Unelectable At Any Speed.
Posted on 03/01/2008 5:39:49 AM PST by carolgr
Ralph Nader is one of the few people ever born in America who deserves to wear the badge of “Great American”.
His courageous life as a political activist, humanitarian, environmentalist and America’s consumer rights advocate is legendary.
Ralph announced on NBC’s Meet The Press Sunday, February 24 that he was running as a third party presidential candidate in 2008. He cited that because of the protracted Iraq War, the wobbly economy, taxes, powerful lobbyists and other key issues that Americans are disenchanted with both the Republican and Democratic parties and need another voice. Instantaneously, when Ralph declared his candidacy, the liberal magpie talking heads came out of the woodwork calling him demeaning names such as a buffoon and a crackpot. Democratic sympathizers especially detest Ralph.
They call him an election spoiler and claim that his entry into the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore the election by taking votes in the close Florida race.
What they are really saying is that they want to control the American elections, only want their chosen candidates to run, want to limit voters’ choices and they blame their party failures on Nader. They call themselves Democrats, but this is not democracy. It is sour grapes. Ralph’s politically biased critics are expert at using the eager sensationalist press as their alter ego to broadcast their false, exaggerated and twisted remarks to slander him through personal attacks.
They have never put the cause above themselves or reached out to the public for any reason other then for politically prostituting themselves by character assassinating one of the most respected people in the world. Unlike Nader, they have never held a demonstration, never conducted a community rally, never spoken to Congress and never taken on big business because of big businesses’' inhumane or anti-American practices.
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Unelectable At Any Speed.
May be, however, we still live in a democracy and he still has the right and qualifications to run.
Where is the barf alert?
I hope he attracts a lot of Democratic voters.
Even my dog loves him. Fluffy chants Ralph Nader's name whenever he appears on TV or the doorbell rings. He intones, "RALPH! RALPH! RALPH! RALPH!"
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