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Ralph Nader: The Tugboat Candidate

by Roger Simon

Let's get one thing straight: Ralph Nader did not cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000. The people who voted for Ralph Nader cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000.

Gore lost to George W. Bush by 537 votes in Florida, a state where Nader got 97,448 votes.

And there is a phenomenon to describe casting a vote you later regret: It's called what we do every four years.

Nader is completely unrepentant. He totally rejects and is insulted by the label "spoiler."

He ...

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Posted by: richard patten
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Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:17 AM

Thank You, Mr Simon, for something positive about our contemporary Gadfly, who most media, including yourself on Dobbs, are telling to shut up and go sit in the corner. At least it's not as bad as for the old greek gadfly, Socrates, who kept nagging about stupid, thoughtless social and economic Greek habits until they put him in prison and then to death.

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