Posted on 09/16/2004 2:08:20 AM PDT by TechnicalEcstacy
When is Nader gonna get into the mix? Okay, a stupid question. But if Nader could at least participate in the debates, I think he could potentially siphon away quite a few Kerry votes. Way more than one would guess is possible. Most people aren't even aware of a third choice. And I have to admit, if I was a lib, I would gravitate towards Nader. At least the guy stands by his principles.
There are conditions that one must meet before being able to participate in the debates. One such rule is that they must have support from a certain percentage of the electorate (I forget if it's 5% or 15%). So, in short, Ralph won't be there.
Wasn't he in one of the 2000 debates? Maybe my mind is slipping.
Anyway, I don't think its more than 5%. I just seem to remember Nader being a bit more involved in the 2000 election.
My daughter told me yesterday that a lot of her friends at college(University of Ky.) are going to vote for Nader if they are not already voting for Bush.
http://captainnormal.typepad.com/captainnormal/2004/10/if_youre_voting.html
George Bush's record on civil rights is so abysmal that his supporters are already pushing to censor a damning report card from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Hardly the "gentleman's C" that sufficed at Yale, Bush's grade from the independent, bipartisan commission on race matters is an indictment worthy of an outright F.
It was just about this time 4 years ago that the NAALCP ran the "Bush was behind the wheel" when James Byrd was dragged to his beheading death in Jasper, Texas ad.Did the NAACP EVER apologize for this BS smear ad against Bush !?!?!:
October 31, 2000
Liberal Dirty Tricks Ignored
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is now airing an ad that seeks to exploit black fears of white crime. Actually, that’s too kind. Over black and white video of a pickup truck dragging a chain, the daughter of Texas dragging death victim James Byrd declares, "So when Gov. George W. Bush refused to sign hate crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again."
Gov. Bush is being tied directly to a vicious racist lynching. And from Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, Shaw & Co. -- not a peep. Clearly this is the most unfair, divisive, and repugnant ad in many moons, and it’s met with silence? At the very least, if the media were truly disinterested observers of the campaign and truly interested in the appearance of balance, they could draw an easy parallel between the Horton and Byrd spots for their hallowed "Ad Watch" pieces. But that would be false parity. Nothing Gov. Bush did led to Byrd’s death, and under Gov. Bush, two of his assailants will be put to death, while the furlough program under Gov. Dukakis allowed the release of Horton to commit more violent crimes.
But the media did something worse than sheer silence. They are portraying Bush as the villain of last-minute negative advertising, bringing the public’s attention to a different ad, a strange reproduction of Lyndon Johnson’s outrageous 1964 "Daisy" ad that suggested Barry Goldwater would lead America into nuclear war. The copycats behind this silliness tried the two-wrongs-make-a-right strategy, suggesting Chinese espionage under Clinton-Gore could lead to nuclear war.
The ad buy was tiny – just $60,000 – but the media gave it millions of dollars worth of airplay. Why the rush to this mysterious ad? An Associated Press story on October 27 began: "The Gore campaign said a new Republican attack advertisement modeled after the infamous ‘Daisy’ commercial...is a ‘desperate tactic’ by conservatives to help George W. Bush." While the AP promoted the "Daisy" ad story today as "top news," they did not report on the NAACP ad. It didn’t matter that the NAACP boasted of spending $2 million, not $60,000, on their advertising attack.
Unless you are a political newbie, that's a dumb question.
Buchanan had Perot's matching fundsin 2000 and they would not let him participate.
At least one 3rd party candidate is presently on the ballot in more states than Nader and he won't be there either.
If you are a newbie, I'm sorry you had to find out it's a fixed game.
Now don't rush in to denial, just retch a few times and pretend you are still a political virgin. That's SOP for those that bother to vote.
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