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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Remember how it turned out the GOP was financing Nader? [View all]Gothmog
(145,231 posts)13. Rove funded Nader's campaign
For some funny reason, Karl Rove funded Nader in 2000 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/ralph-nader-was-indispens_b_4235065.html
Furthermore, Karl Rove and the Republican Party knew this, and so they nurtured and crucially assisted Nader's campaigns, both in 2000 and in 2004. On 27 October 2000, the AP's Laura Meckler headlined "GOP Group To Air Pro-Nader TV Ads." She opened: "Hoping to boost Ralph Nader in states where he is threatening to hurt Al Gore, a Republican group is launching TV ads featuring Nader attacking the vice president [Mr. Gore]. ... 'Al Gore is suffering from election year delusion if he thinks his record on the environment is anything to be proud of,' Nader says [in the commercial]. An announcer interjects: 'What's Al Gore's real record?' Nader says: 'Eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken.'" Meckler's report continued: "A spokeswoman for the Green Party nominee said that his campaign had no control over what other organizations do with Nader's speeches." Bush's people - the group sponsoring this particular ad happened to be the Republican Leadership Council - knew exactly what they were doing, even though the liberal suckers who voted so carelessly for Ralph Nader obviously did not. Anyone who drives a car the way those liberal fools voted, faces charges of criminal negligence, at the very least. But this time, the entire nation crashed as a result; not merely a single car.
This is from the GOP bag of dirty tricks that worked once and Rove has been running attack ads against Clinton but not Sanders. Again the GOP knows which candidate is the weakest general election candidate
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Remember when Kerry received from GOP donors at a rate 10 times that of Nader?
Luminous Animal
May 2016
#15
For the purpose of defeating Republicans. Nader took their money to defeat Democrats
arely staircase
May 2016
#17
Yes. For money to defeat Donald Trump. Nader took their money to defeat AL Gore.
arely staircase
May 2016
#20
Of course but not for the reasons of beating bush, just to suppress Gore numbers but you know that
uponit7771
May 2016
#28
I doubt they need to do that, Trump simply repeats everything that Bernie
The_Casual_Observer
May 2016
#27