Are there any Deaniacs here who will vote for Nader?

[mot78]

This thread is NOT flame bait BTW. I know there are some Deaniacs on DU who have said they won't vote for a pro-War candidate in November, ableit a minority of Deaniacs. If you are a Deaniac and you have made up your mind to vote Nader, post hereif you want and give your reason why.

[virgdem]

1. Not this Dean supporter - I think most of us know the stakes involved

in this election. I'd venture to say that most Dean supporters will vote for Kerry.

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[Indiana_Dem]

3. Not me. I'm voting DK in primary, nominee in GE. n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

4. not just no, but HELL NO!

[LSdemocrat]

5. Not me

I'll vote for the Democratic nominee regardless, unless its Zell Miller. Then I might vote for someone else.

[mot78]

7. Don't worry about Zell

There's not a snowball's chance he'll get nominated...no matter what brokered convention scenario could play out.

[dsc]

6. I would sooner drink poison

I am not a fan of Kerry's but I will vote for the man if he wins the nomination. But, even if for some reason that weren't true, Nader wouldn't be the beneficiary. I would sooner vote Green or Socialist.

[InvisibleTouch]

8. No Way

Sooner would I take a flying leap into the abyss.

[brook]

9. No way...

Regardless of what my preference might be...getting * out of the People's house is the most important issue.( Nader's a bottom feeder IMHO).

[Daisey Mae]

10. No Way !!!

TO VOTE FOR RALPH NADERit is a real waste ALSO it is a vote for the empty flightsuit,....to vote for Nader would be against everything HOWARD DEAN stands for.........All true followers of Howard Dean will support the Democratic candidate who will soon be selected as He will do himself.

[newyawker99]

23. Hi Daisey Mae!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Vernunft II]

11. Not me, I went Kuchinich

[not systems]

12. nope.

:dem:

[zoeyfong]

13. I might, but would really rather write in Dean.

I'm not voting for any pro-war candidate, and my first inclination is to write-in Dean, but for the sake of unifying the left-of-center 3rd party vote, i could vote nader.

[Eric J in MN]

14. What about the likelihood of W. starting another war if he

What about the likelihood of W. starting another war if he gets another term, versus the smaller chance that Kerry would start a war?

[zoeyfong]

24. On war, the difference between them is so slight it hardly matters.

That's my biggest gripe!

[REP]

15. FUCK NO!

There's just too much at stake. I love my country too much to do anything like that.

[Atlant]

16. I've said I won't vote for Nader, but I won't vote for Kerry, either.

I'll wait to see who the Greens are running and
then take my decision.

Atlant

[frustrated_lefty]

17. No.

I may not vote at all...I dunno yet. But Nader is out of the question.

[HFishbine]

18. Nader

wasn't on the ballot in my state when he was the Green party candidate. I doubt very much he'll be on the ballot as an independent.

[Padraig18]

19. No way in hell will I vote for anyone besides our party's nominee.

There is too much at stake to vote for anyone besides the Democratic nominee.

[Larkspur]

20. If treacherous and malicious Gephardt is selected VP...

I will seriously be tempted to vote for Nader. I live in a "safe" state, CT, so I could get away with it.

[Atlant]

27. Wouldn't that just be the "icing on the cake"?

Murder our guy with semi-annonymous political slime and
then expectto receive our vote in return?

Atlant

[BL_Zebub]

21. Nader's not on the ballot in Hell

so I guess I won't.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

22. Not Nader, but Green.

I'm not sure if I qualify as a "Deaniac". I supported his candidacy as an alternative to the DLC "not too liberal" bunch we are stuck with but I never thought he was the messiah.

Nader is just a nuisance at this point, so I'll be voting Green for Prez and Dem for my anti-war senator (Murray) and anti-war rep (Baird).

The Repbubs and moderate Repubs(D) can slug it out for the spoils offered by the corporations.

[slinkerwink]

25. Hell no!

[quaker bill]

26. No

I am still holding 2000 against him.

[NoPasaran]

28. No effing way!

Let him stroke his own ego

[bitchkitty]

29. Only if I see one hundred threads

that demean my intelligence, my loyalty and my patriotism. This is number 99, so you guys should probably quit posting them or Ralph will get one more vote.

[stuzzy]

30. No, but I'll be voting third party

Kerry is no good.

[dionysus]

31. not me

nt

[ArkDem]

32. I'm thinking about writting in Howard Dean...

as a protest of what the party did to him.

[hellhathnofury]

34. Me too.

[ldoolin]

33. No.

Nader had his turn already, and this year he's apparently gotten in bed with the Fred Newmanite cult. So, Ralph doesn't get a vote this year.

That doesn't necessarily translate into an automatic vote for Kerry though. He will have to earn it during the campaign.

[Anwen]

35. No.

[OutlawCorporatePolls]

36. no, but i did stay at a holiday inn express last night...

but really, go explore the third parties. u only have 8 months to study it. forget the dnc deanies. they dont want u. they dont want change. theyll take ur money and vote but not your opinions.

here is a snip of the myth about nader costing gore the election too...


"It is true that had Gore had won a portion of Nader’s vote in Florida or New Hamphire, he would have won these states’ electoral votes and moved into the White House. But votes for Pat Buchanan of the right-wing Reform Party were greater than George Bush’s margin of defeat in Wisconsin, Oregon, Iowa and New Mexico in 2000--yet no one called Buchanan a "spoiler."

The Democrats’ complaints about Nader assume that our votes "belong" to the two mainstream parties--and any third party challenge is, by definition, stealing them from their rightful owners. This reasoning allows Democrats like Al Gore to position themselves just barely to the left of their Republican opponents, offering nothing to the party’s liberal and working-class base but their claim to be the "lesser evil."

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb04/Maass0226.htm