<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] the other L word</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br> By the way, Nader (Princeton '55, Harvard Law '58) running against<br> "the liberal intelligentsia" and his supporters on the Yale faculty<br> using "the other L word" as an epithet remind me of Bush 41 running<br> against Dukakis as a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Is this what<br> Moyniahan once called "boob bait for the bubbas"?<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Doug<br> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>In a word, I would say yes, that's exactly what he is doing.  Though I would imagine Nader's contempt for the LI derives from the Chomsky-Vidal side rather than the nativist right.  But he is surely aware of the possibilities for forging a coalition of these elements, if not the dangers.</div> <div><br></div> <div>That's a cue to Chip, of course.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Will it succeed?  I doubt it, but it would certainly be interesting if it did.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Best,</div> <div><br></div> <div>John</div> <div><br></div> <div>P.S. As for my culinary preferences-that's alas a matter of public record</div> <div><font face="Charcoal" color="#000000">http://old.newhavenadvocate.com/bestof02/staf.html</font ></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> </body> </html>