Reply #38: Well friend, you stated it yourself, Nader is staying in the race

[MadHound]

Therefore, those who would vote for him must be wooed away by Democratic compromise. If you simply ignore Nader, you risk losing those votes. FDR faced a similar dilema in his first re-election bid, and he compromised to get the Sociallist vote. Guess what FDR's compromise was, Social Security and Unemployment insurance.

You can source my 600,000 registered Dem and self described liberal vote in Greg Palast's book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". He has the source for the figure in his notes at the end of the book, but since I'm currently not at home, I can't tell you where he got that figure.

Compromise friend, it is a time honored tradition in the big tent Democratic party, are you so foolish or arrogant as to not use it now that the time for compromise has come? Would you doom the party and the country to please your own stiff necked pride? Who is being elitist now?