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...bell, you're a few steps ahead of Al Gore, who seems to have forgotten the recent past and abandoned early attempts to "reach out" to young voters. And in doing so, he appears to have all but handed a potentially key element of his campaign over to Ralph Nader, who has stormed the scene and shaved off Gore votes in key states...
...Note the lack of a candidate's name. From Teddy Roosevelt to Ross Perot to Jesse Ventura to Ralph Nader, American third parties have appeared on the national radar screen and then faded from it, with equal alacrity, for one main reason: They are cults of personality...
...Which Al Gore were you going to vote for, the environmentalist or the populist? Which George W. Bush, the tax-cutter or the anti-abortionist? Which Ralph Nader, the government reformer or the economic isolationist? Harry Browne makes it easy. A Libertarian government would hardly seem like government...
...Irony of Nader. Adding a perverse twist to the knife Republicans placed in Al Gore's back is none other than Ralph Nader. The resonance of Nader's rhetoric and the role his candidacy will play in taking down Al Gore's is Exhibit A in the long list of evidence against the functioning of our democracy. Nader assails the concentration of corporate power, which voters correctly identify with. However, his one-issue view lumps Gore and Bush together, obscuring their political differences. The public's inability to dissociate these messages contributes to the perception that there is no difference...
...soundest and most reliable engine in the 2000 campaign belongs to Ralph Nader, who, having no prospect of winning, can run on his ideals. We have always known that the proximity of power may make a person stupid, or at any rate uncivilized - hungry for it in that drooling way that ruins judgment. Nader burns nothing more dangerous than the fumes of his own virtue...