Posted on 02/15/2007 4:43:31 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader said he is considering a presidential run in 2008 and strongly suggested today he would enter the race if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Democratic Party nomination.
"She's just another bad version of (former President) Bill Clinton," Nader told KGO radio host Ronn Owens in San Francisco.
Asked to describe Clinton, a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination a year in advance of the primaries, Nader said: "Flatters, panders, coasting, front-runner, looking for a coronation, not taking on the huge waste in the military budget as a member of the Armed Services commission, never going after the corporate crimes against pensions, against workers. ... She has no political fortitude.''
Asked specifically if he would run in 2008, Nader said it is "too early to say. ... (I'm) considering it. We're going to see what the Democrats come up with.''
Nader made the statements in San Francisco while on a book tour to push his new memoir, "The Seventeen Traditions.'' Nader also spoke at the Commonwealth Club in California.
Nader gained more than 2.7 percent of the national popular vote as the Green Party candidate for president in 2000, which some analysts said came primarily at the expense of Democrat Al Gore and helped Republican George W. Bush win the White House. In a second run four years later, Nader gained less than one-half of 1 percent.
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Go Ralph Go!
Wow!! Who put the bee up Ralph's bonnet?!?!?
More the merrier.
Thank you, Ralph!
Huge military waste? The military's percentage of the budget has been dwindling for decades...
Just great. Split the vote so she is guaranteed a win.
YYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!
Maybe he can be the Ross Perot for the dim party in this election.
ditto that
The man just doesn't quit. Gotta admire him for that.
.LOL....that may be true but if Nader hadn't been in the race, Gore would have won Florida and Bush would never have been Prez....I say good for him..let him split the vote
Go Ralph you crazy commie! Go metro girl you lunatic of the left!
WOOHOO!
just another wack job
Ralphie better do it this time....he won't make it to the next time......croak....
Go, Ralphie!
No, I don't have to admire him at all, but I am amused. And all the Volvos in the area can get updated bumper stickers.
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