Ralph Nader now supports the Democrats/Still opposes the GOP Tea Party

[Dawson Leery]

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/3428-why-say-yes-to-the-party-of-no

"How does the Big Business-indentured Republican Party get away with expectations of a runaway election victory this November? If such a victory should occur in Congress and for many governorships and state legislatures, it will be due to a ten percent or so shift in voters who voted Democratic in 2008 and are expected to vote Republican this year or stay home in despair or disgust. The rest of the voters who do vote will still stay with their hereditary Republican or Democratic candidates.

So what is accounting for a possible ten percent shift? Let’s briefly review some of the Congressional Republicans’ voiced positions:
1. They want to do nothing about unfair Chinese trade practices that lure jobs away from our country though huge factory subsidies, and where workers are repressed and counterfeit products abound. Imagine, Republicans coddling a communist regime, luring the auto parts, electronic, solar and drug ingredients industries away from America, often in violation of the World Trade Organization rules. And, in turn, China is exporting to the U.S. impure food, faulty tires, toxic drywall, lead-tainted toys and medicines which are contaminated, defective or harmful. Don’t forget the dumping violations.

2. Republicans, led by Senator Richard Shelby and his banking friends, declared their adamant opposition to Professor Elizabeth Warren becoming head of the new consumer financial regulation agency. (To avoid a confrontation with them, President Obama made her a special assistant to organize this consumer watchdog.) Ms. Warren has a solid record of exposing and communicating clearly to families the tricks and traps of credit card companies, mortgage firms, and intermediaries that have taken so many billions of consumer dollars with impunity."

[depakid]

1. Ruh, roh

:popcorn:

[scheming daemons]

4. Except he didn't say what the OP's subject says... he bashed Dems... again....

...as being the same as Republicans.


A tired argument that has no basis in fact.


But that's where Nader lives nowadays.

[depakid]

6. Apparently you didn't bother to read the article. Que Sorpresa

His conclusion was despite all of the Republican cringe worthy policies and behaviors:


There is much more, but enough has been cited to ask again—how are Republicans seen by the polls as front runners in the upcoming election?

The answer my friends, is not in the stars. The answer is in the clueless and spineless Democrats, busily dialing for the same corporate campaign dollars.

That's absolutely spot on, supported by overwhelming evidence and a criticism that if the Democratic leadership took to heart, they might not be staring down epic electoral fail, but instead, would be talking about how many would be added to their majorities.

[AnOhioan]

2. Not really

Towards the end of the article:

"There is much more, but enough has been cited to ask again—how are Republicans seen by the polls as front runners in the upcoming election?

The answer my friends, is not in the stars. The answer is in the clueless and spineless Democrats, busily dialing for the same corporate campaign dollars."


Too bad no-one in Washington DC is listening

[Canuckistanian]

3. He'll change his mind

About two weeks before the election. It's what he does.

[RavensChick]

5. Oh, dear.

First the Tea Party and now this.

We.are.fucked.

That is all.

[bottomofthehill]

7. Too LittleToooooo Late

Thanks for nothing Ralph, How can I miss you if you wont go away.

Dont let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya you asshat.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Ralph has never opposed the teapublicans He has colluded with them though

http://washingtonindependent.com/71475/ralph-nader-rejoins-the-tea-parties

By David Weigel 12/18/09 11:59 AM

Benjamin Sarlin talks to Ralph Nader, who’s celebrating at least the 20th anniversary of his transition from interesting public advocate to self-defeating scold, about health care. Nader, predictably — and with a lack of understanding of congressional politics that must be willful — blames Barack Obama for selling out liberals. But one thing that separates Nader from other liberal critics of the health care compromise, like Howard Dean, is his alliance with the conservative activists who now lead the Tea Party movement.

In 2004, when Democrats — rather understandably — were trying to make it hard for Nader to make it onto state ballots, the candidate got unexpected help from Citizens for a Sound Economy — the group that would later split into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. In Oregon, one of the states where Nader voters nearly helped throw the election to Bush in 2000, CSE enlisted its volunteers to collect signatures for Nader.

“We saw it as an obvious opportunity to split the liberal base in a swing state,” Matt Kibbe, CSE’s president and CEO told ABC News.