Nader announces he'll run... two losses is not enough.
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The wire service this morning is carrying the story that perpetual losing independent Ralph Nader has thrown his hat... or Corvair in the ring for a third go. I wholeheartedly endorse the concept of a multiplicity of parties... but please give us something other than a candidate that can be exploited as a spoiler by one or the other of the two major parties, and has no platform other than opposing what the other parties stand for... which so far isn't much anyhow. Bring back Ross Perot, hell bring back Sam Walton... at least we know where he stood... cheap Chinese products that put Americans out of work and sent jobs over the borders to increase profits. Why can't Nader find a viable candidate to support that a pluralcy could get behind and offer real change rather than running his own tired ass again? Couldn't the money wasted on another losing campaign be better spent on a viable alternative?
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080224/ap_on_el_pr/nader
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080224/ap_on_el_pr/nader
There is little doubt that he is a distraction and pointless spoilier for Democratic presidential candidates. The damage he did in 2000 is second only to the "hanging chads."
Surveys have shown that a Bloomberg candidacy would not fair well in the presidential race.
What is unnerving is that Bloomberg can spend hundreds of millions of dollars from his personal fortune, but still not have a significant impact because he is not a progressive change agent.
So how can a ill funded, negatively based campaign by Ralph Nader become an effective campaign?
Will the GPUSA support Nader's wind mill challenged run?
Can Ralph Nader reach out to the college level segment of the voting population as he did in 2000?
What is Ralph's platform of ideas?
Where is Ralph's base of supporters? Which would be the .3 percent who voted for Ralph in 2004.
I see now people powered outcry for "Ralph to the Rescue" in 2008.
This is a vanity run of a 74 year old man, who has no credibility left.