The Nader Argument Surfaces Again In Regards to Fitrakis
Since Al Gore has released a movie about global warming, two hours of telling us what we already know, the Democrats are now just a little bit angrier that they could have had a reasonable person in the White House.
Forget the fact that Al Gore, as Vice-President, did very little to solve the problem when he actually had the President's ear. Forget the fact that that he couldn't out-smart one of our simpler presidents.
It's all Nader's fault. Keep saying that if that is what you have to believe to sleep at night.
People can point out differences between Nader and your run of the mill Democrat all day and it doesn't matter. Democrats close their ears when people show the daily sell-outs and abandonment of party philosophy by their elected officials. They don't care that Democratic wheels get greased by the same corporations that fund Republican campaigns (Ted Strickland IS receiving more money from big business than Blackwell). Democrats, and perhaps partisan people in general, don't care a lick for ANYTHING that doesn't advance the cause of their precious party. People who identify with a party, upon joining, have accepted the belief that their party is the best thing for the country and will not listen to anything to the contrary, no matter how convincing.
A few Ohio Democrats in the blogosphere realize they have at least a relatively conservative candidate. They're saying things like "hey, we're not going to agree with candidates on everything, but we'll still vote for him because he might win." Strickland will get their votes in spite of his spotty environmental record, his anti-gay position (just said no to domestic partner benefits), his love of guns, and the fact that big business is funding his campaign. And if he loses, it's not his fault for abandoning the values of his party, it's Nade... Fitrakis' fault.
Some are really heating up the anti-third party candidate rhetoric. Most likely because they know Fitrakis is a better candidate--Democrats love to blame everything and everyone but themselves for losses. Speaking of which, do we ever hear Republicans still bashing Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan for having the audacity to run for office? Maybe I just don't pay attention to conservative punditry, but it could just be that they're not as tyrannical when it comes to which citizens gets to run for office. Heck, a lot of them even helped Ralph Nader get on the ballot (they must really love more voices and more choices).
JeanLR over at BSB answered the Nader-bashers well:
Forget the fact that Al Gore, as Vice-President, did very little to solve the problem when he actually had the President's ear. Forget the fact that that he couldn't out-smart one of our simpler presidents.
It's all Nader's fault. Keep saying that if that is what you have to believe to sleep at night.
People can point out differences between Nader and your run of the mill Democrat all day and it doesn't matter. Democrats close their ears when people show the daily sell-outs and abandonment of party philosophy by their elected officials. They don't care that Democratic wheels get greased by the same corporations that fund Republican campaigns (Ted Strickland IS receiving more money from big business than Blackwell). Democrats, and perhaps partisan people in general, don't care a lick for ANYTHING that doesn't advance the cause of their precious party. People who identify with a party, upon joining, have accepted the belief that their party is the best thing for the country and will not listen to anything to the contrary, no matter how convincing.
A few Ohio Democrats in the blogosphere realize they have at least a relatively conservative candidate. They're saying things like "hey, we're not going to agree with candidates on everything, but we'll still vote for him because he might win." Strickland will get their votes in spite of his spotty environmental record, his anti-gay position (just said no to domestic partner benefits), his love of guns, and the fact that big business is funding his campaign. And if he loses, it's not his fault for abandoning the values of his party, it's Nade... Fitrakis' fault.
Some are really heating up the anti-third party candidate rhetoric. Most likely because they know Fitrakis is a better candidate--Democrats love to blame everything and everyone but themselves for losses. Speaking of which, do we ever hear Republicans still bashing Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan for having the audacity to run for office? Maybe I just don't pay attention to conservative punditry, but it could just be that they're not as tyrannical when it comes to which citizens gets to run for office. Heck, a lot of them even helped Ralph Nader get on the ballot (they must really love more voices and more choices).
JeanLR over at BSB answered the Nader-bashers well:
There is a "special level of hell"? "morons"? yeah, that's very helpful.
I won't launch into a history lesson here, but I will say it's high time that honest people took responsibility for what they did and what they left undone. It wasn't Nader that made what should have been a run-away win by Al Gore into a fiasco; and it wasn't Nader's fault that Al Gore's lawyers couldn't argue thier way out of a wet paper bag. Read Vincent Bugliosi's book "The Betrayal of America" for a concise critique of the very sad case brought by Al Gore's team in front of that Supreme Court. At the very least History would have recorded a dignified stand against this coup, instead we have the whitewash of "the system worked" bullsht. The prosecutors in the OJ Simpson trial presented the only worse case.
It is not Nader's fault that so many democrats rolled over and voted in favor of the very Supreme court justices that brought us Bush!!! It's not Nader's fault that all those democrats rolled over time and again voting for the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" Act of 2001', and to approve sweeping war powers to this dubiously elected president.
It wasn't Nader that put Bush in power, it wasn't Nader that gave him those powers, abrogating thier own duties as a Congress to declare war and uphold the Constituion.
OK? so time to move on. This Fritakis guy, more power to him, the more freedom of expression the better. This is about our country and our heritage and our values and our ideals, not about politics. It's about principles~ the sooner democrats learn to speak from the heart~ with passion, not with the ususal pandering, intelligence-insulting bullsht~ the better.
I love the way some Democrats think they own us. They're like parents to four-year olds: "vote for our candidate. Why? Just because- no more questions!"
If Strickland loses it will be his fault and his campaign team's fault. Bottom line. Just look at how much time and money the DNC wasted trying to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot in 2004. And then they wonder why they couldn't get their playboy millionaire elected to the White House.
You're exactly right, Andrew, they will blame everyone and everything but themselves when they lose. And that is essentially why they will keep losing.
Posted by CM Edwards | 10:56 PM