Minimally Exceptional

read this: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4312689/.

what the fuck are we now, retarted?!? let me highlight some specifics:

“Ralph Nader acknowledged Monday that it will be difficult to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states in his independent bid for the presidency.”

that’s because you CANT FUCKING WIN. you couldn’t beat gore. you couldn’t beat bush the first time. you can’t beat ANY of the dems this time around (except maybe al sharpton and the chick whos name i can’t remember,) and you SURE AS HELL can’t beat bush THIS time.

don’t get me wrong. i consider myself one of the working middle-class ‘joe sixpacks’ that ralph nader fights for and advocates. and he’s has a respectable career and done some good things.

but, ralphie? buddy? you dont even have green party support. you didn’t get enough popular vote in 2000 to get general election taxpayer funding. you need more signatures just to get on the ballot in all 50 states than you got in the entire 2000 election. so who are you trying to fool here?

long story short: a vote for ralph nader is a vote for bush.

why? well, think about it.

there’s two teams here this year, and only two teams. we’re divided pretty much in half. there’s the ‘pro-bush’ team, and the ‘anti-bush’ team.

supporters of george bush are going to vote for him regardless of nader’s presence in the race. they’re sure as hell not going to suddenly decide to vote for nader now that he’s running AGAINST bush.

haters of george bush are going to vote for whoever the dem candidate is. kerry, edwards, whoever. but the presence of ralph nader fucks that up, because now there will be people supporting ralph nader (who can’t beat bush) instead of supporting the democrat (who can beat bush.)

let’s connect the dots: ralph nader nabs his 2 or 3 percent of the popular vote. just enough to fuck the democratic candidate in an already marginal 50/50 election. next? nader doesn’t get elected president (which everyone knew from the start, but whatever.) kerry doesn’t get elected. edwards doesn’t get elected. george dubya gets re-elected.

so what happens? in an attempt to dethrone king george II and protect the working middle class, ralph nader indirectly keeps george bush in office and protects the upper 2% yet again. joe sixpacks everywhere are faced with another term of shady special interest bullshit and upper class ballwashing.

does someone need to act it out in fucking sock puppets for this guy? all he’s going to do is fuck all the people that he claims to protect.

so, to summarize (and then i’ll shut the hell up):

a vote for ralph nader is a vote for bush.

DO NOT VOTE FOR RALPH NADER.

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i won’t. i wouldn’t, either.

sorry about the fucking stupid unauthorized reproduction btw

by esther @ 02/26/2004 06:51 AM CST