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...Irony of Nader. Adding a perverse twist to the knife Republicans placed in Al Gore's back is none other than Ralph Nader. The resonance of Nader's rhetoric and the role his candidacy will play in taking down Al Gore's is Exhibit A in the long list of evidence against the functioning of our democracy. Nader assails the concentration of corporate power, which voters correctly identify with. However, his one-issue view lumps Gore and Bush together, obscuring their political differences. The public's inability to dissociate these messages contributes to the perception that there is no difference...
...soundest and most reliable engine in the 2000 campaign belongs to Ralph Nader, who, having no prospect of winning, can run on his ideals. We have always known that the proximity of power may make a person stupid, or at any rate uncivilized - hungry for it in that drooling way that ruins judgment. Nader burns nothing more dangerous than the fumes of his own virtue...
...inventive vote-swapping mechanism on pro-Nader websites to elect Gore and get Nader over 5 percent -- if you live in a swing state, trade your Nader vote for a Gore supporter's in, say, New York -- has been declared an illegal "corruption of the voting process" by California Secretary of State Bill Jones, a Republican. Two of the vote-swapping sites have shut themselves down...
...Despite getting in trouble with MasterCard this summer, Nader rips off another Madison Avenue standard - the Monster.com ad with all the little kids (itself a rip-off of those sanctimonious International Paper spots). "I want to vote for the lesser of two evils... I want to be disillusioned... I want the government to ignore me." Funny stuff from a man who if you turn him off after five minutes can leave a very deep impression...
Hagelin sees Ralph Nader as a partner in the quest to take votes from Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69, but complains Nader's campaign fails to create the "broad-based independent political movement" that is the goal of his Reform Natural Law Coalition...