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Pathetic Nader

by John Cole|  June 24, 20047:24 pm| 3 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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I am all in favor of Ralph Nader’s candidacy under the notion that anything that might harm Kerry’s chances at election is good for America. However, this letter from Ralph Nader is the most disgusting display of boot-licking sychophancy I have ever seen:

Hey Dude Where’s My Buddy!!!??? Come Back Home Michael!!!

Ok Michael, you’ve had your realpolitik fling with ex-General Wesley Clark. Your endorsed Presidential candidate in the Democratic Primaries has withdrawn. It is time for you to come home, to join your buddies and resume your only genuine role which is that of defiance and resistance. Compliance and assistance with the Democrats does not accord with your past, your character, your bold writings and, most memorably, your long corrosive assaults on the Party that betrayed the working classes and plunged our country into corporate globalization. Remember, Michael, you’re the flinty man from Flint, Michigan. You’ve never forgotten your roots. The heady Hollywood, Manhattan scene with the celebrities and Academy Awards have never gotten to your head but rather have gotten into your deserving pockets. How we all recall your standing before one billion people in Los Angeles at the televised Academy Awards in 2003 and, breaking the customary cant of the awardees, throwing the gauntlet down to George W. Bush and his “fictitious” war mongering.

It gets worse.

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  1. 1.

    Chris P

    June 24, 2004 at 7:55 pm

    Any respect I had left for Ralph Nader has just been flushed down the toilet.

  2. 2.

    M. Scott Eiland

    June 24, 2004 at 8:58 pm

    Well, I suppose it *is* bootlicking, but only because Terry McAuliffe already has his face shoved into Moore’s fat–

    Ow Ow Ow! Bad brain!

  3. 3.

    Gregory Litchfield

    June 25, 2004 at 8:24 am

    I can’t believe I actually voted for that bastard.

    Hey, I might live in DC but I’m still registered in NY State. It doesn’t matter who the hell I vote for.

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