Subject: Village Voice: Nader Really tried to defeat Gore in 2000

 

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0418/levine.php

 

"I was introduced to Nader's closest adviser, his

... nephew, Tarek Milleron... 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."

 

"It was clear to many," writes Martin, "that [Nader]

truly despised Gore, while he was merely dismissive of

Bush." Martin was especially struck by a Portland

speech where Nader said that Gore was "more

reprehensible" than Bush because Gore "knows so much

and refuses to act on his knowledge."

 

...Sellers ...believes Nader hated Gore, he told me,

because "Gore wouldn't return his phone calls."

 

Nader's swing-state strategy was the crux of his

anti-Gore game plan. .. He spent the last days of the

campaign in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan,

and, especially, Florida, which according to Sellers

he visited five times all told.... Nader forced Gore

to expend time and resources on states he should have

had in his pocket."

It is like an election when there is Hitler versus Stalin. You can vote for Jesus and he's great and all, but please, we all know the country would be better off with Stalin than Hitler.

Nader's swing-state strategy was the crux of his

anti-Gore game plan. .. He spent the last days of the

campaign in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan,

and, especially, Florida, which according to Sellers

he visited five times all told.... Nader forced Gore

to expend time and resources on states he should have

had in his pocket."

 

Doesn't make sense.