DemocratSinceBirth
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:42 AM
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The independent candidate who helped swing the 2000 election to Bush isn't much of a factor this time. Among 1,573 likely voters, he was backed by 9.
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:44 AM
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1. Bill Maher said on his show the other night he voted for Nader in 2000 |
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And he and Michael Moore were on their knees to him a while ago on one of his shows begging him to drop out.
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:52 AM
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9. He has the "doll" vote wrapped up. Barbie is undecided. |
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:44 AM
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2. It sure went right for us. Badnarik will get more votes than Nader I bet. |
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And they'll all be from Bush!!
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:46 AM
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He was backed by the gop, he and his message are tired and not practical, He is seen as a spoiler and a has been. Just exactly what has this clown accomplished in the last 20 years anyway? Who pays his bills?
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:48 AM
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4. Well then, he should be no threat to Kerry whatsoever |
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:49 AM
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5. the ralphy 9 - massive ego must now be in crisis |
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:50 AM
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6. The saddest thing (for him) |
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is that both his ego and his plan to build a real third party will be horribly crushed in 36 hours.
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:50 AM
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8. His Goal Is To See If He Can Top Buchanan's .05% |
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:50 AM
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7. That's 0.57%, or one out of every 175 voters |
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More people like convenience store greasy hot dogs than vote for Ralph Nader!
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Mon Nov-01-04 12:55 AM
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There will be some sort of political skullduggery from the Bush team where it looks like he beats Kerry in a battleground state by those 9 votes. :)
Just kidding!
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Mon Nov-01-04 01:07 AM
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11. don't beat on him too hard |
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I think the key event of his campaign was the rejection by the Green Party in late June. After that I think he understood that times had changed. I think it thwarted his egotistical ambitions and was a return to integrity by the Green Party- away from the power lust of the 2000 campaign.
The Reform Party label is, in my opinion, closer to what he really is: an economic populist and social moderate. It's also why he asked Dean for VP consideration and walked into the Presidential race when Dean dropped out.
But I think June/July made Ralph more honest. The real Greens went over to Kerry during the year and he was left with his Third Party-voting, Republican-leaning, conservative Arab-American supporters. That's who he was talking about in March when he said he took more from Republicans than Democrats. And now I think he's pulled away from just about any policy position that would draw liberal support and has focussed on just this support group. He'll get some 'protest' votes from the politically confused and silly, but drawing about 1.3 million mostly conservative Arab-American votes away from siding in a Culture War and referendum on a corrupt conservative Establishment is a partial redemption.
Of course he can't say any such thing out in the open. But we can live with the effect and occasional odd, fulminating, critique from him. He's trying to redeem himself in the same way Pat Buchanan did (which was killing off the Reform Party in 2000).
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Mon Nov-01-04 01:22 AM
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i swear that if i met him in person it would be hard not to spit.
what a pathetic sack of shit.
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