[lbo-talk] Re: Irony of the Anybody But Nader Campaign

[Joe Smith]

Nader does talk about the same set of concerns on non-election years as he
did when he visited Cuba in 2002 (see for example:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cuba0715.html).  The trouble is he doesn't get
press coverage on off-years so we don't hear about it.

joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org>


> On Sep 18, 2004, at 1:27 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Because Nader is not running to be elected but to preach a left-wing
> > gospel that he feels Kerry neglects, he would have campaigned in all
> > these states were he permitted on their ballots.
>
> Excuse me, but this sounds a little nutsy to me. If Nader's purpose is
> to "preach a left-wing gospel," why doesn't he just preach it? He can
> travel all over the country -- it's a free country, after all <g> -- 
> and "preach" whatever he wants. And not just every four years,
> coincidentally at the time of the presidential election, but every day,
> every year.
>
> Yet he pops up every election year to take votes away from the major
> party opponent to the Republican candidate. Otherwise, we never hear
> him.