Anyone else pissed at Ralph Nader?

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14. While we're all directing anger at a progressive icon, let's remember

that shrub and the felonious five stole the election for shrub. A media consortium (led by the NYTimes, I think) later went through the ballots and determined that under almost any combination of recount rules, gore won Florida and therefore the electoral college.

Shrub only won because the Supreme Court bizarrely ordered a halt to the recount and ordered Florida to certify the arbitrarily halted recount as final under the bizarre logic that more recount would violate equal protection because recounts weee don't differently in different counties (largely because they used different voting technologies in different counties, but the Supreme Court didn't find an equal protection problem with that).

Also remember that the republicans who controlled the Florida legislature had announced that they would invalidate the election, and either certify the shrub electors by an act of the legislature or send no electors, throwing the election into the house

Also remember that republicans in the house had announced that they would invalidate any gore electors from Florida, and either way the election got thrown into the house, they would elect shrub.

The fix was in, one way or another.

I disagree with nader's strategy of running in the first place, but I m really not sure things would have played out differently.

And even if we did get gore , who's to say we wouldn't have had had shrub for 8 years anyway, just delayed? One thing for sure, with hate radio and foxnews unopposed, we'd have continued down this road to fascism regardless.