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"Mike Hersh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri May 28, 2004 3:24 pm
Subject: How the Great Crusader used the Green Party to get his revenge
"Ralph Nader ran so he could hurt, wound, and punish the Democrats. His
primary goal was not raising issues, much less building the Green Party.
He actively wanted Gore to lose. Where did this passion to punish come
from?"
How the Great Crusader used the Green Party to get his revenge
Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber by Harry G. Levine (Updated Version)
The Village Voice, May 3rd, 2004 1:20 PM
On Friday, October 13, 2000, at Madison Square Garden, the largest of
Ralph Nader's "super rallies" kicked his campaign into high gear. It was
a great event in many ways. Fifteen thousand ticket buyers cheered
songs, jokes, skits, and pep talks delivering timeless radical truths
about wealth and power in America. Nader's speech was actually the low
point, circulating randomly through riffs about corporate power, health
insurance, the environment, and what Ralph Nader had accomplished.
But Nader also served up disturbing untruths. Most notable was his
insistence that Al Gore and George W. Bush were "Tweedledee and
Tweedledum" - they look and act the same, so it doesn't matter which you
get. I went home angry. But it took me a while to understand that my
progressive hero had turned suicide bomber - that Ralph Nader had
strapped political dynamite onto himself and walked into one of the
closest elections in American history hoping to blow it up.
The next day I was invited to a fundraising party in Greenwich Village.
There I approached Michael Moore and described how the campaign could
use the Web to provide the latest data on battleground states like
Florida, where Nader supporters should hold their noses and vote for
Gore. When Moore realized what I was suggesting, he puffed up like one
of those fish that expand when threatened, leaned into me, poked his
finger into my face, and yelled: "You can't say that! You can't say
that! You can't say that!"
Later I was introduced to Nader's closest adviser, his handsome,
piercingly intelligent 30-year-old nephew, Tarek Milleron. Although
Milleron argued that environmentalists and other activists would find
fundraising easier under Bush, he acknowledged that a Bush presidency
would be worse for poor and working-class people, for blacks, for most
Americans.
As Moore had, he claimed that Nader's campaign would encourage Web-based
vote-swapping between progressives in safe and contested states. But
when I suggested that Nader could gain substantial influence in a
Democratic administration by focusing his campaign on the 40 safe states
and encouraging his supporters elsewhere to vote Gore, Milleron leaned
coolly toward me with extra steel in his voice and body. He did not
disagree. He simply said, "We're not going to do that."
"Why not?" I said.
With just a flicker of smile, he answered, "Because we want to punish
the Democrats, we want to hurt them, wound them."
There was a long silence and the conversation was over.
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Milleron's words are so remarkable they bear repeating: Ralph Nader ran
so he could hurt, wound, and punish the Democrats. His primary goal was
not raising issues, much less building the Green Party. He actively
wanted Gore to lose. Where did this passion to punish come from?
Complete Article: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0418/levine.php
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