Ralph Nader's candidacy poses potential boon, not bane, for the Democrats for Election 2004 regardless of whether they pick John Kerry, John Edwards or Hillary Clinton.

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Ralph Nader's candidacy poses potential boon, not bane, for the Democrats for Election 2004 regardless of whether they pick John Kerry, John Edwards or Hillary Clinton.·

Ralph Nader's double game illustrates the intellectual contempt he holds for those whose interests he most ardently professes to serve-- the ordinary Americans he perceives as "victims" of the "two-party system" corrupted by "corporate" America. He, as has Hillary, has chosen a strategy to maximize opportunities for snatching eleventh hour victory from the jaws of defeat or victory.

Grossly exaggerating his disdain for the Democratic Party, with whose left wing he shares little significant disagreement, while attempting to also appeal to right-wing isolationists disapproving the War in Iraq and fiscal conservatives feeling contempt for what they see as Bush's attempt to buy support from the left of center with expanded social programs, Nader expects the coming election to make him King Maker in either 2004 or 2008. He knows the history of third-party movements is that real political power for such "movements" lies in strengthening the power of whatever wing of whichever party is politically more in sympathy with the goals of the "movement" and thereby shifting the center of gravity of that party towards the the "movement."

Nader can ride his strategic fence until shortly before the November election, but Hillary must get off the fence one way or the other long enough before the convention to foment a deadlock to enable her to determine whether to run for President in 2004 or, in the absence of a deadlock, to determine whether to make herself available to be "drafted" as the running mate of the nominee. Nader, Hillary, the Deaniacs, George Soros, MoveOn.Org, and the rest of the Entertainment Left have succumbed, as have many pundits, to the delusional belief that the country is still split 50/50 as it appeared to be in the 2000 election. Notwithstanding current polls purporting to show Bush losing to Kerry and/or Edwards, they are all wrong. The political center of gravity of the country has shifted to the right, not the left. What is now keeping Kerry higher in polling among people paying little attention to more than the bare headlines about the campaign is the facile assumption among those unfamiliar with Kerry's legislative record that his military heroism makes him a potentially tougher, or better, Commander in Chief for the war on terror than Bush.

Kerry has achieved short-term success in feigning outrage at, and characterizing as attacks on his "patriotism," accurate descriptions of his record of voting against expansion of, and for limitations on, military and intelligence programs which the political center of gravity wishes had been, and now wants to be, expanded. Such success will be short-lived as the nature of his voting record and political philosophy become more apparent to the center of gravity, which has, thus far, focused almost exclusively on his heroism in combat.

The Nader Nadir.·

I'm Ralph, and I'm running to save you
from Dubya's intent to enslave you
by warfare deportment
and Ashcroft's enforcement
of laws to restrict and degrade you.

By "warfare deportment" I mean
his "war" against terror to wean
our country away
from views that embrace
enforcement of law as the means.

My rant against "Ashcroft's enforcement"
means Patriot Action deployment
for searches by cops
of too many dots
for terror-connection deployments.

While Dems feign the fear that "for Nader
to run would for them spell their nadir,"
they know I've devised
October's Surprise:
Endorsement from theirs truly, Nader.

Nader's leap of faith in the belief that the political center of gravity has not shifted to the right is what drives his expectation of being the beneficiary of sufficient support by late October to hand victory to the Democratic nominee by withdrawing from the race and urging his supporters to vote for the Democratic nominee, by which strategy he would gain more effective control of the Left Wing of the Democratic Party and move its center of gravity even further to the Left. If (when) the election disproves his thesis that the country is still split down the middle rather than its political center of gravity having shifted to the right, the Democrats will be unable to malign him because it will be self-evident that his being in, or out, of the race would not have affected the outcome. Thus, for Nader, the strategy is "win/win."

Nader will perceive the 2004 loss by the Democratic nominee as proof of his thesis that the Democrats should embrace his brand of leftist "progressive" politics. However, political historians are more likely to view the years 2000 and 2004 as Nader's Nadirs.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com

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