Marathon Pundit: Nader may be a presidential race invader

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Nader may be a presidential race invader

Guess who may be stirring up the pot in regards to this year's presidential race? Ralph Nader, Green Party candidate for president in 2000 and 2004.

Ralph says he's thinking about running again, although he's not saying under which, or any, party banner.

From ABC News:

(Nader) has harsh words for the leading Democratic candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, chastising them for failing to advance aggressive plans to tax corporations more fairly, and to fight for a vastly higher minimum wage.

Obama, he said, is a particular disappointment, since his background suggests that he knows the importance of progressive issues yet hasn't fought for them in the Senate.

"His record in the Senate is pretty mediocre," Nader said. "His most distinctive characteristic is the extent to which he censors himself. He hasn't performed as a really progressive first-term senator would." His "self-censorship," Nader said, "is a reflection of character."

He's no kinder to the Republican frontrunner, Sen. John McCain. "Senator McCain is the candidate of perpetual war," he said.

Well I hope he runs, since he'll peel off votes from the Democratic nominee. If there is a Green Party candidate other than Nader, and if Michael Bloomberg runs as well, that will cause headaches for Senator Clinton or Obama.

Nader is of course a complete fraud. Here is an excerpt from Peter Schweizer's Do As I Say, (Not As I Do), Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy, in which the self-appointed fighter for "the little guy" confronts "problems" among his staff at Multinational Monitor publication:

Nader also that marriages in his shop were "a problem" and actually discouraged his minions from tying the knot. He figured marriages would mean that employees would ask for more pay and be unwilling to work longer hours. Lowell Dodge, one of his most lieutenants, said theat working for Nader was terrible for marriages because of Nader's insistence that his people keep working eighty hours a week. "There is a gap between what you would expect from someone who is fighting to make the world a better place to live and what you actually get on Nader's team, he observed. The writer James Fallows, who once worked on the Congress Project, said, "Ralph was very upset when I got married, because that's one step away from having the right devotion."