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In reply to the discussion: G. W. Bush--Innocent of the Theft of the Presidency? [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)To be seated you need 270 electoral votes.
Without Gore, W would have had 538.
Nader was a frivilous protest candidate who was just there to be a joker or wanted anarchy occur.
He wasn't a serious candidate,just another Alf Landon, or Roseanne running solely to bloviate and either with or without his own knowledge. At least Pat Paulsen told everyone it was a joke.
Begging the question how smart is Ralph Nader? What did he know and when did he know it?
The republicans financed him, did he in advance know? If so, wasn't it his duty to like his own Green party leaders wanted him to do, step out of it?
I take anyone at that level to be smart-ergo-he was a 15 minute fameseeker, who parlayed it into a lifetime supply of whine, which he does to this day.
So in essence, he is just another rebel with a straw, sipping the whine.
At least to any fans ofW-W was seated, what prize at the end did Ralph Nader and his fans get?
Did anyone ever get a T-Shirt from Ralph (maybe it said-
I stole the election of 2000, and all you got was a t-shirt and W and Iraq).
He should have ran in the primaries.
Then he should have not been so lazy and run for something he could have won, and like Al Franken serve without bloviating.But that would have required work.
Ralph Nader don't do no work. He just found his lotto ticket and cashed it in.
Anyone who doesn't like 41 and W and doesn't want Jeb around, doesn't like Nader, and knows very well what Ralph Nader did.
All it took was 4 electoral votes and 270 votes were Al Gore's.
Nov.2000 vs. Dec. 2000
Which came first?
Nov. Without Ralph Nader there never would have been a SCOTUS taking the case.