Remember Ralph Nader? Scourged by the whip of democrat scorn and anger after Gore's loss of the 2000 elections, he seems to have faded into obscurity. Some democrats have even heaped all the ills of American domestic and foreign policy from 2000 onwards on his shoulders.
I'm not sure that's fair. As long as the the mainstay of Democrat election campaigns will remain "we are not Republican", even as candidates inch ever closer to the right, I don't think American foreign policy (or even domestic policy to a great degree) is going to be necessarily very different from Republican policy. Many of the Democrat winners of the 2006 elections could easily pass for Republicans in terms of their ideas and policies save one: public criticism of Bush. Now that 2006 is in the past even that dividing line isn't as thick as it used to be.
Here's an article on a documentary on Ralph Nader. I would be very interested in seeing it and if it reminds people that there was more to him than the sucking away of votes from Gore in 2000, so much the better.
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