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• 1 Robert Milnes // Jul 4, 2009 at 4:01 am

  Ok. No comments. So I do not feel guilty about hijacking this thread. Paulie, I appreciate you. But why did you post this like it is news?

• 2 Robert Milnes // Jul 4, 2009 at 4:08 am

  This just further makes my point. Nader repeated his mistake by running again in 2008. The reactionary duopoly has an extremely powerful advantade to win in the U.S. The ONLY viable option I have found is to coordinate the progressive & libertarian vote into a combined bloc of optimally around 40%. This would provide a reliable margin of victory on EVERY ballot. The dems & reps could be swept out of office. A PROGRESSIVE instead of REACTIONARY government could be nonviolently installed.

• 3 Robert Milnes // Jul 4, 2009 at 4:10 am

  40/30/30. Progressive or libertarian/democrat/republican.

• 4 Robert Milnes // Jul 4, 2009 at 4:18 am

  TR was a republican. 1912 27%. Second place. There was no LP back then. He basically did not appeal to the democratic progressives enough to draw them away from the democratic party sufficiently. If he had selected a progressive democrat for vp, he might have. That would have been a fusion ticket. That evidently is the key to vote coordination for the split progressive party. That is why I, relating to the progressive left, have been looking for a woman libertarian for vp on my ticket. Karen Kwiatkowski presently is my top pick. Let’s draft her!

• 5 paulie // Jul 5, 2009 at 9:41 am

  Paulie, I appreciate you. But why did you post this like it is news?

  I wanted to post something about Nader and did not have time to do a search, so I posted what was readily available to me at that moment.

  You’ll note that elsewhere, Don Lake and others have criticized that we have too many posts about Libertarians.

  At that moment, Matt was asking me to repost his essay and I had not yet posted anything about the LPA convention I went to and participated in, and the previous post(s) had been about LP, so I wanted to put an article about Greens and one about Nader before I posted a couple of LP articles that people were asking me to do.

  This is not the first time we have posted old videos – just because they are not new does not mean they are not new to us or many of the people reading. I’ve posted some about Nader among others, and this is clearly identified as being from 2004.

  The attitudes demonstrated herein are still live issues today.

• 6 Robert Milnes // Jul 6, 2009 at 8:42 pm

  paulie, very well. agreed.

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