February 23, 2004

It's gonna be a fun campaign - Pt. 179
Posted by Jon Henke

Billy Beck notes....

Just now, on "Meet The Press", the notorious idiot Ralph Nader asserted that "we have no major enemies in the world," and specified, "No communist China." Not two minutes later, he complained about Bush "exporting" jobs to "the despotic communist regime in China".

I'm telling you. Check the transcript.

So, I checked the transcript. He's right. From the transcript...
The problem is that the corporate government remains in Washington, whether it's Democrats or Republicans. The military industrial complex, as Eisenhower pointed out, is getting bigger and devouring half of the federal budget's discretionary expenditure. And we have no major enemy left in the world, no Soviet Union, no Communist China.
Just a few paragraphs later, this...
People are beginning to realize that he doesn't care about the American people, although he says he does; that as a conservative president, he's presiding over and encouraging the shipment of industries and jobs to the despotic Communist regime in China;
Come one, Come all to see the Amazing Nader perform the Amazing Disappearing Communist China Trick!

Note: On the other hand, that might actually be an interesting foreign policy. "North Korea? What North Korea? Well, let them work out their own damned problems. I've never heard of them."
.....maybe Kim Jong-Il would realize he's been out-weirded, and back down?
(well, it's better than anything the UN has come up with)

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Equally as glaring is Russert's failure to take him to task about that. Its a FALSE premise, but he's never even challenged over it.

Posted by: McQ at February 23, 2004 01:18 PM

So far, what I have seen is that all left leaning interests--globally--whose oxen have been gored by the "Bush Doctrines" are doing and saying whatever they can to help defeat him.

I see Nader as no exception. Now, what if the focus here is switched to issues of voter-energizing and turnout? Nader is in a position to draw off the Angry Left while keeping it in viable electoral play, allowing the Dems to run a little closer to center--going after the all important undecideds. The coming--and well timed-- "Dubya dirt stories" can be broken thru Nader with less DNC damage. Particularly the "corporate" stuff.

Long about the third week in October, Nader bows out with a very strong "half a loaf is better than none" endorsment of Kerry. Quid Pro Quo a Naderite EPA (at least) in a Kerry administration. Were the McAuliffe/Nader conversations really as simple as Ralph...pleeeeze don't do this to us? Naive I would think.

Far fetched? Certainly. Unthinkable? Hardly, given what we've seen so far. And, these tactics would be consistent with what one would expect from folks with a Euroentric love for parliamentarian-style factional politics. What other way around the constraints of our electoral college?

Posted by: Stephen at February 23, 2004 03:32 PM