Reply #75: I agree with you that Nader was right at least once in 2004 - when he praised John Kerry [View All]

[karynnj]

what made less sense was his comment that he thought his being in the race helped Kerry as he (Nader) could attack Bush harder. At any rate, he was not a big issue in 2004 - because people had learned from 2000. Nader was a disaster in 2000 - and Gore and Bush are very different.

Faced with growing concerns about Ralph Nader's potential to siphon off Democratic votes, John Kerry began a forceful but delicate effort on Wednesday to win over the man whose candidacy caused so much trouble for the Democratic nominee four years ago.


Mr. Kerry did not ask him to abandon the race, and Mr. Nader showed no signs of bowing out. But Mr. Kerry's wooing did seem to be having the desired effect already. In an interview immediately after what participants called a very friendly one-hour meeting at Mr. Kerry's headquarters, Mr. Nader called Mr. Kerry ''very presidential,'' fondly recalled his antiwar leadership in the 1970's, praised his skills as a politician and quite favorably compared Mr. Kerry to Vice President Al Gore...

Mr. Nader had nothing but kind things to say about Mr. Kerry in a chuckle-filled telephone interview after the meeting. He said he and Mr. Kerry had done a little reminiscing. Mr. Nader recalled inviting Mr. Kerry over for a meeting in 1971 after Mr. Kerry gave his testimony against the Vietnam War to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And Mr. Kerry recalled urging Mr. Nader to run for president in 1980.

''I've known him a long time,'' Mr. Nader said. ''It's hard not to like a 27-year-old guy who comes back from the war and helps lead the antiwar movement.''

(from a NYT article ( http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E0DD103FF933A15756C0A9629C8B63&scp=1&sq=nader+and+kerry&st=nyt ) quoted here"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/what-kerry-did-right-enga_b_88317.html