My vote belonged to Nader every time he ran.

Fascinating reality is that I DID NOT VOTE FOR CLINTON, and CERTAINLY did not vote for BUSH. I was among the “idiots” who didn’t realize there were other candidates WORTH voting for.

CERTAINLY I had heard of Ralph Nader in the sixties and seventies when I was a high school student and a college student. CERTAINLY he was a HOUSEHOLD NAME at that time, although MY family did not ever talk about him, to my knowledge. My family was “Republican.” They did NOT ever talk about POLITICS!

Enough said.

When I was old enough to vote, I did not register Republican, and since I was “somehow” (since they did not talk politics) indoctrinated into the belief that Democrats wanted handouts and were welfare promoters and not backers of the proper meritorious, competitive, “earn what you get” and WORK HARD to GET LUCKY….supposedly the Republican ethic…I did not see that as just in the view of the Vietnam War, which made no sense to me, and seemed interference, and nothing but that. I registered INDEPENDENT when I first registered. At that time, there were only primaries for those in parties, and , so, I developed the habit of not bothering with watching what was going on while the TWO PARTIES created the ONLY supposed choices “available” to the voting majority!!!!! as a “reality check” (talking about 1970 forward until I did not vote for Clinton or Bush, and thought I was bad, but KNEW I did not affirmatively want either of them.

So, Those Who “believe” my VOTE does not belong to Ralph Nader if and when he runs, or ran, are offensive against all proper view of meritorious competitive voting and the proper view of the TRUTH of the corrupt media powermongering and railroading of the two parties AGAINST the public and their PROPER voting power.

My vote BELONGS to ME, for the BEST candidate, and I vote for that candidate. I did not know when I did not vote for Clinton that Nader had seen the urgency of his CHALLENGE to the STATUS QUO of powermongering and corruption against the majority public interest…

I love Ralph Nader and everything he stands for!

Elizabeth
Cambridge, MA

I knew I would love the film, but I was also very excited that not only did you manage to cram in a decent amount of his career, and get a variety of viewpoints, but you had factual stuff in it I haven’t come across in the biographies I’ve read. And I don’t mean just the 2004 stuff.

My mother and I have been getting as many people out as we can, but the limited time it’s at the theater makes it difficult, so we’ll be sure to re-recommend it to all our friends again when it’s released through Netflix.

Good luck with the rest of your releases!!

Thanks, guys, for making this excellent movie.

~Amit

I love Ralph. My democrat friends make excuses that he’s just another politician that can’t really be trusted, but I know the truth. His life’s work is no politicians work. To say that he is a modern day Robin Hood doesn’t do him justice, but that’s all I can think of to compare him to. My friends don’t see this, but I do. Those of us that get it are shakers and revolutionaries. We know the long fight for truth and justice is worth the sacrifices we face in the present. I am proud I voted for Ralph. Both times.

I will always remember the Democratic Party establishment as being plagued with such astonishing hubris that they assume all non-conservatives will automatically vote for them. I, for one, would rather stay home than vote for a Democrat.

The fact is that we have Hillary Clinton to thank for the Iraq War, Nancy Pelosi to thank for the Patriot Act, and Barbara Lee and Ted Kennedy to thank for the No Child Left Behind Act. The fact is that we have former President Bill Clinton to thank for the loss of our First Amendment right of peaceable assembly. It was Clinton that began the policy of “free speech zones”, the practice of caging protesters a mile away from their desired destination.

I still have a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach that began when I saw the film “An Unreasonable Man”. The movie shows in detail how Nader was ordered to leave the vicinity of the 2000 presidential ‘debate’. Despite holding a valid ticket to the event, Nader was threatened with arrest if he did not vacate the area. It was a chilling scene indeed, and one that made me feel as if I was living in North Korea or China, not the United States. Of course, this horrifying incident happened while none other than Democrat Bill Clinton was President.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

As is cited in these comments, 250,000 registered Dems in FLA. voted for Dubya. That is it right there. Game over, Ralph did not cost Gore the election.

Further, even if you accept the phony 537 margin in the official mainstream media spin, why do these Dems ignore Greg Palast’s superb reporting that the election was stolen? Because they didn’t see it on CBS? Are these folks so weak in their search capabilities or unable to actually find news on their own?

Finally, there’s the fact that Gore couldn’t even win his home state! Pathetic.

I hold on to my Nader signs, buttons, poll watcher credentials as a remembrance of a brave stand in my life. My vote for Nader was not for a spoiler; it was for a legitimate candidate, the only worthwhile candidate running in 2000. To echo Teresa S.’s view above, Gore lost his presidency. He pandered his presidency away, most notably during the controversy over the Cuban boy crisis in Miami. He thumbed his nose at President Clinton, feigning disgust over his sexacapades, admittedly tawdry acts but enhanced by Republican vigor. His disloyalty robbed him of his competitive resources…not to mention his fear of being upstaged by a more natural politician. Both Gore and the Democratic Party failed to inspire and they lost–no, they abandoned–the progressives, the unions, the working stiffs because they fell in love with the center, with aping Republicans and repelling liberalism.

Bush is not to be blamed on Nader–or those voting for Nader. If the Democrats and Gore can’t learn from this error, then history may repeat itself.