Steal money, not votes!

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank07212004.html
 
I just had a discussion the other night with a friend of mine who asked
me how I felt about the RNC or regular Republicans contributing to
Nader's campaign. He was saying that he thought it was two-faced of
Nader to accept their money but rail against them. While this article
touches on why the Democrats should shut their mouths about it if they
don't want a fight they can't win, it misses out on some stuff that I
thought was pretty clever, although I was slightly messed up when I
thought of them. 
 
The Nader campaign can accept these contributions because they are
running their own campaign. Their goal is certainly not keeping Bush in
office, and it's not the bullshit anybody-but-Bush response the Dems
have put together with their painfully ineffectual tandem of Kerry and
Edwards. It is to raise issues that the parties must address, or risk
losing because someone IS addressing them and offering a real option. A
contribution to the Nader campaign is not buying promises of legislative
favors come election-day, as it is for the companies listed in the above
article. While the Republicans may be giving the money in hopes of
hurting Kerry's chances, the Nader camp is using it to forward issues
that need to be addressed, regardless of who needs to address them. In
fact, this last part is basically a moot point: all of the issues Nader
is bringing up are points that BOTH the corporatist parties need to
address. 
 
It's not Nader's fault that the Dems aren't listening to what he's
saying. Anyone voting for Nader sees little or no choice in this Skull
and Bones election, and would love to have a chance at their man
winning, but don't want to vote for someone who they don't want just so
their vote gets tallied with the winner. If the Democratic party would
stop whining about Nader stealing votes and maybe talk about Jeb Bush
and Kathryn Harris stealing votes, or (GASP!) acknowledge that Nader
raises issues that they, as the "leftist" party, should be addressing,
watch whatever meager percentage of people brave enough to object to
this bullshit election go over to their side. Why are the Dems so pissed
off at Nader when THEY WON LAST TIME?!?!  I mean, come on, aiming at
Bush rather than Nader a) would hurt their actual "rival" for the throne
(yes, throne), b) would allow them to raise much more legitimate and
less arrogant sounding issues (the vote count was WRONG and it's been
proven vs. "Hey! Quit stealing OUR votes!"), and c) actually work
against Nader, the issue-guy. 
 
It's not the voters role to come to a party, it's the other way around.
The Democrats need to stop bitching about Nader (as well as stop
knocking on my door, asking for money, and then saying that I'm wasting
my vote when I tell them to eat my independent dick), and start paying
attention to issues. I'm sorry, but if your sorry-ass party needs that
extra 5% of the vote to beat the most incompentent, foolish, and
dangerous President this country ever had (Nixon and Reagan, eat your
hearts out), that should REALLY tell you something.
 
Fuck John Kerry, fuck the Democratic Party, and fuck anyone who EVER
uses the term wasted vote ever again.

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