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Nader: a conservative conspiracy?

Is Ralph Nader in George Bush's pocket? I'm begining to think that Ralph Nader is Bush's ace in the hole--when the going gets tough, when the race is tight, confuse the super liberals and throw in Nader to kiss those vital votes away. The Democrats should have learned from 2000 that we need all our votes in one place. Nader is a genuine guy, and an honest man, so he should realize that he has no place in Washington D.C.. He'll never get elected, the idea of a third party candidate doing anything other than humoring Republicans is a joke. So why is his name surfacing? It must be a conservative conspiracy. Somehow Bush has spent the last several months brainwashing Nader down at a secret lab on his ranch in Crawford, Texas. This must be it. I don't want to believe that Ralph Nader is in this mess again. There are just enough ill-informed liberals out there that this curveball of a presidential candidate can garner enough support, i.e. divert enough votes to reinstate the incumbent sleaze ball. Damn you Nader. Respond to this posting

Posted by John Hieger at February 23, 2004 11:24 AM