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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News Alert....Nader found in Marcy Park....Film at 11.
uhhhh, might that be "Corvair"?
You're not from around here, are you?
; )
Here is where I am, alright. SoCal. OC to be precise.
Once OC was the center of the conservative universe. Goldwater, Reagan eras. Milton Friedman economics.
Where it is okay to be Republican and drive a Volvo, if you want. Volvocars is, after all, 100 American owned.
Nader handed the 2000 election to Bush. No doubt about it.
Florida:
Nader 96,837
Gore 2,907,451
Bush 2,909,176
:^)
I think you mean Corvair.
He's looking for money.
She will buy him out.
Even Ralph can't stand the Hildebeast. Get in there, Ralph, and do your duty.
I'm guessing if you're Ralph Nader, any military spending is a waste.
Good news!!
split the vote!
split the vote!
split the vote!
the corvair was an amazing car, a cross between a corvette and a mustang
as a result of neglect and mismanagement of the line by general motors, the corvair name became a liability
but the corvair morphed directly into the camaro which replaced it - and now you know the rest of the story
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