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Ralph Nader Running for President -- Again
abcnews ^ | Feb. 24, 2008 | By JAKE TAPPER and KIM RANDOLPH

Posted on 02/24/2008 10:14:49 AM PST by fight_truth_decay

Calling Washington, D.C., "corporate-occupied territory," consumer advocate Ralph Nader launched his fifth campaign for the presidency Sunday.

"I'm running for president," said Nader in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Nader downplayed the impact he might have on the ultimate outcome of the race, saying "if Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: meetthepress; mtp; nader; ralphnader; russert; thirdparty
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1 posted on 02/24/2008 10:14:53 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

the Guy Lombardo of politics.


2 posted on 02/24/2008 10:16:06 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Did someone just hear Howard Dean’s head explode?


3 posted on 02/24/2008 10:16:40 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Shouldn't the libs love a Hunter Thompson ticket in 08?)
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To: fight_truth_decay
Pretty much guarantees the White house for McCain...


4 posted on 02/24/2008 10:16:41 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: the invisib1e hand

This time around he may be the lessor of three evils.


5 posted on 02/24/2008 10:17:16 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
... "if Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."

What if they just merge and become a conglomerate and call themselves "RepublicRATS" or "Demopublicans"?

Wait a minute. Or did they already do that?

6 posted on 02/24/2008 10:18:12 AM PST by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: darkwing104

I may be very wrong, but I doubt that Ralph Nader draws any more than one-tenth of one percent of the vote.


7 posted on 02/24/2008 10:19:34 AM PST by arnoldpalmerfan
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To: MrEdd
This time around he may be the lessor of three evils

More like the evil of 3 lessors.

8 posted on 02/24/2008 10:21:14 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: arnoldpalmerfan
If Hillary gets handed the Nomination from the Super Delegates, which she will, there will be a lot of pissed off Democrats and they will vote for anyone else...


9 posted on 02/24/2008 10:21:47 AM PST by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Ralph Nader, unsafe on any ticket!


10 posted on 02/24/2008 10:21:47 AM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Oh goody! I liked hearing him basically telling the Rats to F-— off.


11 posted on 02/24/2008 10:27:10 AM PST by Seruzawa (A skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.)
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To: darkwing104

absolutely correct..you don’t go 0-10 this late in the game and stay in..she has something up her sleeve that’s going to be a political “nuclear” bomb..IMHO..


12 posted on 02/24/2008 10:28:03 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info on joining.You DON'T have to ride to belong)
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To: fight_truth_decay
This time around I think Ralphy-Boy’s impact will be on the scale of a mouse fart. Unless he’s not the only mouse scurrying around in the ballot box.

What other kooky and inconsequential parties and candidates will get themselves on the ballot? If there’s enough of them hailing from either right or left field they might have some collective impact to that side of the field. -Wb

13 posted on 02/24/2008 10:28:07 AM PST by Wagonboy (STOP GLOBAL WHINING!)
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As Secretary of Defense, I'll crush you deniers.
14 posted on 02/24/2008 10:38:02 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
It could certainly be argued that Nader cost Gore the White House in 2000.If all of Nader’s votes in NH had gone to algore he would have won.But that’s not likely to happen this time.
15 posted on 02/24/2008 10:40:03 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Now its a four ring circus with a clown in every ring.

Is NY City mayor Bloomburg next?


16 posted on 02/24/2008 10:40:06 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: fight_truth_decay

The word “corporate” is in the first sentence. Got to love it.


17 posted on 02/24/2008 10:41:44 AM PST by plain talk
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To: fight_truth_decay

Well I’m not voting for John McCain.

So maybe I’ll vote Nadar ‘08. :D


18 posted on 02/24/2008 10:42:17 AM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Let’s just hope no conservative (or libertarian) is stupid enough to pull this little stunt. And if one is that stupid, let’s hope that conservative voters are not stupid enough to waste their vote on him. Remember: we’re smarter than the Left.


19 posted on 02/24/2008 10:42:19 AM PST by RussP
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To: fight_truth_decay
Quotes:

Nader:.."if Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."

Nader: "Sen. Hillary Clinton...a "political coward."

Nader: "Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as "the candidate for perpetual war"

Nader: "Washington, D.C., "corporate-occupied territory..."

Nadar: "All the candidates -- McCain, Obama, and Clinton -- are against single payer health insurance, full Medicare for all," ..wanted to take on the "bloated military budget," labor law reform, repealing the Taft-Hartley Act, and corporate crime."

Nadar: "One feels an obligation to try to open the doorways," ... "Dissent is the mother of assent and in that context I have decided to run for president."

Nadar:...(Obama)"the first liberal evangelist in a long time,"... ran a brilliant tactical campaign but.."pro-Palestine when he was in Illinois, before he ran for the state senate and during his state senate" but now "supporting the Israeli destruction" of Gaza.".."(Obama)as someone whose "better instincts and his knowledge have been censored by himself"

Obama: Nader, a "heroic" figure who "has done as much as just about anybody on behalf of consumers." .. a stubborn egomaniac".

Nader:.. those who would argue against his candidacy are displaying "political bigotry" against "all of us that think that the country needs an infusion of freedom, democracy and choice," suggesting they "should just sit on the sidelines and watch the two political parties own all the voters and turn the government over to big business."

20 posted on 02/24/2008 10:42:44 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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