And more, to wit:

Poll after poll has shown that something like 70% of Nader voters would have voted for NO ONE in 2000 if he hadn't been a candidate. And that includes in Florida. Many of the people who voted for him - like your's truly - did so in states that were safe for Gore. There is just not one ounce of credibility to the "Ralph Did It" line of argument about 2000.

If you want to feel "unbridle rage" at someone, Scott, feel it for the Felonious Five on the Supreme Court who handed the election to Bush.

You, sir, nailed it. I've been saying the same things for months, but no one seems to listen. I even made a video about it. Click my name to watch it, and pay close attention to the comments section. It's instructive.

But sadly, both John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich are out of the race. And Nader? He's going to get horse-whipped over the false claim that the last eight years are somehow his fault. It's a damn shame.

Just a few things:

1. If you're going to have comment rating, PLEASE don't do what YouTube did and set it up so that if a comment gets X number of negative ratings it disappears. That has been grossly abused over there, and would be a mistake here.

2. DON'T create a MARK AS SPAM button that makes a posting invisible. See above.

3. DO include an IGNORE button!

And thanks again!

Buckley created the intellectual underpinnings - such as they were - that gird the modern right-wing movement. Ann Coulter, Patrick Buchanan, Et. Al. are HIS children, however much he might have wanted to repudiate them, and vice-versa. He sowed the wind, but tried to deny the whirlwind. His spawn are right about him - he was a kind of coward in the end, an intellectual one.

...here is the debate from '69 when Chomsky handed his ass to him, then hoisted him by his own petard. Please notice who DIDN'T need a legal pad to keep track:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlMEVTa-PI

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Samvw6Z08