Posted on 06/24/2004 3:59:23 AM PDT by carl in alaska
Anti-choice Democrats don't want the people to have the option of voting for Ralph Nader. So they're trying to toss him from the ballot.
Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for the national party, said Democrats would start in Arizona with a challenge to the validity of thousands of signatures that landed Nader on the ballot.
Cabrera made it clear that the orchestrated attack was payback for Nader's contribution to Al Gore's defeat in 2000 and a pre-emptive strike to keep him from undermining John Kerry in November.
"We have never been moved by Nader's repeated assertions that it was Al Gore and not he who was at fault for the outcome of the 2000 election, and apparently the Arizona Democrats seems unconvinced by his explanation as well," Cabrera admitted to the Associated Press.
Stu Rothenberg, editor of Rothenberg Political Report, told the Christian Science Monitor: "I think Nader is scaring the bejeebies out of the Democrats. They have nightmares of 2000 all over again."
Nader noted that the attacks against him had "a lot of mischief potential" because "there are very partisan Democrats" in the Arizona secretary of state's office.
"If this becomes a pattern of harassment in other states, we will ask John Kerry to disown and disapprove of these anti-democratic tactics," said Nader, who still hasn't learned that "democratic" is all too often an antonym for "Democratic."
'Exciting'
Meanwhile, black Democrats in Congress had a nasty row Tuesday with Nader when he rejected their demands that he quit the race.
"Shouts could be heard from inside the meeting in the basement of the U.S. Capitol with more than a dozen Congressional Black Caucus members, including Nader's voice, in what proved to be a rancorous session. One female shouted, 'You can't win,' to which Nader shot back an inaudible response," AP reported today.
Caucus chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., fumed: "It became abundantly clear to us that this was about Ralph Nader and we were sorely disappointed."
Osama bin Laden's favorite House member, Barbara Lee of California, moaned, "I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush."
Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., complained, "Clearly his candidacy hurts our chances for the Democratic Party."
The hapless Nader, who has colluded with Kerry and boasted that he will help defeat President Bush, shrugged off the shouting match as an "exciting exchange" between two anti-Bush forces.
"They feel passionately about their strategy, and we feel passionately about our strategy," said the alleged independent, who bragged that he would serve as a "second front" against Bush during the campaign.
Nader's running mate, Green Party activist Peter Camejo, had condescending words for the black Democrats. He said he was "surprised by their lack of understanding of the growing trend towards independent action. It's a new phenomenon they're confronting."
Bump for Nader. Go Ralph Go! You can do it. You can get 3% of the vote and stick it to all those Dimocrat Congressmen who are bought and paid for by trial lawyers. Go get 'em Ralph.
Osama bin Laden's favorite House member, Barbara Lee of California, moaned, "I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush."
Dumb as the Rats are, they have this one figured correctly. The same is true on the other side of the spectrum. Then again, the other side is equally dumb.
$710.96.. The price of freedom.
You know, even if Nader gets 1 to 2% of the vote, that could be devastating for Kerry in the key battelground states. You gotta love Nader's rugged individualism. He just looks at those Dimocrat trial lawyers, smiles and thinks to himself...."Hey f### off you corrupt little propagandist for greedy lawyers."
These Democrats sound like a bunch of school children throwing a fit. Grow up already....Go Nader and may the force be with you!
Nobody can destroy people like the democrats. It is one of the few things they are good at, other than demagoguing and convincing people they are perpetual victims.
You can't vote unless you vote for them.
You can't be a judge unless you allow murder of the innocents.
Your vote won't be counted if you are in the armed forces.
What Reagan labeled as the Evil Empire now applies to the Democrat Party.
Gee, they are using the same tactics and techniques on the Nader forces that they used on the Service Personnel in 2000!
How can a party who stacks the deck to ensure a hack like Kerry gets the nomination turn around and be upset about somebody else not respecting the seriousness of their endeavor...
Maybe a small donation to Naders defense fund is need. How about it freepers? Wouldn't it be worth a few bucks to see Nader on the ballot in Nov? Then we would be on his mailing list & we could see all the lunacy his campaign sends out.
Yes the Demo-brats sound more like Stalinists every day. The statements they're making in this debate over WMD in Iraq are just amazingly deceptive and inaccurate and show an astonishing lack of understanding of the threat from WMD. The Demo-brats are rapidly turning into a gang of propagandists who distort the truth and say anything to win an election. Then if they win they often do amazing flip-flop reversals of their positions when they actually have to govern in the real world. They're just appalling these days and I think their dishonesty and deceptiveness is going to cost them a lot of defeats in the November election, including Kerry's defeat by GWB.
I heard Kerry is now a big Kyoto supporter. Is that true or merely rumor?
They "ass-ume" that the Nader voters would actually vote for Kerry. A Rat is a Rat is a Rat, they can never take responsibility for their own failures, it's always someone elses fault when they lose.
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