[IP] Re: Nader etc.

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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 of
> Tennessee.  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 radically
different 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.




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