Comments on: Nader is Running for President

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:24:48 +0000

I do not know Larua particularly well. We’ve met a few times and had a number of conversations, one especially important to her and interesting to me. We anthropologists tend to know each other after a few decades in the business.

By: Anne Gilbert

Anne Gilbert — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:52:02 +0000

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaassssssseeee!!!!! Pretty please, not Ralph Nader — again! I used to like him, but. . . .And — This is for Greg: Do I understand you correcty when you say you know Laura Nader? She’s done some pretty cool stuff.Anne G

By: Sven DiMilo

Sven DiMilo — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:44:41 +0000

ScienceBlogs commenters, red in tooth and claw….grrrrrrrrrr

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:39:49 +0000

Sven,Does it matter that I know his sister?I would bite you, but I suspect you’d bite back.G

By: Sven DiMilo

Sven DiMilo — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:11:32 +0000

The sad thing about all this is that Ralph’s right. Check out the Political Compass site…see any candidates down in the lower-left where I live? Not without Kucinich you don’t.People who claim Nader’s in it for his ego know nothing about Nader. He’s in it so as not to be a hypocrite. When I voted for Kerry, I was being a hypocrite, and when I hold my nose and vote for Obinton I’ll be a hypocrite too. We all need to grin and pretend the non-Constitutional corporate-status-quo Republicrat “choice” is the best we can do? Or else we’re “mindless, moronic simps”?Bite me, Laden.

By: TTT

TTT — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:09:04 +0000

Several posts in this thread have alluded to “legions of Nader fans.” That’s a joke, right? Nobody cares about Ralph Nader. As an “alternative” in the 2004 contest, when the two main candidates ranged from “unexciting and undefendable” to “widely despised and perhaps truly evil,” even THEN nobody voted for Nader.Simply caring about Nader, at all, is a real marker of generational myopia. It’s totally a Boomer thing. In my entire lifetime, Ralph Nader has been nothing more than the squinty old kook who handed Bush the keys. Color me unimpressed by his Woodstock-era consumer activism; if he didn’t invent the car seatbelt (or whatever), someone else would have.

By: Nomen Nescio

Nomen Nescio — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:18:35 +0000

I would hope that a majority of them have given up their quixotic battle and moved into the Democratic party, trying to make it liberal as it should be.

why on earth would you want to hope for that? it would make about as much sense to hope for a bunch of republicans to join the democratic party in an effort to move it further to the right --- and that, at least, would stand a real chance of getting the dems to win elections!

By: Nomen Nescio

Nomen Nescio — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:30:50 +0000

manipulating legions of mindless, moronic Nader-Simps,

well that's all right then. after all, anybody that dumb is surely not a potential democratic voter anyway... or if they are, they definitely won't be discouraged by a democrat openly insulting their judgment.

By: David Marjanovi?

David Marjanovi? — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:17:59 +0000

If Nader had not been on the ballot in Florida, and 538 Nader wackos had voted for Al Gore, Al Gore would be our president.

Are you sure a few more chads wouldn't have been found to be hanging then?Remember: Gore won anyway. The Supreme Court just didn't like that and pulled a coup.

In New Mexico Bush beat Kerry by 5,988 votes.

By 5,988 counted votes.

By: HP

HP — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:59:17 +0000

I predict that this time around, Nader will split the traditional Gus Hall voting bloc, thus paving the way for Lyndon Larouche to move into third place ahead of Pat Buchanan and whoever the Libertarians run.2008 promises to be a nail-biting election for fringe crackpots!