Nader running again??

[Tony]

Uh oh! Has anyone heard about this? Ok Darrel, let me have it! LOL.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_el_pr/nader

[ChristianLoeschel]

Oh god, I guess that seals McCain as the president :/

[Doug]

DOUG
I'd heard he'd been making noises suggesting a run for months. But I don't think anyone will take it seriously.

The article says:
"Though he won 2.7 percent of the national vote as the Green Party candidate in 2000, Nader won just 0.3 percent as an independent in 2004, when he appeared on the ballot in only 34 states."

Nader mania is as strong as Obama mania, but only about 1,000 people have it.

So his "run" would be inconsequential. He won't be a spoiler this time, for sure.

[Dardedar]

DAR
I wish Nader would do something useful. Why does he insist on making a fool of himself in his old age?

[Tony]

Well, character assassinations aside, he did spend a lifetime being useful, fighting corporations, making our cars safer, being harrassed and investigated for it.
Maybe he is just out on a twilight years lark. Who knows.

[Dardedar]

DAR
I wouldn't find it completely implausible that Nader does this to get more (and the attention of course). Republicans are going to send him a lot of money. It seems to me that anyone who would vote for him now would be a person who otherwise wouldn't vote. So, a person who has voluntarily made their voice irrelevant. Naderites were relevant for a brief moment in 2000 when they gave us Bush. That's the Nader legacy: Bush. Oh, and he has damaged the Green Party. As one person put it:

He also has a bad record abandoning efforts that he has started. The Greens who are perhaps a worthwhile idea -- were silly to put their faith into the Nader machine -- because it's a lot of self promotion and not a lot of substance. His legacy is that he may have set their organizing efforts back by about 15 years.

Huckabee states the obvious, Nader is a republican operative:

"Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, speaking shortly before Nader's announcement, said Nader's past runs have shown that he usually pulls votes from the Democratic nominee. "So naturally, Republicans would welcome his entry into the race," the former Arkansas governor said on CNN." --Link

D.
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Comment in a Blog:

"The greatest irony in all of this is that George W.'s second greatest legacy (behind you know what you know where) will be his dismantling of consumer protections in this country. Yes, it's happened through temporary appointments to the heads of various regulatory agencies, but more importantly through permanent judicial appointments (not to mention Karl Rove's ongoing project to take over state appellate courts for business interests). The end result is a simultaneous end to consumer protection torts and at least temporary halt to any form of regulation. And that's before you throw in tort reform legislation.

So maybe Nader didn't cost Gore the election on election day[sic]. But his campaign mantra that there was no difference between the two major candidates cost the nation plenty, and Bush proved Nader wrong by directly attacking the areas in which Nader had the most success in his prior career."

[Tony]

Dar wrote:

Huckabee states the obvious, Nader is a republican operative:

Not to open up our long running debate, but aren't you overstating the case a little bit? You don't think I'm a Republican operative do you? Heh.

Tony

[Dardedar]

DAR
Not in word, but in deed. Absolutely. And that's what counts.

[Dardedar]