Options still open for Nader

[seriousstan]

Still not put off by the bile directed his way by some who feel that his candidacy cost Al Gore the White House in 2000, Ralph Nader indicated he might make yet another run for president.

At the Take Back America conference at the Washington Hilton on Tuesday, Yeas & Nays asked whether he had any favorite candidates for the 2008 presidential election, to which he replied, “I don’t like to say who I favor, but if my name is on the ballot - I suppose you can guess.”

Nader wasn’t the only presidential hopeful in the room. Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Barack Obama, John Edwards and Mike Gravel also worked the crowd. Richardson took the stage in the morning and “pointed out the differences,” between himself and his opponents. When asked whether he was ignoring his own pledge abolishing criticism between the candidates, Richardson replied, “I am still a nice guy… just pointing out the differences.”

The race for attention heated up as Obama appeared in the afternoon. “Unlike some occupants of the White House, I actually believe in the Constitution!” he exclaimed to the crowd, focusing his talk on health care. Edwards directly followed and talked about poverty, which he calls his “personal passion.” Both candidates took time to shake hands. So who won the beauty contest? Some conference leaders were overheard saying that “Edwards just didn’t have the same effect with the crowd; Obama is a tough act to follow.”

http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/6/19/Options-still-open-for-Nader

[Totally Committed]

1. Jeeeeeeezus, no!

Ralph needs to sit this one out in order for the DNC to finally get "the message".

TC

[sellitman]

2. Who do you detest more: Nader or Lieberman?

Too close to call!

[dmallind]

4. Not for me

Lieberman is a saber-rattling loose cannon who put his own tenure above the good of the party and the will of its members - buy he didn't single handedly give us eight years of Bush like Ralph and his dreamworld idiot followers did.

Anyone who says this is not so must explain how it would be that of 90,000 Florida Green voters, 569 of them would not have voted for Gore had Nader not been on the ballot. You can rail about Gore's silly campaign decisions all you want, and in theory those things may ahve had an impact, but we KNOW it all came down to FL's EC votes and we can look and see how many votes Nader siphoned off.

STILL think there's no difference between tweedle dum (Bush) and tweedle dee (Gore) NOW you "purist" vichy cocksuckers?

How ANYONE could contemplate a Green candidacy now is beyond me. We KNOW what that does.

[Gman]

3. Nader STILL doesn't get it

What an idiot. He did cost Gore the WH in 2000.

Mr. Nader, 6 1/2 years later, look at what you have directly caused. Take a long, hard look at what you have caused.