Nader calls Michael Moore a "giant beach ball" -- classy!

[RememberTheCoup]

This is in LBN right now. Nader whines about not being invited to the F/911 premiere but freeperishly takes a parting shot at MM's weight. When asked about his statement, Nader says "He's over 300 pounds. He's like a giant beach ball."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8713-2004Jun26.html

"We are more saddened than angered by this," a Moore associate said, noting the particular pathos in Nader's missing invitation to the movie premiere. "It is just sad."

Here is a link to the actual statement:
http://votenader.org/why_ralph/index.php?cid=83

This clinches it. Nader has totally gone off the deep end.

[bryant69]

1. Holy Crap!

Mr. Nader has every right to run, but he is kind off in his own world isn't he?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Yeah he does, but he's looking more like Lyndon LaRouche everyday.

A nutball perennial candidate who has a select few followers.

Pretty soon they'll be setting up tables at DMV's and airports.

[jobycom]

13. I was thinking that yesterday

that Nader and LaRouche have a similar "Everyone else is a crook" mentality, while being far from clean themselves. LaRouche has the strangest, most cult-like followers, though.

[AndyTiedye]

31. It Is Hard To Watch Someone I Once Respected and Admired Become Senile

worse still when he is then exploited by evil people the way he is being now.

[fujiyama]

2. He really is an ass hole

Anyone that votes for him this time is a damn fool.

[Loonman]

3. Good one Ralph, you walking corpse!

:smoke:

[Liberal Veteran]

4. It's crap like this that makes most of us wary of Nader....

He is very puffed up with his own sense of importance and is EXTREMELY thin-skinned and takes everything as a slight.

Quite honestly, I suspect he has psychological issues.

[Soup Bean]

5. I used to respect Nader.

I think we're getting to know him a little too well. Nobody stands up well under constant spotlight. Flaws, which we all have, start to show up.

He's done a lot of good for the country, and his point is basically correct: the Corporations control both parties. However, the Republican side of corporate power is much harsher than the Dem side. He needs to help Kerry, and then work on the local levels to change the country, if that's what he wants to do.

[Liberal Veteran]

10. That's the point many on the far left don't understand....

...our political structure will not turn 180 overnight. It will follow a slow curve in the direction it is guided.

[tandot]

7. Well, I am glad that Nader focuses on the important issues...like MM's

weight...:crazy:

[IronLionZion]

8. Moore stumped for Nader in the past

Nader truly is a giant asshole

[Amaya]

9. Nader the Giant prick

Making fun of someones weight... how utterly assholish of him. Not surprised though. Never liked the guy.

[IrateCitizen]

11. I think we're just beginning to see the "true Nader"

I'll admit it -- I voted for Ralph in 2000. Of course, I also live in NY, which I knew would go safely for Gore. Much of Nader's anti-corporate, anti-militarist rhetoric resonated with me, and I did hold the belief that both major parties were too heavily influenced by corporate interests, and that they didn't really represent the "regular American".

I am still extremely distrustful of power, I still think that corporations hold too much power, and I still think that both parties are pretty much beholden to them overall. But you couldn't get me to vote for Nader this time around, even with a gun to my head.

I mean, the guy talks all about unions -- yet he bent over backwards to crush union organizing within his own organization. He refuses to listen to EVERYBODY who pleads with him not to run this year, and then offers up cockamamie statements accusing them of "inhibiting democratic process". Despite evidence to the contrary, he STILL says that he'll pull as many votes from the Right as from the Left.

IMHO, all we're beginning to see is the classical egotist that Ralph Nader really is. I'm not going to discount the many good things he did in the past for the consumer movement. But it's clear that he's so self absorbed, so consumed with his own fringe celebrity, that he's willing to sacrifice anything and everything to solidify and extend that celebrity.

[mzmolly]

19. You nailed it. My contempt for this man grows daily. I considered

supporting Nader in 2000 (who by the way owns stock in Haliburton and other companies he lobbys against) but he reveals himself more every single day.

I am thankful I talked 3 of 4 family members out of voting for him in 2000. Gore was a great candidate, and would have made an excellent President.

I do like some of Ralphs rhetoric, but it seems so disengenuine today.

If he gets one vote from any educated person, I'll be amazed!

:puke:

[wryter2000]

12. Nice, Nader

Why don't you go take Cheney's advice?

[amazona]

14. sheesh way to win hearts and minds, ralph!

Fat people know they're fat, they don't need Ralph Nader to inform them. In case he hasn't noticed, dieting/exercise for people genetically programmed to be heavy takes a lot of time and energy that Moore may not exactly have free at the moment. I happen to think what he's doing is a bit more important than jogging.

[Gothmog]

15. Remember strange letter from Nader to Moore

Nader did a strange letter to Moore asking him to come back to the Naderites now that Wes Clark was out of the race. I thought that the letter was bizarre at the time. It seems that Nader has some fixation on Michael Moore.

[m-jean03]

16. Well, on the bright side,

maybe it'll help to undermine his campaign and send his supporters over to Kerry's camp. :shrug:

What an asshole, though. :grr:

[Killarney]

17. What an asshole!

[Fenris]

18. Wow what a douchebag.

[Shakespeare]

20. Nader's totally losing it. Lashed out at the Greens, too.

They chose not to endorse him, so suddenly he thinks they're all "strange."

Sad...very sad.

[mzmolly]

23. Goes to show you his tender ego was in charge of his brain the entire

time. He's "strange."

[jus_the_facts]

21. Nader is a f'ugly skeletoid lookin' ODD BALL.....

.....Mike can alway go on a diet...yet Nader will never be able to change his appearance..inside or out apparently! :puke: :nopity:

[Forkboy]

22. He's had a tough week

no one loves him :D

[rman]

24. ever more signs that Nader is phony, a pretender

even though he's making a lot of the right noises.
He sounds like a duck but he's not really walking like a duck.

[eleny]

25. And Nader is a pinhead

[LibertyorDeath]

26. Stick a fork in him.

[messiah]

27. Blah Blah Blah

I still like Moore and Nader. This is just a wake up call to democrats by the media to get every democrat possible to vote for Kerry.

[RummyTheDummy]

29. Oh yes

The "liberal" media is at it again shilling for Kerry.

Give me a fucking break.

[RememberTheCoup]

36. Heh heh

Well, at least this poster responded. The other Nader supporters at DU have been strangely silent.

[Bluebear]

28. When nothing is left, call names. There goes the last ounce of respect....

I had for him.

[ScreamingMeemie]

30. Dead. Man. Walking.

He realizes it's curtains for him and now he's decided to be who he always has been...a jerk.

[Bread and Circus]

32. That's a pretty hostile and bigoted for Nader to say....

and if I may add....Freeperish.

[Rowdyboy]

33. Snarky and tacky

Very, very nasty.

[RememberTheCoup]

34. kick for the evening crowd

:kick:

[Deja Q]

35. I'd rather date Moore than Nader. Clearly, Nader's got an ego problem...

Or a related problem that's 2 microns in length.

Sigh. Nader is a twonk...