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Thanks for running, Ralph!

• by gregory v.

It will be a privilege and honor to once again support a campaign that matters. Thanks for continuing to fight the good fight.

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Nader=integrity

• by Blake W.

I completely agree with Alex S.--Nader is no spoiler. The outpouring of contempt towards him from Democrats following his 2000 Presidential campaign is a misguided attempt to divert attention from the fact that Al Gore (in 2000, at least) was an unappealing candidate from an unappealing political party. In Florida in 2000, Bush got twice as many votes from registered Democrats than Nader received from the entire state. Perhaps Gore supporters should spend more time wondering why 250,000 Florida Democrats jumped ship on their own candidate and less time trying to blackmail conscientious voters into voting for Democrats with scare tactics like the "a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush" slogan. Nader attracts more ire from Democrats than anybody else for a simple reason: he represents a real, progressive alternative to the Democratic Party's entrenched corporatism and pandering faux-liberalism, and exposes the hypocrisy of a party that claims to be progressive but is increasingly indistinguishable from the GOP. In 2008, remember who voted for the Iraq War, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush tax cuts (hint: it wasn't Nader).

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Sick of it

• by Alex S.

I get pretty sick of Nader's name being synonymous with "spoiler." I hear it more often than I ever would have expected when I supported Nader in 2000--of course noone could have seen how right-leaning the country had become or how badly Al Gore's preormance  really was.

Of course, I feel as though people who so outwardly criticize Nader's participation in the elections fundamentally midunderstand a) the electoral process and b) how important the electoral process is in informing the national dialogue. Large corporations are so entrenched in the political process that many ideas are bought out of the national discussion that is picking a leader. If Nader (and Kucinich and now Ron Paul and fiery Mike Gravel) weren't drawing our attention to the issues that aren't controled by large-name candidates with big-time investors, when would we ever consider these issues?

Call Ralph Nader a spoiler all that you want, but his presense enriches the national dialogue about issues that are often swept under a rug or kept out of our mouths by corporate money. We should thank him for what he brings to the table and not blaming him for Gore's weaknesses in the 2000 election.

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