Sunday, February 22, 2004
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FIGURES DON'T LIE, BUT LIARS DO
I watched Ralph Nader announcing his candidacy for President (as an Independent, not Green Party this time) and could hear the Republicans high-fiving across the country. How asinine it was for Nader to try to deny responsibility for Bush's election by saying that he was just one of several non-mainstream parties and that as he took from Gore, others took from Bush.
The facts are these: Bush won Florida by 537 votes; Nader got 97,488 votes in Florida; Buchanan (Reform Party) got 17,484 votes. If Bush got 100% of Buchanan's votes and Gore got 20% of Nader's votes, Gore would have been elected. You want the national totals? Nader - 2,834,410 votes; Buchanan - 446,743 votes. For Nader to sit there and say he was not responsible for Bush's election makes him a liar, in my opinion.
Get your head back into the daylight, Ralph. I don’t doubt your sincerity in the changes you would like to see, but by helping the Republicans gain and maintain leadership, you are working against your own causes.
I watched Ralph Nader announcing his candidacy for President (as an Independent, not Green Party this time) and could hear the Republicans high-fiving across the country. How asinine it was for Nader to try to deny responsibility for Bush's election by saying that he was just one of several non-mainstream parties and that as he took from Gore, others took from Bush.
The facts are these: Bush won Florida by 537 votes; Nader got 97,488 votes in Florida; Buchanan (Reform Party) got 17,484 votes. If Bush got 100% of Buchanan's votes and Gore got 20% of Nader's votes, Gore would have been elected. You want the national totals? Nader - 2,834,410 votes; Buchanan - 446,743 votes. For Nader to sit there and say he was not responsible for Bush's election makes him a liar, in my opinion.
Get your head back into the daylight, Ralph. I don’t doubt your sincerity in the changes you would like to see, but by helping the Republicans gain and maintain leadership, you are working against your own causes.
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