Ralph Nader: "Spoiler" is a "bigoted word" used by the two parties that have "spoiled" our system

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Nader's pimping another run, and mentioned a Website where he wants people to go in order to get him on the ballot.

Chris Jansing (MSNBC) asked him if he understands that some people see him as a "spoiler."

He said "Spoiler is a bigoted word used by the two parties that have spoiled our political system."

F.U.R.N.

[HappyMe]

1. *sigh!*

Don't go away mad, Ralph. Just GO AWAY!

F.u.r.n. indeed.

[Liberal Veteran]

2. I give his potential run a Michelle Bachmann "yay".

Which translates to a "meh" for me.

[nanabugg]

3. OK, trash me, but Nader makes me want to throw up! His sick gift to us was Bush!!

OK, Nader raiders...have at me but you can't change history!

[G_j]

10. but you can rewrite it nt

[libinnyandia]

4. Can anyone tell me one positive thing that Nader's 2000 campaign produced?

[trumad]

5. Fuck Nader.

[hifiguy]

6. Does anyone care what this pathetic pissant thinks

any more?

Thanks for eight years of the Chimp, asshole.

[RockaFowler]

7. He's a douche

And an idiot

Is he saying this now about his BFF Ron Paul, too??

[MineralMan]

8. Bye, Ralph.

Write a book or something. You're irrelevant, now.

[dionysus]

12. one too many strokes for that idiot....

[G_j]

9. the two parties have spoiled the political system

obviously

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. "Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, 1795.

[iverglas]

13. oh good grief

Is it not enough that opponents of policies that permit firearms to be carried around in public by one and all are now constantly (and even here at DU) being assailed with this "bigot" nonsense -- now an expression of an opinion about a political issue is to be called bigotry too??

Not that I necessarily agree wtih the opinion in question.

I'm a 40+ year member of a "third party" here in Canada. The Liberal Party here blows long and hard about how we're the spoilers, preventing them from getting their rightful seats and majority in the House. This year, we are the second party, the official opposition, and the Liberals are probably still whining about how we denied them their due and left them sitting as a rump at the far end of the chamber.

While there are many things I have called the Liberals who sing this sad refrain (including here at DU in the Canada forum for the last decade), it has never occurred to me to call them bigots.

indeed.



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[SidDithers]

14. Fuck Ralph Nader...nt

Sid

[Lex]

15. Ralph Nader is regarded as a has-been and a joke at this point, I'd say.

Like that comedian Pat Paulsen who used to run for President.

[hifiguy]

18. The differences are that Pat Paulsen knew it was a joke

and was funny. Nader has been suffering from delusions of relevancy for 25 years or more.

[demosincebirth]

19. ...but Paulsen wasn't serious. Nader is delusional and serious.

[hifiguy]

20. Exactly - Paulsen was playing it for laughs,

not seriously. Nader, OTOH, should be buried in a shroud of his own self-righteous bullshit.

[bowens43]

16. says the babbling idiot who put W in the oval office....

Hey Nader sit down and STFU

[LoZoccolo]

17. His original plan was to get someone to run against Obama in the primary.

That never panned out, so why do this?

[mac56]

21. "Bigoted"?

[arthritisR_US]

22. He never lacks for hyperbole. n/t

[mdmc]

23. ..

[white_wolf]

24. He's right. The two party system is a joke.

I don't see how anyone can support it. It needs to be done away with. It's an outdated relic.

[Nye Bevan]

32. So start a party. Nobody's stopping you.

It's not so much that we support "the two party system" here on DU. It's more that we support the Democratic party.

[white_wolf]

34. Oh please you know as well as I do that the system is rigged-

to ensure that no party besides the Democrats or Republicans are able to gain any significant numbers on the national stage.

[Ikonoklast]

25. Everyone please take note of the new acronym, F.U.R.N.

Thank You, Amerigo Vespucci, yet once again you are showing the way.


F.U.R.N.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. I'm here to protect and serve

[mdmc]

27. ..

[SidDithers]

28. Fuck Ralph Nader...nt

Sid

[mdmc]

31. 3/1 du'ers prefer

peace

[Quantess]

29. As angry and resentful as I am/was at Nader,

he is right. Our political system needs serious revamping. We need a major overhaul.

The 2 party system is stale and unproductive.

[Comrade Grumpy]

30. I don't care who said it. He's right.

Our currently existing and largely dysfunctional party system is not set in stone or preordained by God. Political parties aren't granted power; they have to earn it. People are free to vote for whomever they want.

Parties that fail to adapt to changing times become obsolete.

I vote for Democrats not because I'm enamored of their watere-down principals and corporate-friendly policies, but because they are less bad than Republicans.

This is a political party system that badly needs to be spoiled.

Go, Whigs!

[baldguy]

33. No Ralph, in a "winner take all" system like ours, it's designed that way.

If you really want it to change, campaign for Instant Run-off Voting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_run-off_voting