Re: Fuck you, Howard Dean

Maybe so! However voting third parties is the beginning of the end of choosing
between the lesser of two evils. The reason the election during the 2000
campaign was so close was because we were voting not for our personal
ideologies but for one of two centralist candidates. Don't give up any third
party vote because you've been coerced into believing that it's throwing your
vote away. If the citizens of the United States voted for what they believed in
we'd have many more choices and civil liberties. Logic would supersede party
affiliation, and we could assume our civil liberties the way they were meant to
be applied. Vote your feelings, not for the lesser of two evils, no matter what
the consequences. Stand up for yourself and your beliefs. If you don't, you're
nothing more than a drone in the hive of injustice. 

Brian Skena

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:22:46 +0000, dvanhorn wrote:

> Typically FUD. I h8 the DNC.  -- David
> 
> 
> For Ralph Nader, but Not for President
> 
> By HOWARD DEAN
> 
> BURLINGTON, Vt.
> 
>      Everyone expects this year's presidential election to be decided by 
> razor-thin margins in a few battleground states. Everyone also expects
> the candidacy of Ralph Nader to make the race between John Kerry and George 
> Bush even closer. As I know from experience, however, voters have
> a way of proving everyone wrong.
> 
> Democrats are motivated to defeat the president this year. They've seen 
> firsthand what three years of Bush administration policies have done to
> America. And they want to stop his policies from inflicting any more damage on

> working-class Americans, the environment, our international
> standing or a woman's right to choose.
> 
> Many Democrats also admire Ralph Nader's achievements, as I do. But if they 
> truly want George Bush out of the White House, they won't vote for
> Ralph Nader in November.
> 
> Ralph Nader has built a remarkable legacy as a consumer advocate. Because of 
> his tireless work, we have federal consumer protection laws and a
> federal department dedicated to the protection of our environment, and 
> millions of defective motor vehicles are off the roads. And I campaigned
> against the very same corporate special interests that he has been criticizing

> longer than almost anyone else.
> 
> But I don't believe that the best way to do justice to Ralph Nader's legacy is

> to vote for him for president. Re-electing George Bush would undo
> everything Ralph Nader has worked for through his entire career and, in fact, 
> could lead to the dismantling of many of his accomplishments.
> 
> Voting for Ralph Nader, or for any third-party candidate for president, means 
> a vote for a candidate who has no realistic shot of winning the White
> House. To underscore the danger of voting for any third-party candidate in 
> elections this close, a statistic from the 2000 campaign may prove useful:
> a total of eight third-party candidates won more votes than the difference 
> between Al Gore and George Bush nationwide.
> 
> When I ended my bid for the presidency, I asked my supporters to continue our 
> quest for change in America. Our group, Democracy for America, is
> committed to exposing the ways in which the Bush administration's policies are

> designed to prop up the privileged and please right-wing
> ideologues. Our agenda is rooted in hope and real American values - 
> opportunity, integrity, honesty. This is the way to defeat George Bush.
> 
> Ralph Nader once said that your best teacher is your last mistake. Too many of

> us learned the consequences of not standing together four years ago.
> This November, we can elect a president who fights for average Americans. But 
> we can achieve this goal only if we join together - and don't repeat
> our last mistake.
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