William Mandel wrote:
> The best argument I have heard in favor of Nader against those
> who say, "Do you mean you want Bush as president?", is that a
> substantial Nader vote will compel the next Demopub president to
>From 1952 through 1964 I voted Democrat in every election, offyear
as well as presidential years. I haven't voted since. On the basis of
"the lesser evil" I would vote for Bush. If you look at objective results
and not rhetoric, the most progressive administration since 1938
was the Nixon administration. And Clinton's administration was to
the right of McKinley. It was Clinton that kept his electoral promise
to end welfare as we know it. If we hadn't been saved by Monica
Social Security would be dead by now. With a republicrat in the
White House the Demireps in Congress have to pretend to be
"Democrats" as preserved in the popular imagination -- hence the
more progressive record of republicrat administrations.
Had Humphrey been elected in 1968 there would probably still be
U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Carrol Cox
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