Nader leaves the door open for another run

[SharonRB]

On Blitzer just now -- he said he'll decide later in the year. If Hillary is still strong, it sounds like he'll run. He likes Gravel and Kucinich.

Just what we need -- another Nader run to cut into the Dem vote with no chance of winning. Don't run, Ralph, don't run!

[ruggerson]

1. Fuck Ralph Nader

n/t

[we can do it]

14. Beat Me To It - Fuck You Egotistical Bastard

[Rowdyboy]

2. If you liked Nader in 2000, you'll love the 20008 version.....

Just listening to him on CNN is making me proud of my vote for Gore. Its increasingly hard to remember that I once admired this man.

[Missy M]

9. I hope he does wait until the year 20008

:hi:

[Horse with no Name]

3. Maybe nature will intervene

:)

[tridim]

4. Hey Asshole.. Start a blog or something and leave us alone

Haven't you done enough damage to this country already?

[derby378]

5. If Nader runs again, he will lost again...

...the only question is how many votes he'll steal away from the Democratic Party in the process.

[Eugene]

6. Go away, Ralph...

and save what little credibility you have left as a progressive.

:banghead:

[IndianaGreen]

7. Nader would be a marginal candidate without a viable third party behind him

People are too terrified of the possibility of having the GOP retain the White House to even toy with the idea casting a protest vote in November 2008.

Of course, the Democrats can always self-destruct and nominate someone like Joe Lieberman, but I think I have better odds of winning the Powerball jackpot than having that happen.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

8. I wonder if he'll take money from the Bush campaign to finance his again...n/t

[lligrd]

10. Quick, Someone Talk Pat Robertson Into Running

as a third party candidate.

[radfringe]

11. I said it in 2000, I said it in 2004 and I'll say it again

nader has the right message, but he's the WRONG messenger

[Dracos]

12. Oh hell

here we go again

[SharonRB]

15. That was certainly my first reaction

Run, Ralph, run -- far, far away! We need every vote we can get and don't need you siphoning off votes from our candidate.

[PresidentObama]

13. Nader, go.

Just go. You could do much better things then run for President!

[Jim Lane]

16. As Whittier wrote of Daniel Webster....

Webster had been much admired by abolitionists until he supported the Compromise of 1850, which included the . Whenever I hear about Nader's presidential campaigns, I think of Whittier's poem in response to Webster's action. It perfectly captures the combination of respect for past achievements and disdain for the current outrage.



"Ichabod", by John Greenleaf Whittier

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!

Revile him not, the Tempter hath
A snare for all;
And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath,
Befit his fall!

Oh, dumb be passion's stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.

Scorn! would the angels laugh, to mark
A bright soul driven,
Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark,
From hope and heaven!

Let not the land once proud of him
Insult him now,
Nor brand with deeper shame his dim,
Dishonored brow.

But let its humbled sons, instead,
From sea to lake,
A long lament, as for the dead,
In sadness make.

Of all we loved and honored, naught
Save power remains;
A fallen angel's pride of thought,
Still strong in chains.

All else is gone; from those great eyes
The soul has fled:
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead!

Then, pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted gaze,
And hide the shame!

[DemKR]

17. I'm getting so sick of this Nader bullshit

Ralph Nader thinks he is the most powerful person in America and that Democrats all over fear him. Yeah, okay, so he screwed the entire country over in 2000---but this is eight years later. How many frigging times is this guy going to run for President?

Even if he does run I don't think he'd be a major threat. In 2004, it appeared that many of his former voters went to Kerry, which makes me wonder how the hell Kerry couldn't pull off a victory. Something was definitely fishy there.

Ralph, get a life. No one likes you.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. I used to admire him before he sold his soul.

The dark side was just too powerful for him to resist. But I'm sure the republicans will once again sponsor him and pay the fare. He won't get many votes anymore, but they owe him that much.

[applegrove]

19. The man is insane!!!