Title: Nader redux: A spoiler then and a spoiler now
Description: Even Dog S--t will denigrate in time.
Description: Even Dog S--t will denigrate in time.
al001 - February 3, 2008 03:56 PM (GMT)
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/681146.html
Editorial:
Nader redux: A spoiler then and a spoiler now
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, February 3, 2008
Some people are never satisfied. Take Ralph Nader, for instance.
Apparently not content with having helped put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000, Nader is now making noises about running for president this year. He has launched an official exploratory committee and told various news organizations last week that he will decide in about a month whether he will run.
Nader, who has become the Harold Stassen of the consumer protection movement, regards himself as the natural heir to the campaigns of Democrats John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. He sees Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as corporate tools and not much different from Republicans. It seems that only he is pure enough to serve in the White House.
Not surprisingly, Nader is trying to inoculate himself against charges that he would enter in the race as a spoiler.
"Political bigotry will be the label on anybody who uses the word 'spoiler,' " he told CNN last week. "Because 'spoiler' means minor candidates are second-class citizens. Either we have an equal right to run for election, or we are spoilers for each other trying to get each other's votes."
Democratic and independent voters are apt to take a different view. In 2000, Nader got more than 100,000 votes in Florida, a state in which Bush beat Democrat Al Gore by about 500 disputed votes. It's reasonable to assume that without Nader in the race, Gore would have won Florida – and with it, the presidency.
Nader is free to run for any office he chooses, despite ample evidence that voters consider him unelectable at any speed. But it will take more than the huffy threat of being called bigots to keep voters from regarding him as a spoiler. That's what he was eight years ago. And it's the only role he can play if he enters the race this year.
Naders Ego, Ego, Ego is beyond belief and it is sickening.
Editorial:
Nader redux: A spoiler then and a spoiler now
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, February 3, 2008
Some people are never satisfied. Take Ralph Nader, for instance.
Apparently not content with having helped put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000, Nader is now making noises about running for president this year. He has launched an official exploratory committee and told various news organizations last week that he will decide in about a month whether he will run.
Nader, who has become the Harold Stassen of the consumer protection movement, regards himself as the natural heir to the campaigns of Democrats John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich. He sees Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as corporate tools and not much different from Republicans. It seems that only he is pure enough to serve in the White House.
Not surprisingly, Nader is trying to inoculate himself against charges that he would enter in the race as a spoiler.
"Political bigotry will be the label on anybody who uses the word 'spoiler,' " he told CNN last week. "Because 'spoiler' means minor candidates are second-class citizens. Either we have an equal right to run for election, or we are spoilers for each other trying to get each other's votes."
Democratic and independent voters are apt to take a different view. In 2000, Nader got more than 100,000 votes in Florida, a state in which Bush beat Democrat Al Gore by about 500 disputed votes. It's reasonable to assume that without Nader in the race, Gore would have won Florida – and with it, the presidency.
Nader is free to run for any office he chooses, despite ample evidence that voters consider him unelectable at any speed. But it will take more than the huffy threat of being called bigots to keep voters from regarding him as a spoiler. That's what he was eight years ago. And it's the only role he can play if he enters the race this year.
Naders Ego, Ego, Ego is beyond belief and it is sickening.
JamesAquila - February 3, 2008 05:02 PM (GMT)
I wonder if he'll accept GOP and use it to lie about the Dem nominee like he did in 2000.
trueconservative - February 3, 2008 06:43 PM (GMT)
If McCaine wins, then I suggest Ralph Nader be strapped onto a 'bunker buster' bomb and be dropped on Teheran FIRST! Nader is an idiot of he thinks he will even get the votes he did get in 2000. That is why the Greens dumped him. He made them all look like a pack of fools!
Ralph Nader needs to sit down and shut up!
Ralph Nader needs to sit down and shut up!
The Paraclete - February 5, 2008 01:00 PM (GMT)
I agree...Nader WILL look like a FOOL! Just like every other time the idiot ran for President! :tongue:
tkdveg - February 8, 2008 05:19 PM (GMT)
I just got an e-mail from a Green Party friend, trying to convince me to back Nader!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen!!! :laugh: :laugh:
"He don't know me very well, do he?" B.B.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Yeah, like THAT's gonna happen!!! :laugh: :laugh:
"He don't know me very well, do he?" B.B.