What will Nader announce on Sunday?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

[Zynx]

1. He's running for president and in doing so is endorsing Bush.

[meti57b]

3. If nader runs for president, he sure is endorsting bush! ....again

I agree with you on that!

[mlawson]

5. He will say that he wants his own issues publicized, and

it's the 'only way' to do this. But it is NOT the only way. My post #2 explains why.

[HuskerDem]

14. Nah................. He's going to announce that

He's the bastard love child of Nancy Reagan and CeCe DeVille.




Then the son of a bitch is going to clue us in on exactly why he thinks so much of himself because we need a good laugh......... well some of us do anyway. I guess the rest of us need a good puke.:puke:

Edited to add visuals

[mlawson]

2. I don't know, but here is what he *could* do:

He wants to bring out debate on the environment and corporate crimes, he says. Great. He COULD endorse our Dem candidate, tour with him, and promote his own agenda at the same time. he would get media coverage -- we know that -- and at the same time further debate on his issues, and help our guy as well.

That is what he COULD do. Will he??

[Maddy McCall]

4. Would be the most productive thing to do...

no chance in hell he'll have a soapbox any other way. On the other hand, if I were a Dem candidate, I wouldn't want to be within a mile of him. After 2004, I would wager that many folks blame him for Bush being selected, and no candidate will risk association with him for that very fact.

If he announces, he won't have a constituency. He will be the progressives' most hated man in America and the conservatives' most beloved.

[mlawson]

7. I appreciate your point about

the Dem not wanting him near him. But the actual choice might be, either give him a place in the Dem campaign, or watch him follow you around anyway, running 3rd party. I would take the first option in a NY minute.

[Maddy McCall]

8. It's damned if you do and damned if you don't...

losing centrists or swing voters just so Nader can puppydog around with the Dem nominee may or may not be worth it.

It is truly a sticky place when you're between a rock and a hard place.

:-)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

6. Well that's why I made the poll.

Because that is the best thing he could do -- and unlikely as it is, it's still possible.

[morgan2]

9. it's possible

he has been talking to the dem party, trying to get them to concede a few of his 13 or whatever the number it was policies he presented to both parties. I wouldn't be that suprised if he announced some kind of one year alliance deal, although I do think its most likely he's announcing that he's running.

[Rowdyboy]

10. I don't think he's gonna run....

His ego is too large. He'd do so much worse this time it would be humiliating. I think he'll surprise us all.

[InhaleToTheChief]

11. Running...

I imagine he's probably going to run. And though I don't welcome his choice...especially this year...the increasing certrist-DLC/DNC bent of the Democratic party really is in a way forcing the rise of a liberal third party that is more responsive to the people. Helping destroy Dean was a potentially fatal move for the dem powers-that-be in that they alienated so many of his followers.

I doubt Nader will have the same exuberant following as last time, though a good number of the Deanies may go his way. Ideally, the Dems *would* agree to promote some of Nader's issues and ally with him, at least position-wise, so he does not run.

[Wickerman]

12. he's dropping out of public life to restore Corvairs

- with any fucking luck at all.

[quaker bill]

13. I would choose two

He is running for President and is an idiot with an ego the size of Mt. Everest. The two choices are hardly mutually exclusive.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

15. Good point, but I couldn't resist putting that one in there.