For Dazy Po:

First off, for a leftist hero that's different from those pandering Democrats, he's quite the hypocrite. He railed against Gore and others for investing in not-so great companies, yet invests in such corporate monsters as Wal-Mart, GAP, the Limited, and HALLIBURTON himself. These all part of a Fidelity mutual fund that his own "Nader's Raiders" denounced, companies that are reviled by the WTO protestors--people Nader supports in word. He casts himself as a proponent of labor, yet denies his workers the right to unionize. He talks up his consumer advocate history, but at the same time uses funds from his advocacy groups for stock market adventures.

Second, the premise for his run is a false one. He declares there is too little difference between the parties (there are plenty of life-and-death differences for people to vote on), and further states the reason half the people don't vote is because the two party system doesn't speak for them, tries to encourage apathy, etc. Well, he's run a few times now, and I haven't seen the other half of the country start voting again. It's not that they don't care about Republicans and Democrats, apparently Nader doesn't blow their skirts up either. And if it's the media's or the public's fault, how does Nader expect to fix those problems when it's in the interest of the intrenched parties to maintain the status quo? Run again?

Finally, anyone who says he wants to "heighten the contradictions", or prefers Republicans be in charge for that reason, should be thrown out on his ass. Ends justifies the means rhetoric doesn't EVER fly with me and it certainly shouldn't with you. For those who rightly criticize the argument that the IWR Dems were "giving W enough rope to hang himself with", I hope you NEVER try to justify Nader's statements that have the same basic and flawed idea. Putting Republicans in power so that their atrocities galvanize the populace is a sick way of using widespread suffering for political gain, and I want no part of it.

It's from here.