Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: voting for Nader

[Carrol Cox]

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> I would submit that the space provided by Clinton was greater
> than Bush elder/Dole would have provided.
>
> Would progressive movements have been better off today if we had just had
> 8 years of Bush/Dole?

You glance at Chuck Grimes's argument (the only respectable argument for
voting Dem. I know of) that the Demireps make a better enemy than the the
Republicrats. I disagree but it is respectable. Now as to the "better off."
We might well have been able to fight off welfare reform with Bush and a
Democratic congress having to pretend to match the illusion that they are
progressive. And social security would be less at risk with  Bush/Dole. The
Dems are very apt to sneak through a wrecking program. Monica saved it last
time around. Who will save it if Gore is elected? And Republican
administrations are far worse on foreign policy. The only major exception to
a century of Democratic war making was the Gulf War, and Clinton has kept
that up.

Carrol