July 24, 2004 — Consumer advocate Ralph Nader's quixotic presidential campaign says it submitted about 5,400 signatures to get on the Michigan ballot, far short of the required number of 30,000. Luckily for him, approximately 43,000 signatures were filed by Michigan Republicans on his behalf, more than meeting the requirement.
Absolutely nothing wrong with this. Certainly nothing to look down on Republicans for. Shit, if Pat Buchanan or Ross Perot thought again about running, I'd certainly sign a petition.
But for Nader, who continues to assert that he didn't cost Democrats the 2000 election, to continue to pretend he's a man of ethics and convictions when 99% of his support, both financially and otherwise, is coming from people who despise everything he claims he stands for, people who despise him, makes him worthy of being termed despicable.
Any man who would contribute to the dismantling of every single thing he claimed to believe in for his own personal vanity is a man of no convictions.
At this point, I doubt he ever believed in anything he ever fought for. I think he just liked the attention.
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