I made assertions which I backed up with evidence. The only evidence you provide to back up your convictions is your own confidence in their truth. Well, that is quite inadequate. Lieberman was not know for being a “war-monger” at the time of the 2000 election and regardless the office of the VP holds little power unless the president sees fit to cede decision making.

Furthermore, it is willfully ignorant thinking to conclude that Gore would have invaded Iraq. The Clinton/Gore administration showed no appetite for invasion despite conducting an ongoing air war against Hussein. Nothing in Gore’s record indicates that he wished for a unilateral invasion, whereas much of Bush’s pre-election rhetoric did signal this intention.

You also write: “There is a false equivalency between the actions of Bush/Cheney and the running of public citizen Nader for president. You need to clarify these things into your prejudiced and regressive posting.”

I detect some confusion in your post about what the term ‘false-equivalency’ means. The definition of false-equivalency refers to an argument which seeks to make equal and the same two things which are not. I use it to refer to your idea that Republicans and Democrats are the same (i.e. “Republocrats”–very clever by the way).

You seem to be using the term to state that there is no equivalency between Bush/Cheney and a mythical Nader administration. It’s an obvious point and a red-herring besides. Of course a Nader presidency would not have been the same thing as the Bush presidency. What you can’t seem to grasp is that Nader had no more chance of being president than you did. Even Nader understood this. As I demonstrated in my previous post, he was actively trying to prevent Gore from being president so that the “Revolution” would finally be brought on by a progressive population pushed to the brink. That was his disgusting strategy, and it tells any rational person all they need to know about his fitness for the office should the dog ever miraculously catch the mechanical rabbit.

That you still pine for the Nader administration that you believe could have been tells everyone how deeply out of touch you actually are.

The major point tho, is even when Gore had Vint’s endorsement, even when he was (is) getting ridiculed for something he never said, his campaign was unable to turn the whole situation to their advantage. Gore 2000 was a mismanaged mess. It should have never come down to Florida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

Nader’s correct here, ANYONE can run for President, we don’t belong to the parties, and I personally don’t have to/don’t want to, wear anyone’s label. We should thank him for making that point, you will never hear it from the political establishment.

This is just a structural consequence of our election procedures: if any major party too long ignores the concerns of a faction of its coalition, then that coalition will bolt to a third party and cost that major party an election.

des/de/mona

Mr Nader, I’ve been watching and listening to you since I was a little kid in the 60′s. I thought you were a nut then, and at 57 my opinion hasn’t changed, but I will say, America would be poorer without you. You are indeed a man of purpose who against great opposition has always stayed true to the vision in your head.

Ralph Nader tells the truth and a legenday consumer advocate who saved thousands of lives through his public service; if this country listened to him and not put up with professional politicians like Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush, our country would be far better off.
It was Bush who put us into war; and I am all too confident that Gore would have gone the same route what with his war-mongering VP choice Mr. Joe Liebermann. I suspect millions would have been dead.

There is a false equivalency between the actions of Bush/Cheney and the running of public citizen Nader for president. You need to clarify these things into your prejudiced and regressive posting. The country is in bad shape with your vile, polluted, and sickening thinking. The Democrats love you while they sell this country down the toilet.

You are the type of person who would prevent another person for running for office just because he is not a member of the established Republicrat party.

Ralph Nader’s legacy is one of a truth-telling, safe cars, cleaner air, serving the public sentiment, activism, peace, justice, environmentalism, and exposing corruption from the professional two-party dictatorship this country suffers from, and one of which your ignorance perpetuates and enables.

Please continue to fight Mr. Nader. You are a national treasure and a modern day Abraham Lincoln