In the process of checking for previous Nader threads, I discovered interesting reading but nothing all that timely (2004 is a while ago), so I'm starting a new one. Feel free to combine it with another one.

        
Nader: Fearful Democrats on Defeatist Path

"Republicans criticize Democrats in Congress for being too liberal, but consumer activist and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader criticizes them for being too conservative.

"If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear of the craven and cruel corporatist Republicans who dominate them," he writes on his web site. "But they don't, so we have to ask why their fear, defeatism, and cowering behavior continue in the face of the outrageous GOP actions as the November election approaches."

Republicans have won over voters with their passion, Nader says. "To paraphrase author and lapsed Republican, Kevin Phillips, the Republicans go for the jugular, while the Democrats go for the capillaries."

Breaking from Newsmax.com

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I am not a registered Democrat but I nearly always vote for that party. In the last few election campaigns I have felt strongly about our choices - no way would I have voted Republican. That has not changed.

However, I tend to agree with Nader- Democratic opposition to the outrages antics of Republican candidates has been lukewarm to downright tepid. In my opinion, the run-up to Romney's selection will go down in the history books as ranging from ludicrous to criminal. (Unless the next election cycle is even worse; seems that what has been happening in recent years.) Why the Democrats have not been able to capitalize on it is beyond me. Romney the best of that insane line-up? Don't make me giggle.

I find myself in this election year feeling that if the Democrats lose to Romney's laughable machine, it serves them right.