Ralph Nader on the Conservative Idiot List???? [View All]

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First, let me say right now that I intend on voting for the Democrat candidate. There simply is too much at stake right now to vote for Nader like I would have done in 2000 had I been 18.

That said, I'm both shocked and extremely dissapointed to see the DU place Ralph Nader in the top two slots (!) on this week's conservative idiot list. Yeah, some here would argue he's leeching the liberal votes from us, but maybe that is because we, the Democrat party, have been a tad soft when taking Bush and the corporate Republicans head-on, and even more importantly, because we have had a track record since the 2000 elections of agreeing with the Republicans way too much. The PATRIOT ACTs? Voted in unanimously. The IWR? About half of the Democratic congressional and Senatorial membership - including John Kerry and John Edwards - went right along with it, with some like our 2000 VP candidate Joe Lieberman actively cheering the war on. During the 2002 elections, only one Democratic senator openly objected to the IWR during their elections, and we know what happened to Paul Wellstone.

Ralph's candidacy shouldn't provoke the Democrats to start spewing at one of our greatest dissenting reformers alive. He's not our enemy. Our enemy, as I said in one of my early posts, hides in an undisclosed bunker.