Friday, June 25, 2004
Nader getting support from unlikely voters :
Conservatives in Oregon are mobilizing to put Ralph Nader on the ballot. Below is the text of one of the scripts that volunteers are using to help turn out people for Nader petitions
Naturally, the Oregon Green Party has no problem with this.
This is a pretty perverse coalition. Odds are that the Oregon Green activists so blasé about this now were populating anti-war protests last year, or were at least strongly anti-war. And now they are acting to prolong the tenure of an administration that they allegedly deplore. Are they so mentally defective as to be unable to associate their actions with consequences they deplore? Do they represent some kind of evolutionary cul-de-sac in human development? I'm having a hard time dismissing the possibility.
Conservatives in Oregon are mobilizing to put Ralph Nader on the ballot. Below is the text of one of the scripts that volunteers are using to help turn out people for Nader petitions
Ralph Nader is undoubtedly going to pull some very crucial votes from John Kerry, and that could mean the difference in a razor-thin presidential election,' reads a script used by Citizens for a Sound Economy in its phone calls. 'Can we count on you to come out on Saturday night and sign the petition to nominate Ralph Nader?
Naturally, the Oregon Green Party has no problem with this.
This is a pretty perverse coalition. Odds are that the Oregon Green activists so blasé about this now were populating anti-war protests last year, or were at least strongly anti-war. And now they are acting to prolong the tenure of an administration that they allegedly deplore. Are they so mentally defective as to be unable to associate their actions with consequences they deplore? Do they represent some kind of evolutionary cul-de-sac in human development? I'm having a hard time dismissing the possibility.
