Please forward widely. Especially to staff of Kerry and Nader. Please forward up the chain of command!

 

I have gotten some heated replies to my first message on this topic. See:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/1069

 

We need some discussion nationwide of this. What else is more important than this election anyway? A Kerry-Nader deal on some issues, and a Nader endorsement of Kerry, would get Kerry elected, and would make progress on the negotiated issues. I doubt Bush would endorse any of the issues. :)

 

If someone can show me somewhere online where Nader previously promised to endorse Gore or Kerry if they made a deal, then I will broadcast that far and wide. If not, then this has not been tried before (at least not publicly), and so I will keep promoting this idea of issue negotiation. See the list of non-partisan issues here:

 

In any case I don't think Nader should drop out. The voters who refused to vote for Kerry (even after Nader's endorsement of Kerry) would still go to the polls and vote for Nader. Those same progressive voters would also probably help vote in a more progressive Congress. Otherwise they may not go to the polls without Nader on the ballot. And Nader on the ballot keeps the Democrats honest and from becoming totally corporatist.

 

At the same time no matter what Nader does I will keep encouraging people to vote for Kerry if he endorses runoff elections. Which many people have requested Kerry do. He hasn't done it. I, and others, have requested it many times at the JohnKerry.com forums. I also explained that this would lock in hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of votes for Kerry.

 

It is a non-partisan idea, and I just don't understand why Kerry will not endorse runoff elections. Unless the Democrat Party is so against 3rd parties that they are willing to lose the election.

 

Nader's issues are not irrelevant. In fact he is dead on correct. The problem is how to get some progress on those issues.

 

Unless either Nader or Kerry make the first step, then the Democrats may lose another election, and many people will be even angrier with Nader, and progress will not really be made on Nader's critical issues. 

 

I think it is Kerry who has the most to lose and should be endorsing some of the non-partisan ideas I listed at the beginning of this thread.

 

The bottom line is that the Nader voters could determine this election. And they need REASONS to vote for Kerry beyond the "anyone but Bush" logic. I know that this is not enough of a reason for many Nader voters. Why do I know? Because I voted for Nader in 2000.

 

I will probably vote for Kerry this election. Because of his non-typical-Democrat view on cutting middle-class taxes, and spending. And because of NORML's and MPP's flunking of Bush. But to many Nader voters these are not good enough reasons. They are only barely enough of a reason for me to vote for Kerry.

 

Independent and Nader voters need more reasons to vote for Kerry.

 

My webpage on some of this:

http://corporatism.tripod.com/kerry.htm and
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/kerry.htm

 

----------

 

JohnKerry.com forums.

*My profile and my posts at JohnKerry.com forums:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showuser=35143 and
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?act=Search&CODE=getalluser&mid=35143

*JohnKerry.com forum with busy marijuana decriminalization threads:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showforum=11 ~
A thread with Administrator1 intro summary comparing the cannabis views of Kerry and Bush:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=62486 

*Links for copying and pasting into forum discussions: 
NORML and MPP.org 2004 voter guides for all presidential candidates.
NORML on all 2004 presidential candidates. With thumbs down on Bush:
http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5895 ~
Marijuana Policy Project. MPP.org grades Kerry an A-, Bush an F:
http://www.mpp.org/candidates/guide

My signature block attached to some JohnKerry.com forum messages:

Bush, it's the taxes, stupid. 

"Cut Middle-Class Taxes To Raise Middle-Class Incomes. 
When John Kerry is president, middle-class taxes will go down. Ninety-eight percent of all Americans and 99 percent of American businesses will get a tax cut under the Kerry-Edwards plan."
-- The above quote (emphasis added) comes from this page:
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy
To make it happen Kerry will roll back the Bush tax cut for the wealthy, and will prioritize and cut spending:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0407b.html
Bushwhacked economy:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-16-income-disparity_x.htm

 ----------------------------------------

Ralph Nader.

*My webpage on Ralph Nader and drug reform. From Greens to today:
http://www.corporatism.netfirms.com/greens.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/greens.htm

-----------------------------------------