Ralph Nader "The Tea Party Now Is Basically The Corporatist Wing Of The Republican Party"

[democracy1st]

Run time: 03:57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6k2SOaEWsw   Posted on YouTube: October 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: October 08, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 2711

 
Ralph on Fox..

[Cool Logic]

1. I don't know Ralph, I did some checking and it would appear that the corporate wing of the...

"Corporate Wing" has all sides of the bet covered.

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.php?Bkdn=DemRep&Cycle=2012

[defendandprotect]

3. No -- Nader is saying T-party was once legit -- anti-bail outs/anti-Patriot Act, etal -- but

co-opted by GOP -- actually funded by Koch Bros. which Olbermann mentioned tonight

and run out of Dick Armey's PR firm which guarantees them publicity.

Yes -- both parties are now corporate --

And Koch Bros. was funding the DLC in the Dem Party form more than 20 years -- !!

[Cool Logic]

14. Actually, the GOP establishment abhors the TP...

however, your statement re: both parties are corporate, is dead on.

Elections have become nothing more than a "to the victor goes the spoils system," which always leaves the People out of the equation.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

2. True, with plenty of FOX news propaganda and funding from the Koch Bros...

:hi:

[defendandprotect]

4. Nader also discusses President who can kill at will ... "is a dictator" ...

Un-Constitutional behavior --


Question posed to him by interviewer: "Can Obama be Judge/Jury and Executioner?"

[mzmolly]

5. Is there a non-corporatist wing?

:shrug:

[Enthusiast]

6. Now THAT is the question.

[mzmolly]

7. .

:hi:

[Enthusiast]

9. We gotta stick together, Molly.

[meegbear]

8. Wow! I always thought the Tea Party was an independent group with no political affiliation ...

Thank you Ralph!!1! Thank you for telling something no one in America has been able to figure out!1

:eyes:

[EmeraldCityGrl]

10. Wonder what he was alluding to at the very end

when he said some thing about, "watch and see what Ron Paul is about to do."

[Quixote1818]

11. I caught that too. nt

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. I'm still baffled that Ralph called Palin a populist a few weeks ago

Sarah of Drill, Baby Drill fame.

[democracy1st]

13. he definitely has a different outlook on a few things