Re: >>The Right Candidate for Wrong Times<<
That says all.
What's your take on that "spoiler" Ralph Nader? Somehow, Nader's an anti-Buchanan, isn't he? I mean, from GW Bush's point of view, Nader is the Wrong Candidate for the Right Time:
February 22, 2004
Ignoring Democrats' Pleas, Nader Announces Run for White House
By KIRK SEMPLE
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate whom many Democrats regard as the spoiler in Al Gore's bid for the White House four years ago, said today he is running for president this year as an independent.
Mr. Nader, who made his announcement on the NBC News program "Meet The Press," ignored pleas by Democratic leaders to sit out this race and not risk fracturing the party's bid to unseat President Bush.
He said he wanted to challenge what he called the "two-party duopoly" in American politics in which both the Democrats and the Republicans are "ferociously competing to see who's going to go to the White House and take orders from their corporate paymasters."
"Washington is now corporate-occupied territory," he added. "There is now a for-sale sign on most agencies and departments." He said he was fighting on behalf of independent parties that "want to have a chance to compete."
Mr. Nader's candidacy in 2000, which he ran on the Green Party ticket, drew 2.8 percent of the popular vote and was blamed by many Democrats for siphoning support from Mr. Gore.
"It's his personal vanity because he has no movement," Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico complained on "Fox News Sunday" before Mr. Nader's announcement. "Nobody's backing him, the Greens aren't backing him, his friends urge him not to do it. It's all about himself."
Governor Richardson's comments echoed a familiar theme sounded in the Democratic ranks in recent weeks as various party leaders, among them Mr. Nader's friends, tried to persuade him not to run.
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