Who's seriously going to vote for Nader this time around? Even the leftiest lefty is going to shy away just because they saw what happened in 2000.
How is it that I am a good actor? What I do is I... pretend to be the person Im portraying. Youre confused. Case in point: in Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson comes to me and says I would like you to be Gandalf the Wizard, and I said You are aware that I am not really a wizard? and Peter Jackson said I would like you to use your acting skills to portray a wizard for the duration of the show. So I said Okay and then I said to myself Mmm.. How do I do that? And this is what I did: I imagined that I was a wizard, and then I pretended, and acted, in that way on the stage. How did I know what to say? The words were written down for me in a script. How did I know where to stand? People told me where to stand." -- Sir Ian McKellen, Extras
If Clinton gets the nomination, I could see Nader siphoning votes from her. I think there are more Democrats who won't vote for Clinton than there are who won't vote for Obama.
I voted for Nader in 2000 & 2004 out here in the Heartland. Our state was way Republican anyway so please don't tell me I wasted a vote. I couldn't vote for either Gore or Kerry and Bush scared the Hell out of me. Nader would have made a very inefective President but he wasn't them. Nader is pretty irrelevant and I don't see how he hurts anybody.
And no I wont vote for him again. I can stomach McCain. Romney I just don't trust. Obama is better than Hillary but I could hold my nose and vote for her.
If it comes down to Romney v. Clinton I don't know if I could vote for either one of them. Nader or someone else on the ballot would likely get my vote at that point.
Republicans: "Hrm it looks like the Dems might win the election this time, get me Nader on the phone ASAP!"
im 100% for Ron Paul though I would vote for Obama
If it comes down to Romney v. Clinton I don't know if I could vote for either one of them. Nader or someone else on the ballot would likely get my vote at that point.
Republican voters need Ralph Nader because he lets them off the hook for doing stupid things, like electing George W. Bush. Now it's Nader's fault. I love the "Nader put Bush in the White House" rhetoric. What about the millions of people who allegedly voted for Bush?
Democrat voters need Ralph Nader because he lets them pretend their party in its current state is anything near the political meaning of "liberal." I refuse to believe that there is a significant number of people who find the messages of both Nader AND, say, Hillary Clinton appealing. The two are almost contradictory.
The entire thrust of an argument like this strikes me as silly. If you believe in Jesus, and you're not a Calvinist, then you believe that God gave us free will (correct me if I'm overstating).