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

[Michael Dawson]

Nader should have come out of the 2000 election screaming his lungs out
about Gore's failure to reach out to us, and about the scandal of the
Electoral College existing.  Instead, he went into hibernation.  He is to
blame for much of his present obscurity.  And I say this as a big admirer of
him.

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Joe Smith
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 7:35 AM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Irony of the Anybody But Nader Campaign

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.

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