Wed May 13, 2015, 01:16 PM
Backwoodsrider (100 posts)
Sanders might do to Hillary what Nader did to Gore in 2000
I am telling you I have seen this game before.
"In the 2000 presidential election in Florida, George W. Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes. Nader received 97,421 votes, which led to claims that he was responsible for Gore's defeat. Nader, both in his book Crashing the Party and on his website, states: "In the year 2000, exit polls reported that 25% of my voters would have voted for Bush, 38% would have voted for Gore and the rest would not have voted at all." Michael Moore at first argued that Florida was so close that votes for any of seven other candidates could also have switched the results, but in 2004 joined the view that Nader had helped make Bush president. When asked about claims of being a spoiler, Nader typically points to the controversial Supreme Court ruling that halted a Florida recount, Gore's loss in his home state of Tennessee, and the "quarter million Democrats who voted for Bush in Florida."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader#2000
I don't think for a second that Sanders is going to get elected in 2016, not after claiming for years that he was a socialist so what is he doing right now? He is stealing the fire from Hillary just like Nader did to Gore in 2000 but sucking in many of the motivated young people and money and TV time that could be used to attack the right but instead he is using them to attack Hillary. I don't know what is motivating Sanders but I am going to suspect he has a problem with authority and see's Hillary as fruit ripe for the picking. You don't think he is motivated by ego google 'sanders angry response'.
No I don't think Hillary is perfect but she is the best we got. Or we could join a losing cause and possibly get the GOP candidate elected and those suckers are crazy!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026666147 Wed May 13, 2015, 01:19 PM
morningfog (10,835 posts)
2. Gore won. Bush stole it.
And more Dems voted for Bush than the differential of the first count, some 40 times over.
This is a lazy, dribbling OP.
I challenge anyone to translate the nadinese in this post:
Wed May 13, 2015, 01:30 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,722 posts)
20. El dedazo y el destape
no wonder I see PRI insignia everywhere, oh wait. That tricolor is red white and blue, not red white and green.
Some people though would prefer that...I suspect.
And now, the nutcase demonstrates her ignorance of primary vs. nomination:
Wed May 13, 2015, 01:28 PM
nadinbrzezinski (136,722 posts)
17. Odd given that Sanders is running for the democratic primary.
I did not realize Nader ran for the Democratic primary in 2000...oh wait, he did not.
Nice adorable try though.
Wed May 13, 2015, 01:31 PM
greenman3610 (3,213 posts)
22. I still remember "There's not a dimes worth of difference between Al Gore and George Bush"
thanks for 8 years of hell, death destruction, and Citizen's United, Nader voters!!!
You should also thank the idiots who voted for Ross Perot, and gave us eight years of Willy and the Hildebeast.
Without Perot we would have no Hildebeast today.
