How is Ralph Nader perceived in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pied piper of voter destruction.

Really, without Nader Gore would have easily been president (which is why Rove and the GOP helped Nader).
I blame Nader.
And I think everyone under 45 or so I've talked to feels similar. The people who remember his consumer protection stuff are people like me - older now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pied piper of voter destruction.

Really, without Nader Gore would have easily been president (which is why Rove and the GOP helped Nader).
I blame Nader.
And I think everyone under 45 or so I've talked to feels similar. The people who remember his consumer protection stuff are people like me - older now.

I'm almost 50 and every time someone raved about Bernie Sanders to me in the last election all I could think of was the Nader vote ruining that 2000 election. F*cking protest votes, my #ss. That's how I remember/perceive Nader -- the person who made the hanging chad bs possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What? Gore would have been a hugely good and effective president.

Bush lied us into a war and put it on a credit card. Thousands of American kids were killed for — and it pains me to say this — no reason. Americans. Killed. Because Bush and his neocon team had literally no idea how the fricking world works. “Welcomed as liberators” - those god fool morons.

We wasted over a trillion on the Iraq war and the beneficiaries were the DeVos and Cheney families.

And Nader wrought that disaster. That’s why Rove kicked him some money and some ads in that election.

GW Bush was the second worst president in our history.

Mmmmmm. No.

If Gore would’ve been president, we would’ve nothing after 9/11(except lob a few cruise missiles and blow up some tents and goat herds), which would’ve set the stage for a nuclear sequel to 9/11, just as soon as Bin Laden could buy a device from A Q Khan. We needed to go to war, and Gore wouldn’t have done that. Bush was the right president at the right time.

Had 9/11 not occurred, then yes, Gore probably would’ve been a better president. But he didn’t get elected, and it turned out to be a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pied piper of voter destruction.

Really, without Nader Gore would have easily been president (which is why Rove and the GOP helped Nader).
I blame Nader.
And I think everyone under 45 or so I've talked to feels similar. The people who remember his consumer protection stuff are people like me - older now.

Can't prove this because you assume a vote for Nader is a vote taken away from Gore. That's not necessarily the case. A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader, nothing more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pied piper of voter destruction.

Really, without Nader Gore would have easily been president (which is why Rove and the GOP helped Nader).
I blame Nader.
And I think everyone under 45 or so I've talked to feels similar. The people who remember his consumer protection stuff are people like me - older now.

Whoever wrote the below is CLEARLY not a data person, or an economist.

Can't prove this because you assume a vote for Nader is a vote taken away from Gore. That's not necessarily the case. A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader, nothing more.

Basically you're saying something silly -- that nothing is knowable except the things you touch.

Come on, man.
We have this thing called probability, and another thing called data science. I'm not going to explain to you how probability works, but if you like, I can recommend a good text or two.

Here's the bottom line:
Nader elected Bush. Without Nader, Gore would have won.

I'd go further and say Nader bears responsibility for the thousands of American kids that got killed in Iraq, and Cheney and Erik Prince looting the American taxpayer, but I think the statement above is enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pied piper of voter destruction.

Really, without Nader Gore would have easily been president (which is why Rove and the GOP helped Nader).
I blame Nader.
And I think everyone under 45 or so I've talked to feels similar. The people who remember his consumer protection stuff are people like me - older now.

Whoever wrote the below is CLEARLY not a data person, or an economist.

Can't prove this because you assume a vote for Nader is a vote taken away from Gore. That's not necessarily the case. A vote for Nader is a vote for Nader, nothing more.

Basically you're saying something silly -- that nothing is knowable except the things you touch.

Come on, man.
We have this thing called probability, and another thing called data science. I'm not going to explain to you how probability works, but if you like, I can recommend a good text or two.

Here's the bottom line:
Nader elected Bush. Without Nader, Gore would have won.

I'd go further and say Nader bears responsibility for the thousands of American kids that got killed in Iraq, and Cheney and Erik Prince looting the American taxpayer, but I think the statement above is enough.

Now you're being silly.

[Anonymous]

Nader is an egotistical has been. Should be put in a barrel with geriatric losers including both Clintons, Biden and Bernie and set adrift.

[Anonymous]

Nader was bad for America, no doubt. So is Jill Stein.
I’d put him into a box with geriatric enemies of America like Adelson, Koch, Murdoch, and Uiline.

[Anonymous]

I live here and work in local govt. people either forget he exists or think he is an idiot. No one like how he tried to insert himself into discussions about local libraries. He is a has been who never really was anything to begin with. Non entity or just nuisance idiot is the perception OP.