Hubert Humphrey had no plan to get out of the war and would have ended up Nixon if he had won. Anderson had little if any effect on the 1980 election. That loss was related to Iran. Nader didn't give us George Bush. Jeb Bush did, by purging black voters. The Contras wouldn't have been able to operate without the help of Scoop Jackson Dems. The same Dems that are trying to pull one over on us now.
"Hubert Humphrey had no plan to get out of the war and would have ended up Nixon if he had won. Anderson had little if any effect on the 1980 election. That loss was related to Iran. Nader didn't give us George Bush. Jeb Bush did, by purging black voters. The Contras wouldn't have been able to operate without the help of Scoop Jackson Dems. The same Dems that are trying to pull one over on us now."
Even if Humphrey had been no better than Nixon on the war, he would have been better in every other way. Reagan got barely more than 50% of the vote. If Anderson voters had worked for Carter instead of wasting their time on a 3rd party fantasy, Carter would have had a real chance to retain office. The same for Nader's supporters; it wouldn't have been close enough for the Republicans to steal.
When we let Republicans run things into the ground, the progressive we get to fix things at best brings us back to where we were before the Republicans ruined everything.
your friend Keith
Nixon was a moderate in comparison to most republicans today, and the cost of the war would have made it unlikely that Humphrey would have accomplished anything particularly liberal. The Anderson voters were not the margin of Victory for Carter and nothing could have overcome the Carter's inablility to get the hostages back. If Nader hadn't been in it Jeb just would have stolen more votes. Having said that I advocate not voting at all, not a third party strategy. Then the democrats can't blame the fucking third party and they start examining their stupid candidates, and their political advisors, the non voters of the last election had much more impact on the democrats than the Naderites did..
