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2371 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed on the politics of the crisis -- rank: 345

... Drugs." Yeah, *that* "leftwinger." > > As opposed to that "leftwinger" Ralph Nader, who uses the word > "socialist" as a smear. Doug Henwood obviously resents Ralph Nader so much that he even misrepresents what he supposedly heard Nader say. Nader didn't use the word *socialist* negatively. He used the ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Oct 1 11:36:19 PDT 2008

2372 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph the rightwinger -- rank: 345

... absolute worst S.O.B.s of the Repugs, and Nader boasts of his ability to find common cause with them ... s genuine, to steal Carrol's fav epithet, bad faith. Nader either doesn't care or doesn't get it. Unlike Nader, Chomsky saw the odious characters behind Bush before Nov. 2000, and they spooked him. Nader is looking for coalition partners among them. -- Shane ________________________________________________________________ The best ...

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Author:	Shane Taylor
Date:	Mon Mar 22 21:58:41 PST 2004

2373 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 345

... much of this can you document? I was/am a Nader supporter, but I don't recall all that stuff. I remember the following: Nader calling Gore a coward and corporate lackey, etc., and calling ... folks whose ideas you basically agree with. mbs The entire Nader campaign was organized around the theme of betrayal by Gore ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Thu Nov 16 10:00:17 PST 2000

2374 free ride -- rank: 345

... voter could arrive at a ranking of >1.) Vote for Nader >2.) Vote for Gore >3.) Vote for McReynolds Of course ... conceive of no reason to imagine that >the absence of Nader from the race might have >increased Gore's actual plurality ... polls. Given that over 90,000 Florida voters went for Nader, if 84,000 had jumped to McReynolds or stayed home ... hear usually intelligent people making these ridiculous arguments that no Nader voters were potential Gore voters and I just marvel at ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Nov 12 09:05:37 PST 2002

2375 free ride -- rank: 345

... DeLong wrote: > > The electors of Florida went to Bush. Had Nader not put > his narcissistic candidacy forward, the electors of > Florida ... micro numbers that pitched the decision into the courts. Without Nader in the race, the Gore totals would have been so ... take Green Party arguments seriously is the intellectual denial that Nader mattered in the 2000 election. When a political trend engages ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue Nov 12 07:35:23 PST 2002

2376 [lbo-talk] Lieberman -- rank: 345

... and he gets > nominated, it will be another chance for Nader to > throw the election to Bush. FWIW, Nader isn't leading the Green polls, at least here in ... Cynthia McKinney came out on top with over 40%, drubbing Nader. I believe David Cobb, the state secretary of the party ... was second. Cobb doesn't have the name recognition of Nader, obviously, but he's a more energetic speaker. His politics ...

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Author:	Shane Taylor
Date:	Tue Jul 8 11:27:04 PDT 2003

2377 [lbo-talk] Virtually all Dems support Card Check Bill -- rank: 345

... exercise even less power than before. Mirroring the division between Nader/Camejo supporters, Cobb/LaMarche supporters (who are in turn divided ... Just as the 2004 division of the Green Party into Nader/Camejo- and Cobb/LaMarche-supporters is a setback from the Nader/LaDuke 2000 campaign

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 25 23:53:33 PDT 2004

2378 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 345

John Halle wrote: >A striking characteristic of the anti-Nader forces, typified by the >subject line here, is the belief ... is to >attribute all sorts of bizarre, reactionary positions to Nader- a >recent post accusing him of opposing gay marriage is ... said that, there are reasonable arguments to be made against >Nader's candidacy, and I have made some of them myself, to Nader's >face no less. (I will share these with the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 16 13:08:25 PST 2004

2379 Voter Fraud,etc. -- rank: 345

... in Florida a few years back. Is this true? Re Nader: I didn't vote for Nader because even if he got elected none of his stuff ... thru Congress. Big Biz would never tolerate a living wage. Nader is an effort to push the Left further left--which is bound to fail. What turkey would vote for Nader? Florida Vote: Wasn't that allegedly illegal ballot used in ...

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Author:	matt hogan
Date:	Tue Nov 14 12:46:41 PST 2000

2380 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 345

John Halle wrote: >As for your description of Farley, well maybe he hasn't been >appropriately introduced at Upper West Side coffee klatsches. I can't remember the last one of those I went to. > Does this fit your description of a non-entity? > >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 17 14:38:02 PST 2004

2381 [lbo-talk] what makes Ralph run? -- rank: 345

... Le Noir in second place. Early in October we asked Nader for his two top favorites and back came the answer ... s The Aims of Education and Harmony Ideology, by Laura Nader. We must confess we've never read Whitehead's book ... an attack on the notion of "coercive harmony", which Laura Nader, a professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley once defined as ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Mon Mar 15 10:12:11 PST 2004

2382 Green-baiting -- rank: 345

... expect an ugly period of payback in Washington in which > Nader's valuable network of organizations will likely be the first ... will be a victim of the infantile > left-wing disorder Nader developed in his quixotic quest to elect a > reactionary Republican ... Dems have been ignoring progressive groups for eight years now. Nader's PIRGs have strong local bases of support and have ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Sun Nov 12 20:52:13 PST 2000

2383 [lbo-talk] Bush expected to announce candidacy any day now -- rank: 345

... to threaten violence or tacitly >approve violence against people (like Nader) exercising their >constitutional rights to political action. The position that it is >wrong for Nader to run because we all have to rally around Kerry ... is >more important to run a Third Party campaign. Indeed, Nader >supporters have been physically attacked, and the glib attitude that ... that no one should injure or threaten to injure Ralph Nader and anyone who does either should be arrested. Ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 20 08:40:48 PST 2004

2384 [lbo-talk] Taking Power -- rank: 345

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>But building such a party takes a long time, and, frankly, I don't >>think that LBO-talk (where patience is in short supply) > >Huh? My critique of Green strategy is precisely that they had been >trying to leapfrog the years of local organizing necessary to create ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 20 10:55:50 PST 2004

2385 [lbo-talk] Learn Why We Need a Million Worker March -- rank: 345

... to vote for Bush or Kerry will be represented by Nader > >Represented how? In what forum? As one of a couple ... AnybodyButNader gang have succeeded in not only depressing votes for Nader/Camejo but also helping Kerry snatch defeat out of the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Sep 20 06:22:01 PDT 2004