Swift Boat Donors Float Nader Some Money (WaPo)
A handful of donors to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization that has run controversial ads attacking Democrat John F. Kerry, have also given money to independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
To the tune of $7,500 recently. Here is the evidence of their delusion, or at least the illusion they expect us to believe:
The Nader camp rejected suggestions that it was hypocritical of him to accept the money — and said the donations were evidence of its candidate’s ability to appeal to voters from across the political spectrum. “Twenty-five percent of our voters are people who voted for Bush. I’m not surprised there’s some overlap in funding, as well,” said spokesman Kevin Zeese. “If they support us, they support us,” he said. “We can still criticize their advertising campaign.”
Evidence of the candidate’s appeal? I understand saying “whatever support that’s theirs to give is ours to take.” But to imagine that the people who funded the Swifties are actually interested in electing Nader displays a nearly pathological break with reality.
I expect there has been plenty of funding for Nader along these lines, but we haven’t been privy to it.
Posted by James at October 7, 2004 9:10 AMI can't decide if Nader suffers from megalomania or egomania, but I sure wish he'd check into McLean before we're stuck with President Shit for Brains for another 4 years!
Posted by: Patti M. at October 7, 2004 12:31 PMAnd now he is campaigning in swing states! WTF? Why not campaing in states that are safely in the Bush column. He can get some votes that way and feel good about himself.
Posted by: at October 8, 2004 2:21 PMWhy isn't he campaigning in states that are safely in the Bush column?
Because he won't get any votes. He's not doing this to get people to cotton to the idea of a third party, this is All About Ralph.
Hi, I'm Ralph Nader. I'm so infatuated with my own navel that I can't see I'm about to guarantee our country will have four more years of high unemployment, rotten environmental "policies," war without end or reason, and tax cuts for the richest 1% of the country while the rest of America wishes it had the money for a doctor's visit.
Posted by: Patti M. at October 8, 2004 3:29 PMYes - this is different from 4 years ago. I can still envision a Perot-like scenario where he drops out at the last minute and tells his people to throw all their votes over to Kerry. But if he does that, it sort of calls into question why he wanted to get on the ballot in the first place, unless he just thrives on pissing people off, which seems to be the case.
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