Should Nader be invited to the debates between McCain and Obama/Hillary?

[kentuck]

He will insist and the Republicans will agree that he should be invited, believing that he would harm the Democratic nominee. What shoud the Democrats do? Invite Nader to the debate?

[dchill]

1. NO N/T

[Gothmog]

29. NO, nt

[displacedtexan]

2. Which party is Nadar representing?

Doesn't the Green Party already have a nominee?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. Last I heard it was between

Jesse Johnson, Cynthia McKinney, Kent Mesplay, and Kat Swift.

No Nader in there. :shrug:

[Gothmog]

31. He was not on the list of potential nominees under consideration

Remember the Green party rejected Nader in 2004 and so he ran as an independent. I saw a list of potential nominees under consideration and nader was not on it.

[liberalnurse]

3. Yes....If he is actually an elected candidate

from his Party.....whatever that is this time........:shrug:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Is he running for the Democratic nomination too?

'Cause if not he has no right nor reason to be there. :shrug:

[ginnyinWI]

7. Independent this time around. nt

[RedCappedBandit]

20. Is McCain?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

34. I was being facetious

As far as I know he's a party of one. :shrug:

[rox63]

5. No

It is not in the Dems' best interests to include Nader in the debates. He will do nothing more than increase the chances of us ending up with McCain in the WH.

[dchill]

13. Plus - he's NOT a Democrat. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

6. I think there should be an age limit for the debates

Nader turned 74 yesterday and all Nader wants people to do is talk about Nader. Or maybe have a debate including Nader with the age of the candidates the only topic.

[NeedleCast]

12. I don't think we should let anyone named Ralph ever debate again

That's right. Nader ruined it for all of them.

[BOSSHOG]

18. He's had his runs

and I'm skeptical of his motives. He doesn't want to be president, he just wants to get on the cover of magazines. Its time for him to stop and enjoy whatever years he has left.

[NeedleCast]

30. Totally Agree

I was aiming for satirical in my initial response. It appears I failed. My bad!

[BOSSHOG]

32. We are kindred spirits My Friend

I fail at sarcasm all the time but I refuse to use the emoticon.

[Bucky]

39. I suggest 65

[BOSSHOG]

40. Nothing personal

towards Nader and McCain but the body and mind slows down via aging. I'm 53 and I'm feeling the changes on a daily basis. I love my 75 year old Mother in Law but lord I'd hate for her to put herself in a stressful situation.

[Kittycat]

9. I'm pretty sure he needs 5% in polling.... At least that's what they required of

Kucinich.

[Virginia Dare]

10. Sure, and while we're at it, invite Lyndon LaRouche...n/t

[Selatius]

11. Well, to correct people here: You decide nothing. The network makes the decisions.

And the networks are owned by Fortune 500 companies. They call the shots, not you.

Having said that, though, I frankly can't tell. They didn't invite Kucinich to debate, but they did give an invitation to Alan Keyes. Go figure.

[mac2]

14. Any leader of other parties should debate

[MonkeyFunk]

47. There are dozens of political parties in the US

No, they all don't deserve to be at the debates.

[Ganja Ninja]

15. I think Nader should sit down and debate all the other 3rd party

candidates before he even thinks about debating either of the candidates from the 2 main parties.

[Virginia Dare]

22. That's an excellent idea...

I'm sure at least 1,000 people would tune in to watch it.

Really, though, I think it's a good idea.

[LisaM]

16. Sure. Invite 'em all so they can trash the Democratic nominee

Which is the only reason they want to come to the debate in the first place, or at least, so it seems to me.

[bluestateguy]

17. There is no constitutional right to be in a debate

You need to clear 15% in the polls and be on a certain number of state ballots. In 2000, BTW, Nader never reached higher than 8% in any poll.

[Earth_First]

19. Absolutely.

As soon as we begin to censor the voices running for office, the sooner we become just as guilty and complicit in the censoring of Dennis Kucinich during the Democratic debates by the MSM.

Let him hang himself.

[MonkeyFunk]

21. There's probably a few dozen crackpots running for President

should they all be included?

[mainegreen]

26. If they're on enough state ballots to get the votes needed to win

sure.

If they aren't actually on the ballot (You can still do it Lee Mercer) then probably not.

Of course, this is an idealized opinion.

[Earth_First]

27. Sure, why not? n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

37. Because they're crackpots

and every nutjob in America knew they could get on national TV by running for President, thousands of them would do so.

[sellitman]

33. Bingo!

Crack Pots R Us.

[mainegreen]

25. "Let him hang himself"

For our last election for governor everyone was invited to debate, even the real wackos, and boy did they hang themselves quickly. They probably got less votes than they would have had they not been allowed to debate.

[Bolo Boffin]

23. Hell, no.

He has no constituency. The last election sealed it.

Should Garfield be invited? How about Pat Paulson?

[Virginia Dare]

24. Is Joe Walsh running again?...n/t

[onehandle]

28. Yes. He can fill their water glasses and massage their feet. nt

[Homer Wells]

35. I don't believe he should be in the debate.

As a child of the Sixties, Ralph made a good alternative choice for those who felt that the other candidates offered no solutions to the nation's problems. He was a marvelous consumer advocate, and a very caring human being.

I believe his time has come and gone.

He reminds me of an old man who is still trying to fit in with the kids.

I do not think he will even cause a ripple in the election results.

His attendance at any debate would mostly be a distraction, although it would be interesting to see if his ideas still resonate with the voters.



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[DinahMoeHum]

36. No.

n/t

[Beregond2]

38. Nader

Nader should be invited to step off a cliff.

[happydreams]

41. YES!!!

[NoPasaran]

42. No

Let him watch at home with the rest of us

[LSdemocrat]

43. Only if every other sorry, crackpot, and/or no hope candidate also gets invited

[uppityperson]

44. He should be invited to debates between 3rd party candidates, not Democratic ones. eom

[SeattleGirl]

45. Fuck no!

Nader thinks he can sit on his ass, and then every four years, jump in and be given free reign to participate.

No fucking way.

He'd be a lot more legitimate if he were more active in between Presidential elections.

Go away, Ralph.

[philosophie_en_rose]

46. Hell no.

If anyone unlikely to win is going to be at the debates, invite Kucinich or Edwards.

[Stinky The Clown]

48. Only if he's there as part of the contract waiter crew serving snacks

[JerseygirlCT]

49. No. He should be ignored, which is better than he deserves. nt