(np) big O, say it isn't so...

[kelber at mindspring.com]

What the people who rage at Nader for stealing votes from the Democrats don't get is that most of us who voted for him were protest voters.  If he hadn't been on the ballot, we would have written in a protest candidate.  I voted for my local pizza maker once, because I knew that the Democrat (Charles Schumer) was the front-runner, and the fuck wasn't getting my vote.  And much as I loathe Bloomberg, I wasn't going to vote for the hack the Dems put up to run against him (who was a sure loser), so I wrote in a friend's name.

Yes, I'd think about it carefully if I lived in a swing state, but if Obama needed the vote of a fringe lefty like myself to carry NY, he'd have no chance of winning the swing states.  And yeah, I held my nose and voted for Obama the last general election, but no way I'd vote for him and his drones, and his bank cronies and his General Electric cronies, and his insurance industry cronies, and his equivocations about abortion rights and gay marriage this time around.  Fortunately, his campaign has figured they can do without the lefty vote, and, accordingly are doing nothing to court it.  It's an amicable divorce.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 28, 2012 12:19 PM
>To: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>Cc: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: (np) big O, say it isn't so...
>
>My guess was correct.  But at least she had a practical strategy.
>
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  She probably voted for Nader in 2000.  She's bought into the "there's no difference between the two" lie.
>
>
>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:47:39 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>From: kelber@[omitted]
>To: mikebailey@[omitted], pynchon-l@[omitted]
>Subject: Re: NP:spy on your neighbors
>
>I actually voted for Edwards in the NY Democratic primary, because he
>was the only viable alternative to Kerry.  In the general election, I
>voted for Nader, as a protest -- knowing my individual vote was
>rendered irrelevant by the Electoral College and the Supreme Court.
>Had I lived in a swing state, I would have held my nose and voted for
>Kerry.