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Nader says he may run in 2008, especially if Hillary gets the nomination
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 2/15/7
| Carla Marinucci
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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; moonbat; nader; piaps; president; sanfranciscovalues; spoiler
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To: SmithL
If Ralph runs, won't Pat Buchanan run too?
Is Pat a republican again or what after he destroyed Perot's Reform Party.
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:12:41 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Chi-townChief
Who put the bee up Ralph's bonnet?!?!?
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:14:18 PM PST
by
Shots
(Loose Lips sink ships.........)
To: dman4384
If leftist Rudy and Hillary get the nomination, I suspect that there will be a rich field of 3rd party candidates.
I was thinking the same thing. With the edges of both parties peeling off, the victor might get through with 40% of the popular vote.
To: SmithL
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:18:07 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: SmithL
Nader, taking the small percentage of the vote away from Gore in 2000, is very much hated by the Left.
My guess is that even if he won, he would only pull .5%-1% of the vote.
More like is that if Her Heinous gets the nod, there will be a rally round her effect because the Dims want to win.
45
posted on
02/15/2007 5:21:29 PM PST
by
Cincinna
(HILLARY & HER HINO "We are going to take things away from you for the Common Good")
To: SmithL
I'll hold a fundraiser for him at my gun club. Bet we bring in a tidy sum.
46
posted on
02/15/2007 5:26:45 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: BigSkyFreeper
47
posted on
02/15/2007 5:27:23 PM PST
by
onyx
(DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
To: SmithL
Ralph Nader has ALWAYS been MY hero!
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:29:14 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(WE are the media....The New Media.)
To: RunningWolf
As far left as he is, the guy is honest and has integrity One word: Convair
49
posted on
02/15/2007 5:31:24 PM PST
by
JZoback
(Grandma Pelosi will give milk and cookies to Osama and he will be a good boy !!!)
To: SmithL
"She's just another bad version of (former President) Bill Clinton," Nader told KGO radio host Ronn Owens in San Francisco.Ralph Nader and I don't agree about much. But we agree about this.
To: RunningWolf
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.''I may be poles apart with Nader politically, but this description is near perfect.
51
posted on
02/15/2007 5:48:59 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: SmithL
"And all the Volvos in the area can get updated bumper stickers."
My Volvo has an American flag.
To: SmithL
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:51:37 PM PST
by
Lewite
(Praise YAHWEH and Proclaim His Wonderful Name! Islam, the end time Beast-the harlot of Babylon.)
To: Vigilanteman
I agree, and one Nader mucks up the MSM spin machine.
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posted on
02/15/2007 5:52:21 PM PST
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: BonnieJ
Nice to see the Dems have their own 3rd party wackos to deal with.
55
posted on
02/15/2007 5:53:43 PM PST
by
JHBowden
(President Giuliani in 2008! Law and Order. Solid Judges. Free Markets. Killing Terrorists.)
To: truth_seeker
You're not from around here, are you?
; )
56
posted on
02/15/2007 5:54:45 PM PST
by
SmithL
(si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: SmithL
Looks like their base will only vote for a "TRUE" Liberal, and if the only choice is a "conservative" like Hillary Clinton, they're going THIRD PARTY by Gosh!
Gotta vote yer principals ya know!
57
posted on
02/15/2007 5:59:26 PM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(" Judge not and thou shalt not be judged")
To: TomGuy
Pat has NEVER been a Republican, or a conservative for that matter.
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posted on
02/15/2007 6:03:34 PM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(" Judge not and thou shalt not be judged")
To: SmithL
Maybe he could make it a new kinda three way ticket:
Nader / Sheehan / Kucinich - 2008
That way between the three they'd have half a brain to share.
59
posted on
02/15/2007 6:09:59 PM PST
by
nctexan
To: SmithL
Old Ralph must need his ego stroked.
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posted on
02/15/2007 6:16:06 PM PST
by
SMM48
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