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Re: It's All Over...
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:31:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Miller writes:
> Jeremiah VanderMark <doggybot_37@yahoo.nospam.com> wrote:
> > everything. Who'd have thought that a vote for Nader really *was* a vote for
> > Bush...
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> 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.
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> A vote for Nader is *not* chosing the lesser of two evils.
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 failed to reach out to a constituency as large as Clinton's, then
really it's his fault. If the Democrats couldn't find a way to humanise him
(or anyone better to run for President) then it's their fault too.
What I can't believe is that no-one really pointed out what seems obvious an
ocean away about Bush: that he's a smirking, lazy jerk, a good-times
glad-hander who can hardly put a sentence together because he's always had
someone to do it for him. I never understood the charm of Reagan myself, but
at least it was vaguely plausible. But Dubya??
--DaveL
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Low writes: <snip> (...) Very true. Gore *should* have destroied Bush. He made several missteps along the way and I personally think he should have enlisted the help of Clinton more. Just about everyone I know, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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