Reply #61: Well, gee, what about the other two factors I mentioned?

[MadHound]

I can understand your mistrust of From, I don't put much stock in him either, but I threw that out there for the DLC worshippers around here. However you aren't addressing the other two issues I brought up, the 600,000 votes Gore and his campaign pissed away due to sucking up to BP Oil over Gulf drilling, and the Votescam issue that Gore and his campaign sat on. Two golden opportunities to win the election wasted. What is your response to those?

And again, I find it absolutely astounding the amount of power(and the consequent blame) that Nader haters assign to Ralph. Get a clue, Nader only pulled down 1.6% of the vote in Florida, and only 2.74% of the vote nationwide! Meanwhile, 13% of registered Dems in Florida voted for Bush! Hello, how can you expect Gore to win if he can't even hold onto his base. Yet somehow this is all Nader's fault:eyes: Give me a break!

I'm sorry, but I find this whole exercise in scapegoating to be completly counter-productive. It puts the blame on the wrong man, and allows those who truly bear the blame for the loss, Gore and his handlers, off scot free. It also prevents the type of soul searching and introspection the party needs to correct the faults that led to the defeat. And if you don't correct the faults, ie sucking up to corporate America, rigged elections etc., then as we see in '04, they'll happen again and again until they are corrected.

It is time for the Nader haters to wake up and drop this game. It wrongs an innocent man, and will continue to lose us elections until the hard questions are answered by the DLC and the Democratic party.