Re: RAT Re: ralphie boy

[NashGay@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/10/00 3:18:14 PM Central Daylight Time, 
shadowtackle@worldnet.att.net writes:

<< If Nader's few percent give the election to Bush, then The Dems will swing
 back to the left. A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader and a fortified
 Green, but also a vote for the Dem's return to form. >>

There is no reason to believe the Dems will return to the Left.  Clinton got 
in by playing the middle.  If Bush wins, it'll be because he co-opted the 
same strategy.  The country is very moderate these days.  Gambling that that 
will change, when the economy is booming, is a LONG shot.  And you give up 
judges seats to antichoicers.  Not to mention you give up countless other 
leftist social causes. All on the dubious hope, that the left will get the 
Dems back and the Dems will get the white house back.  Whereas, you vote for 
Gore, you vote for prochoice justices, slow (which is better than no or 
backsliding) social progress and the Republicans are kept at bay.  If Bush 
gets in and the economy stays strong, he'll be in for 8 years and if Cheney 
is a better campaigner than the 2008 Dem, that could be 12 or 16 years.  Have 
we forgotton 12 years of Reagan/Bush already?  Don't go for such a foolhardy 
strategy.  Vote Gore and continue agitatinng from a position of power.