Nader still fighting over alleged '04 conspiracy

AP via SFGate ^ | 1/9/10

[SmithL]

Machias, Maine (AP) -- Ralph Nader didn't have any luck in Washington, D.C., with a lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to keep him off the 2004 presidential ballot. So he's taking his case to Washington County, a sparsely populated locale at the nation's easternmost tip.

The lawsuit five years after President George W. Bush beat Democrat John Kerry contends the Kerry campaign and Democratic leaders conspired to keep Nader off the ballot in Maine and more than a dozen other states.

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There's no love lost between Nader and Democrats.

Nader is loathed by many Democrats who believe his Green Party candidacy in 2000 cost Democrats the election by taking votes away from candidate Al Gore. Nader blamed Democrats for their razor-thin loss.

[hinckley buzzard]

I knew a kid from Machias Maine when I was in college. He had such a thick downeast "Bert and I" accent you could hardly make him out sometimes.

[DTogo]

Nader is the Left’s Ron Paul. Some good Liberal ideas, absolute wrong messenger.

[ridesthemiles]

If Nader were given a 51-50 mental exam, I do not think he could pass it and remain on the street.