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:: Thursday, December 25, 2003 :: The Nader question mark Election Matters:"So why go independent? Critics (and even former supporters) say this is just the latest evidence that Nader is on an extended ego trip. But that's a simplistic calculation. Nader has an ego, but his presidential ambitions have always been guided by a firm, and hardly irrational, belief that both major parties are corrupted--the Republicans beyond repair and the Democrats not much better. Nader wants to upset the country's politics just as he upset the corporate world with his unsafe-at-any-speed activism of the 1960s. There's little point in questioning his sincerity. There is, however, good reason to question his strategy. "I'm all for as many candidates running as possible and I don't regret voting green in 2000 (moderate voters should be the target audience of the Democrats; not us wimpy leftist) I just know I for one won't waste my time, money, or vote on anybody but a Dem (unless for some freakish reason you do get a republican in blue clothing like Lieberman). And I am planning on throwing all three (time, money, vote) into the mix this year.
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