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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If leftist Rudy and Hillary get the nomination, I suspect that there will be a rich field of 3rd party candidates.
Woo-Hoo!
Run Ralph Run!
We need ya, buddy!
I have a funny feeling that ross perot08 will help the beast become the CIC
I'm waiting for a communist to get mainstream attention as a "serious" candidate for the Presidency.
Arkancide?
No, you've got it backwards. He could only take moonbat votes away from Hillary.
Nice if he'd split the vote, but even the moonbats know that Ralphie cost them the 2000 election even more than Bush's "cheating". It would be far better for Barry O to start a third party candidacy after charges that Hillary screwed him out of the nomination.
Run Ralph Run!!!
Would that be true if some of us not so crazy about the GOP candidate voted for Ralph? Just curious. Not spoofing.
"As far left as he is, the guy is honest and has integrity."
Don't believe the media's fairytales about this guy. He is a mean creep and liar.
There is tons of info out there if you just look. You can start here:
FrontPage magazine.com :: My Life as Ralph Nader's Flunkie by Charles Pekow
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13141
Agreed.
He probably will be in the mix, considering Obama stumbled out of the chute and probably won't recover.
My first ever presidential vote : Ross Perot
As a 21 year old, who had never voted and held politicians in contempt, he caught my interest. His infomercials were brilliant, and I still remember his quote on NAFTA: "the giant sucking sound" of manufacturing jobs leaving the USA. I believe Perot set the political agenda for the next several years.
Oh, sure. Me too.
I hope he runs as a third party again.
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