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...This leaves Nader in line with the facts, but still guilty by implication of saying that the choice between Bush and Gore will not address major issues. Yet the issues where the choice is most important--the future of a woman's right to choose, of environmental protection and consumer safety and of increasing limits on corporate influence on elections and lawmaking--are exactly the issues Nader claims to be running...
...challenge on abortion rights stands by itself, but a more general point about the Supreme Court is relevant: If Nader believes in the use of the federal government to fight for manufacturer liability and other forms of regulation in potentially private concerns, how he can not agree that Gore will be better on many major as well as minor issues...
...Nader victory now will not necessarily help the Green Party in four years. If this is all about the 5 percent, the experience of the Reform Party should also provide a poignant example. This year, Pat Buchanan had the opportunity to blow $26 million dollars that equally fervent Ross Perot supporters won for the Reform Party in 1996 by garnering 7 percent of the vote. Reporting at the Reform Party convention(s) in Long Beach, found old-time Reformers flabbergasted by the way Buchanan could bring his hard-line Republican supporters into their party in search of money. Some...
...There are no such thing as Nader supporters. As a final point, I think we all need to think about who exactly is behind Ralph Nader and why. Yes, there is a small, dedicated Green Party group, who really believe in the positions of the party, but even Nader wasn't among them when they approached him to run for President. For Nader and most of his supporters, the campaign is about a protest vote about Gores blandness, about a good economy and about the Left losing its vote...
...Bill Clinton pulled the Democratic Party to the right; yes, Gore is not the most inspiring political leader of all time. Perot voters, disaffected Democrats, I feel your pain. Gore and Lieberman are not the leaders of Americas political left--but neither is Ralph Nader or the Green Party, liberals that they are. They just aren't leaders...