Maybe Nader should sue his ego

Third party, no help. (0.00 / 0)

Ralph Nader is a joke of a politician and his life's work as a consumer advocate is crumbling. I'm a party hack so I can't quite wrap my head around this, but what does he want to accomplish? He isn't helping his cause in anyway. Or if he is can someone let me know?

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by: Mathello @ Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 19:10:37 PM UTC

Synergy (0.00 / 0)

Maybe he can team up with Colbert to fight the party establishment.

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by: readbetween @ Fri Nov 02, 2007 at 21:03:03 PM UTC

I for one am fed up with the scape-goating of Nader. (0.00 / 0)

i voted for him in 2000, also, as a strategic protest vote here in MT knowing full well our state was going to bush.

Nader didn't disenfranchise 50,000 legitamate black voters with bogus "ineligible voter rolls" and steal the election, he didn't issue the weirdest Supreme Court Ruling in living memory to select bush, and Nader didn't cause a computer glitch that rolled Gore's vote total 10,000 votes backwards just before the Networks could call Florida for Gore based on exit polling.

My beef with Nader is that he squandered a perfectly good opportunity to get the Greens a national ballot line by spending his last month or two campaigning in swing states instead of bringing in many more votes in places like Montana and Texas, where people could have voted for him without fear of being spoilers.

Fortunatly, we live in a country where anybody who wants to can run for president, and I think it makes Democrats look bad to keep whining because somebody did just that.

The Democrats and the Republicans have done everything they can to insure that a third party/independent candidate  can only play a spoiler role by outlawing fusion voting across the country and  by impeding efforts to get instant run off voting. They have both done everything they can to limit democratic pluralism, yet when a guy like Nader decideds enough's enough, and the voters respond, even in small numbers, they scapegoat him.

Yeah yeah, Nader is a devil, he's the new Hitler, he's wrecking our institution of marriage and he's stealing our jobs.

If his lawsuit is merituos (and I have no idea if it is or isn't) I hope he wins it.

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by: Steve W. @ Mon Nov 05, 2007 at 01:08:18 AM UTC