Can Nader still run on the Green Ticket?

[cryofan]

I think this is a really stupid move for him. Now he has to get on more state ballots.

Plus, he is 70 years old. He will not likely be able to run in 2008. He is just wasting a chance to give the Green Party a shot at some great media PR. Maybe it is just an ego trip for him. Doesn't he realize that he is missing a chance to strengthen the strongest 3rd party out there?

Is is possible that he could still get on the Green Ticket?

[mdmc]

1. sure

if the greens want him

[everythingsxen]

2. He is only running...

to ensure a Bush victory. He is a minion of the darkside now. He has been since at least 2000.

[cryofan]

6. that is so sad...you REALLY believe that?

This guy is 70 years old, becomes the world's most well known consumer advocate, and he finally winds up as some sort of GOP puppet, huh?

[KG]

8. there are those that find comfort in the fantasy of RN being g.o.p.

easier than facing up to how much the dem. party aids and abets the GOP in the corporate takeover of america.

[Zero Gravitas]

10. He certainly behaves as if he was

[KG]

3. seems the greens want to run an actual party member this time.

:)

[messiah]

7. Nope, Nader wanted to get in early

the Greens will not nominate a presidential candidate until June.

[Cicero]

4. I think a lot of the Greens have soured on him

Lots of people on the left side of the fence blame him for Bush43. And Rush Limbaugh was chortling away, today.

Myself, I don't think he's going to have nearly as big an impact this time as in 2000. If he breaks 1 million votes, I'd be very surprised.

Later,

[Rowdyboy]

5. I'll be shocked if he breaks 1/2 million votes

[Rebellious Republican]

9. I don't think so, here is what Ralph said about the greens.......

On December 22, Ralph Nader withdrew his name from consideration as a Green Party Presidential candidate.


But he went beyond that: He kissed the Greens goodbye.


And by so doing, he undercut one of the chief rationales for his Presidential run last time around, and he left himself without a coherent rationale for a brewed-about run this time as an independent.


In a letter to the Greens, Nader criticized "the maturity of the Greens as a political party" because it isn't sure of the wisdom of running any Presidential candidate in the face of the Bush onslaught. Nader termed this "a confused retreat."


He blamed the Greens for having "an uncertain compass regarding what should be a bedrock, genetic determination to run Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates all out-which is what, after all, national political parties-as opposed to movements-do."


And he faulted the Greens for not coming to a decision on this question until its convention in June.>
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