JUST LIKE JASON WITH HIS CHAINSAW,NADER THE TRAITOR IS BACK.John "The Player" McCain and the Republican Party are overjoyed at the news and are dancing in the street.Democrats mostly feel embarrassed for Ralph Nader, the beloved 1960's icon whose ego is responsible for eight long years of Bush-Chaney misrule. Now at age 74 Nader announced yet another vanity-driven presidential campaign. Maybe he's trying to match the number of Sylvester Stallone's Rambo sequels.Both are equally painful to watch: two old men unable to let go, stuck in the past like quicksand. The question is will progressives fall for this again and help the Republicans like they did in 2000?My guess is many will.If you are one of them, consider this before you vote for the traitor.In 2000, running in the Green Party, Nader promised he was running to build the Green Party, not using the party as his vehicle to get on the ballot. He didn't tell the truth. He promised to use his candidacy not only to build the party but also to continue to organize Greens into a real movement after the election. Again he was untruthful. After the 2000 election he just walked away. That he's now running as an independent proves his duplicity. If Nader truly wanted to get his progressive message to millions, he would have run in the Democratic primaries and used all the televised debates as his forum. That's what Kucinich responsibly did (as an aside, if you have a buck or two send it to Dennis to help his Congressional re-election and send a truly progressive voice back to Washington). In a two party corporate political system, the choice is always between which one of the two will do the most harm and which one will do the least harm to working class Americans. In 2008 the choice is much clearer than usual, and that choice isn't Nader. But the day after Clinton's or Obama's inauguration, let progressives unite and unrelentingly push the new President to make good on every campaign promise made, then find progressive candidates and organize opposition to any Congressional Jellycrats in the 2010 Democratic primary elections.
Retired on Social Insecurity. Long time grunt in the war on poverty, racism and war itself.
Its the people who keep voting for the corporate candidates that are the traitors. Do you consider every political party that runs a presidential candidate other than the Democratic and Republican parties traitors? Do you believe the Democratic and Republican parties should have a monopoly on the political system? No I'm not going to vote for Nader, but I will vote for Cynthia McKinney.
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Ty Shlackman (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 531 comments)
on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 7:21:19 PM
The Democrats have turned their backs on the liberals to serve their corporate masters. I won't vote for Mr. Nader but I will vote for Miss McKinney and could have voted for Dennis. I see no major difference between the lamestream Democrat candadates for president and the Republicrat offerings. They all lick the boots of corporate masters. I for one will not waste my vote on someone who doesn't serve the people of the United States. I am not a traiter, I long ago got tired of politicians saying one thing to get elected and doing something else. Doing so makes that politician a traiter, because the oath of office is not to some business, nor to a sham different political party but to the Constitution. I hope all the officeholders except for a very few get swept out this time. First to go should be Ms. Palosi.
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Robert N Smith (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 64 comments)
on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 8:02:36 PM
Typical Democratic zealot charging Nader with Gore's loss in 2000, among other things.
The Greens and Nader supporters did not help the Republicans. Democratic Party inability to take Tennessee or Arkansas cost that election, but I have yet to hear any Democrat explain that. The favorite son could not even win his own home state. My goodness. And while you are at it can you please explain why over 8 million Reagan Democrats voted for Bush nationally? Bet you won't even try. Easier to blame a non-Dem for Democratic Party failures.
Nader did build the Green Party. We are a real movement and you know it or you would not be posting this inane drivel.
Why in God's name would Nader run in a Democratic Primary? Speak at debates? Your wonderful Democrats did everything possible including threatening arrest, if Nader showed up at debates. What simple rubbish. The Republicans play games with your vote, while the Democrats limit the names you can vote for by driving ballot access out of the reach of other, non-approved, candidates.
Lesser of two evils? Let me see. Nov 2006, right, the DP takes back Congress. And what do they do with that power? Oh yes, they support the misadministration in office. They keep their powder dry. They save their energy for serious investigations like Roger Clemens. They fiddle while Rome burns. Not Republicans. Not Democrats. Just Republirats. No real difference. If you think so, please explain to me why we are still in Iraq. Oh yeah, basically the Dems in Congress support that. Why no universal health care? Right. The Dems won't support that. Impeachment? Pelousi took that off the table, right. Investigations? A few, results, non-existent. Difference between the parties ? Not too damn much. the Dems are as big a part of the problem as the Republicans. New broom.
I won't vote for Nader. McKinney has my support. And neither will I ever vote for a Democrat again and perpetuate or even intensify the mess, given their support for the corporate-governmental process called fascism.
Finally, why the heck would liberals or progressives get behind the Democratic Party again? We have been there in the past and your DLC types have blown us off. "Where else are they going to go?"Finding out now where liberals and progressives are heading, huh? New broom.
Anger? oh yes. The Democratic Party has betrayed America, and the middle and lower classes.
Time to end the tyranny of the two corporate parties.
See you at the voting booth in November.
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Jack Harrington (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 189 comments)
on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 2:58:43 PM
