Wednesday, March 31, 2004
The New York Times reports that Nader is still in a fantasy land of his own making, claiming that he will primarily attract disaffected Republicans and will help Kerry win.
Lest we think that this is novel or new, remember that he claimed that Gore was likely going to win in 2000. And the notion that he will somehow "show" Democrats how to beat Bush is bizarre. It bears mentioning that when people are polled twice on their presidential choices and Nader is included the second time, his voters come almost entirely from Kerry's respondents, while Bush respondents stay at almost exactly the same level.
As before, he simply can't understand criticism, so his response is to demean the many people who have tried to address him sympathetically: "I realized that we are confronting a virus, a liberal virus. And the characteristic of a virus is when it takes hold of the individual, it's the same virus, individual letters all written in uncannily the same sequence."
Note to egomaniac: they're in the same sequence because these people are trying to say that they respect you, because in order to appeal to you they have to stick to a fairly established formula of writing. Once that respect goes out the window, expect a wide variation of letters.
But it bears mentioning again that Ralph Nader is too high on himself to concede real intelligence or ideals to anyone other than himself. Disagreement with him isn't a mark of different ideas, it's a "virus." What else could lead people to question the immortal Saint Ralph?
Lest we think that this is novel or new, remember that he claimed that Gore was likely going to win in 2000. And the notion that he will somehow "show" Democrats how to beat Bush is bizarre. It bears mentioning that when people are polled twice on their presidential choices and Nader is included the second time, his voters come almost entirely from Kerry's respondents, while Bush respondents stay at almost exactly the same level.
As before, he simply can't understand criticism, so his response is to demean the many people who have tried to address him sympathetically: "I realized that we are confronting a virus, a liberal virus. And the characteristic of a virus is when it takes hold of the individual, it's the same virus, individual letters all written in uncannily the same sequence."
Note to egomaniac: they're in the same sequence because these people are trying to say that they respect you, because in order to appeal to you they have to stick to a fairly established formula of writing. Once that respect goes out the window, expect a wide variation of letters.
But it bears mentioning again that Ralph Nader is too high on himself to concede real intelligence or ideals to anyone other than himself. Disagreement with him isn't a mark of different ideas, it's a "virus." What else could lead people to question the immortal Saint Ralph?
