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RFK Jr. Called Nader a Spoiler in 2000. Now That’s His Role.
He likewise declares Biden is an even worse risk to democracy than Trump. As constantly, it’s everything about Bobby.
CNN’s Erin Burnett is wise and constantly well-prepared (I utilized to appear on her program routinely). That revealed Monday night in her interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She did something I want I had actually believed to do: She returned and discovered his declarations knocking Ralph Nader, a male he stated he appreciated, for being a “spoiler” in 2000.
The interview is getting more attention for Kennedy’s firmly insisting, wrongly and despicably, that President Joe Biden is a higher danger to democracy than the twice-impeached, insurrection-fomenting, guaranteed Day One totalitarian Donald Trump. I’ll get to that.
Initially I desire to make sure we keep in mind Kennedy’s really exceptional denunciation of Nader as a “spoiler” in 2000. Whatever he stated about the previous customer crusader then uses to him today. He’s simply too egotistical to get it.
Burnett played part of an interview in which he informed NBC news, in late 2000, “There’s a political truth here, which is that his candidateship might draw adequate votes in specific essential states from Al Gore to offer the whole election to George W Bush.” That was prescient. In a New York City Times op-ed, he composed:
Ralph Nader is my good friend and hero, however his Green Party candidateship for the presidency might torpedo efforts to deal with the country’s essential ecological obstacles. The danger, naturally, is that Mr. Nader’s candidateship might siphon votes from Al G