Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Kerry's anti-war actions after getting back from Vietnam were actually one of the things that drew me to him back when there were 9 candidates in the race.
but with his voting on GWI and GWII, his stance on Minimal sentencing, and other such nonesense, how can you overlook that?
I don't blame him for being anti-war after Vietnam. Most everyone was. That was a fawked up deal.
Anyway as for Nader, there were essentially two groups of voters I noticed for him back in 2000.
First you had more left-leaning folks that would generally vote for a democrat but decided to go for Nader since they didn't think a bumbling idiot like Bush would actually get elected. Also they were sort of complacent since they thought Gore was a shoe-in what with being the vice president of a two-term incumbent. So they figured it was a good time to make a statement. Stuff like the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve and Nader running with the Green party energized the environmentalists.
The other group were your sort of anti establishment hippie types that can't actually participate in a political dialogue and wanted to vote Nader because of some stoned musings about how "the two parties are all the same, man!" I was pretty stoned at the time myself so don't think these kind of views are simply the product of enjoying a good toke now and again. I like to call this group the stoners in the absence of logic, as opposed to logicians that like to get stoned.
heh, if I thought you were talking about me, I'd might actually get mad.
of course, this being the internet, and you not knowing very much about me, I have no reason to be mad.
you're just ignorant.