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August 12, 2004
Nader | Ralph Nader's Curious New Allies

From the JewishPress.com:

Ralph Nader’s latest run for president has been much more negatively received than his 2000 attempt. A prominent criticism in the anti-Bush fever-swamps is that the damage Nader could cause this time by draining Democratic votes would not only be epic, but inversely proportional to the value of his political career. Certainly his critics are on to something with this last bit — Nader, once an impressive and prolific activist, seems to have been transformed into an oblivious gadfly bent on undermining the movement he ostensibly cares about.

Few people realize, though, just how precipitous Nader’s fall has been. Driven into a corner by both his lousy political gamesmanship and the tectonic redefinition by 9/11 of the ideological playing field, Nader has begun to flirt with something that has been embraced by so many on the Left: anti-Semitism.

Wow. Them’s fightn’ words.



Posted by Alan at August 12, 2004 08:32 AM | TrackBack
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whew..what a read ..I get the feel for a subplot in the piece..could it be that there is a attempt to give Nader a bad rap ,to what reason ? Thats right Virgina theres something afoot here.

Posted by: Rob_NC [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 09:10 AM

The simplest explanation for Nader is the correct one: he’s a political religionist, a zealot, and as such he can’t abide by the apostasy committed by more moderate leftists as they inch back from the Holy Alter of Statist Truth.

But let’s face it folks, we’re not talking here about Ross Perot taking every fifth vote cast, we’re talking mostly about like-minded leftist religionists who probably wouldn’t vote at all if Ralph weren’t running. Will he take some votes from Kerry? Yes, but they will be few, and quite frankly if Kerry doesn’t have what it takes to stand up to the “onslaught” of a candidate that probably won’t even make it onto the ballot of the majority of states, then would he reallly deserve to be President anyway?

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 02:29 PM

“embraced by so many on the Left: anti-Semitism.”

Bullshit.

Posted by: Lakhim [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 03:15 PM

Truth hurts, doesn’t it Lakhim!

Examples are France and all Arab countries. They are economic socialists and economic failures. Then they try to blame the Jews for their complete inferiority.

Typical of the left!

Posted by: leaddog2 [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 05:13 PM

Wow.

I just Googled the “Pupeteer” quote. It’s been posted on everywhere from freerepublic.com to irsraelnn.com to antiwar.com to whiterevolution.com.

Holy Shit…

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 12, 2004 05:21 PM

Virgina? Nice, Rob.

Posted by: j [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 13, 2004 03:02 AM

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