>>Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>>Yet another blessing we have received from Ralph Nader...
>>
>>No, from Al Gore. If as many self-identified Democrats had voted for
>>Gore as self-identified Republicans voted for Bush, W would still be
>>governor of Texas.
>>
>>Doug
>
>And Nader was in their pitching, telling self-identified Democrats
>not to vote for Gore...
>
>
>Brad DeLong
No, Nader never told anybody, let alone "self-identified Democrats,"
"not to vote for Gore." Nader called on progressives to vote *for*
the candidate whose proposals they supported, not for the "....evil"
whose record and policies they opposed.
As for the ergonomic rules-- is it Nader's fault that Gore, having won
the election, handed the presidency on a silver platter to Bush? Is
it Nader's fault that the Gore-Clinton administration delayed, obviously
with intention, the promulgation of regulations vitally important to
working people, until their concessionary though fraudulent successor
could undo them with a stroke of the pen?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
