Mr. Nader is perhaps best known for his 2000 campaign, which some Democrats blame for siphoning votes away from then-Vice President Al Gore and costing him the election against then-Gov. George W. Bush (R., Texas). Mr. Nader ran as a Green party candidate that year in part because he believed that Mr. Gore and his Democratic party colleagues were insufficiently committed to the environmental agenda."Some Democrats"?? [....blame Nader for Gore losing the 2000 election].
More like anyone who could do simple maths. Nader took ~93,000 votes in Florida in the 2000 election. Gore lost Florida by ~95 votes on a dubious recount and dubious SCOTUS decision. Given that Nader was representing the Green Party, and that if they hadn't participated those Green votes would have gone to the Democrats, there cannot be a shadow of doubt that Nader cost Gore the presidency. Winning Florida meant taking all its Electoral College votes and that meant winning the national election.
I've written elsewhere that this Nader decision to run in Florida did harm to the environment. Gore would have done more than W Bush to tackle climate change.
And Gore would not have started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gore had said that the response to 9-11 should have been sending in the Special Services to hunt down Bin Laden. He said that at the time, not in retrospect. Can we doubt that that would have been a better policy than Bush's endless wars?
And now Nader is advising the Democrats?! They should tell him to take a long hike in the woods he so loves.
Take a hike, Ralph!
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