Reply #172: Smear by association is a logically cheap tactic.

[Political Heretic]

What Nader thinks or does not think is irrelevant.

The fact is accurate and true about the corporate influence over the majority of politicians, regardless of party, in Washington. No one is seriously disputing that. Those who do, typically spokespersons for the corporate lobby, have no facts on their side, while the rest of us have the simple ledgers of the multi billions of dollars of corporate bribe money that goes into the pockets of the majority of Washington politicians.

As to the rest, I'm not campaigning for economic collapse and social chaos. I'm simply not afraid to admit that the hope of the kind of extreme political and social change we need seems increasingly unlikely to happen by simply voting for the right politician (or any stripe) or calling congress right "effing now."

Just because I feel that way, does not mean that I automatically think just voting for some third party candidate matters a damn. I certainly do not.

So you can take your "let's try and connect PH to Nader and then smear by association" nonsense and stow it. Thank you.