[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for theBattleground States

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane Mage" <shmage at pipeline.com>


-M. Pugliese gives us a list of right-wing scoundrels who (if the
-list is accurate, something not to be accepted on faith) have
-proven themselves far better guardians of the people's
-democratic rights than the Official Leftists, Liberals, and
-other Kerrycrats.
-Shane Mage

Ah yes, Shane Mage, Sproul & Associates and various other rightwing
supporters of Nader know more about the public good than Noam Chomsky, the
AFL-CIO, the NAACP and 99.9% of progressive activists that are supporting
John Kerry.

That you show no embarassment about the illegal activity behind those
supporting Nader from the right shows how much you belong with George Bush
in his "faith-based community" of zealots.  That Nader supporters and the
GOP are allied in this election is more than just tactical convenience-- 
they share a fundamentally ideological view of the world that brooks no
compromise or discussion with others as to strategy or course of action.

Just as the Bushites support unilaterial action in Iraq without
consultation with allies of any form, the Naderites see unilateral action
in the election as their god-given right where no consultation or deference
to the views of other progressive allies need be considered.

Nathan Newman



Herakleitos of Ephesos

>
>http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2004/10/last-nader-article.html
>>...Read about Ralph Nader's supporters. The people he thinks he's
>>using  to force the Democrats to change.
>
>
>* The ultra-conservative Arno Political Consultants firm that has
>directed  ballot-qualification efforts for GOP icons Ronald Reagan,
>George Bush Sr,  Bob Dole, Pete Wilson, and Bob Dornan and whose
>client list features a  virtual Who's Who of the corporate cartels
>and anti-progressive groups  Nader routinely claims to oppose
>(including the National Rifle  Association, U.S. English, the
>California Timber Association, Mobil Oil,  Occidental Petroleum,
>Phillip Morris, Wal-Mart, and numerous Republican  Party committees).
>
>* Arno's Florida-based subcontractors JSM Inc. that directed
>illegal,  deadbeat petition drives on behalf of Ralphie in numerous
>states,  including West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Criminal
>charges are now  pending against their shady solicitors in several
>states.
>
>* The ultra-conservative former executive director of the Arizona
>Republican Party Nathan Sproul, a major GOP fundraiser, along with
>former  Republican AZ Governor Fife Symington's attorney Lisa
>Hauser, associated  with numerous other rightwing causes. Nathan
>Sproul has now been  implicated in Republican voter registration
>fraud in Nevada, Oregon, Ohio,  West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
>
>* George Bush Sr's White House political director Dave Carney, owner
>of  the ultra-conservative Norway Hill Associates consultant firm -
>that  provided illegal, in-kind contributions to St. Ralph's ballot
>campaigns.
>
>* The shady Choices for America rightwing nonprofit, founded by
>Nevada-based GOP apparatchik Steve Wark, scheming to prop up
>Ralphie's  ballot drives and funnel donations from other
>conservatives.
>
>* The Michigan Republican Party that collected 45,000 signatures to
>qualify St. Ralph for that ballot, then cast aside all pretense to
>intervene with a lawsuit on behalf of their proxy. The Wisconsin
>Republican Party, that orchestrated an underground petition drive
>masquerading as 'progressive' Naderites.
>
>* Former GOP Arkansas state senator Doyle Webb II, chief of staff to
>state  Republican Party chairman Win Rockefeller, the state's
>lieutenant  governor; GOP state Rep. Michael Lamoureaux; Little Rock
>GOP chairwoman  Martha McCaskill; five minions of the Republican
>Party's coordinated  campaign; and former state GOP chairwoman
>Phyllis Kincannon - just a  snippet of Nader petitioners in one
>state.
>
>* The radical-right Oregon Family Council along with chapters of the
>reactionary Citizens for a Sound Economy both in that state and
>various  others across the nation.
>
>* George W. Bush 2000 Florida recount lawyer Ken Sukhia who along
>with the  chairman of the Florida Republican Party maneuvered
>Ralphie onto that  ballot.
>
>* Buchananite Reform Party Chairman Shawn O'Hara, outspoken,
>revisionist  defender of Samuel Bowers, former Imperial Wizard of
>the KKK in  Mississippi.
>
>* Innumerable Republican Party lackeys and minions (such as Colorado
>Republican Party Treasurer Richard Westfall and former Virginia
>Republican  Party offical Jim Polk) who have orchestrated St.
>Ralph's campaigns in  various states or otherwise twisted the law on
>his behalf (e.g.,  hyperpartisan Jeb! elections whore Glenda Hood).
>
>* And, finally, we can add the insidious backers of the Swift Boat
>Veterans for 'Truth' malevolent smear campaign against John Kerry's
>heroic  service in Vietnam, who are also fundraising for their
>sketchy bedfellow  Ralph Nader...
>
>
>
>--
>Michael Pugliese
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