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Subject: 
Re: It's All Over...
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Date: 
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:40:46 GMT
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Jeremiah VanderMark <doggybot_37@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
> everything. Who'd have thought that a vote for Nader really *was* a vote for
> Bush...

No it's not. Although there is some difference between Gore and Bush,
they're both corporatists, they both want to increase military spending,
they both support the death penalty, etc., etc., etc.

A vote for Nader is *not* chosing the lesser of two evils.

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  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Ah, but you've got to look at the rest of the government right now - Republican Senate and House, and, should Bush win, more Rep judges. That's a big step backwards this country doesn't need. -Jeremiah- (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) I was quite shocked by some of the liberal commentary on this. The two-party (equals one-party) system is pretty entrenched in Australia too, but no-one goes around saying that a vote for a third party is some sort of "betrayal". If Gore (...) (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: It's All Over...
 
(...) Well, it's choosing a totally different sort of evil, one could say. :-) But the basic point that a vote for a third party candidate is a thrown away vote is VERY entrenched in certain circles, and it's wrong. It's extremely unfortunate that (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  It's All Over...
 
That's it. It's over. Bush is the president and the Republicans own everything. Who'd have thought that a vote for Nader really *was* a vote for Bush... Canada, do you think you have room for a defecting American? -Jeremiah- (26 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.us)

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