The Whine Continues
Aug. 11th, 2004 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyIn the bathroom this morning I stumbled (see previous post, 'sleeplessness') and somehow skinned the very tip of my pinky toe! I can feel it every time I take a step.
Between that and Groucho Marx-style speed-walking over two consecutive nights of laser tag, I'm not moving very spryly today. Unless Orson Welles with a hangover can be considered spry.
But at least I'm not Ralph Nader! (And how's that for a segue?) Today's Globe reports that now it's not just bitter Democrats; Republican flunkies are placing Gore's loss on his shoulders!
For the past 10 days, temporary workers hired by Norway Hill Associates, a Hancock firm headed up by a well-known GOP consultant, have been collecting signatures for Nader around New Hampshire. Last Friday, about a dozen workers buttonholed Bush supporters in the parking lot outside a Stratham farm where the president was speaking. They were armed with talking points instructing them to remind reluctant Republicans that "without Nader, Bush would not be president."
"In 2000 Nader got almost 30,000 votes; without his presence Al Gore would be president today," the talking points state. The talking points also instruct the workers to sidestep questions about who is paying them by responding that "Nader's campaign pays 75 cents a signature."
Bush defeated Al Gore by 7,000 votes in 2000; if Gore had won New Hampshire, the Granite State's four electoral votes would have sent him to the White House.
This is from the article "GOP is accused of aiding Nader", online at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/11/gop_is_accused_of_aiding_nader/
Between that and Groucho Marx-style speed-walking over two consecutive nights of laser tag, I'm not moving very spryly today. Unless Orson Welles with a hangover can be considered spry.
But at least I'm not Ralph Nader! (And how's that for a segue?) Today's Globe reports that now it's not just bitter Democrats; Republican flunkies are placing Gore's loss on his shoulders!
For the past 10 days, temporary workers hired by Norway Hill Associates, a Hancock firm headed up by a well-known GOP consultant, have been collecting signatures for Nader around New Hampshire. Last Friday, about a dozen workers buttonholed Bush supporters in the parking lot outside a Stratham farm where the president was speaking. They were armed with talking points instructing them to remind reluctant Republicans that "without Nader, Bush would not be president."
"In 2000 Nader got almost 30,000 votes; without his presence Al Gore would be president today," the talking points state. The talking points also instruct the workers to sidestep questions about who is paying them by responding that "Nader's campaign pays 75 cents a signature."
Bush defeated Al Gore by 7,000 votes in 2000; if Gore had won New Hampshire, the Granite State's four electoral votes would have sent him to the White House.
This is from the article "GOP is accused of aiding Nader", online at http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/08/11/gop_is_accused_of_aiding_nader/
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Date: 2004-08-11 08:09 am (UTC)Nader
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Date: 2004-08-11 08:34 am (UTC)Makes me ashamed to be a registered Republican.
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Date: 2004-08-11 08:35 am (UTC)