Party Over Principle: Democrats Going All Scientology on Nader For 11 Years Now

[AlabamaLibrul]

Like he's a suppressive person or something.

Ralph Nader used to be the shit! Remember Unsafe at Any Speed? We used to love that book. At least, before 2000. Now, there are two conflicting "altruisms" about the 2000 election, that is:

a) Bush stole the election

b) Nader made Gore lose the election (presumably, this means Nader got enough Dems' votes to spoil the whole thing, causing Bush to win fair and square)

So what is it? Why so much hate? Why so "fair game"?

Is it the lack of a major party's letter behind his name, which has developed into little more than a cruel joke played on the American public every election cycle? It can't be that, I mean, we've thrown "our own" under the bus before i.e. Stupak, and we've taken in left-leaning independents i.e. Sanders.

So what gives?