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Re: Nader etc.
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:45:22 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Dan Gillmor <dan () gillmor com> Date: February 21, 2007 12:36:19 PM EST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Nader etc. Brock Meeks says:
Gore got beat because he ran a slip-shod campaign. For crying out loud, he didn't even carry his HOME STATE ofTennessee. Had he done so, the Florida fiasco would have been moot point.I'm just as ticked off as anyone over the Bush debacle, but to pin the loss on Nader, instead of the incompetent Gore campaign, is folly.
It was a combination of factors, and the absence of any of them would have
tipped it to Gore (who did run an ineffective campaign). One of those factors clearly was Nader. Had he not run, Gore surely would have won. Nader didn't elect Bush by himself. But he sure helped. Even a conservative version of Gore would have governed in radicallydifferent ways than Bush. Does anyone here think Gore would have launched an Iraq invasion? Does anyone think he'd have nominated Roberts and Alito for
the Supreme Court? Radically cut taxes for the wealthy? Broadly muzzled scientists for political purposes? Etcetera. For people to keep claiming, as some do here, that there's no serious difference between the parties -- well, that's just delusional. ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/@now Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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