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TODAY'S STORIES
04.06.2008
Don't go away mad...

One downside to the Democratic primary being over: The emails from Ralph Nader's incomprehensible presidential campaign have become more frequent. Seriously, it feels as though a new missive from votenader.org lands in my inbox every 15 seconds--though I know that cannot be so. 

What is the point? What's it all about? Does Nader, in his boundless narcissism, assume that, with a lull in the real action, someone--anyone--in the media will finally show him a little attention if only he keeps pounding, pounding, pounding?

Fine. I'll bite: Sod off, you old nutter.

And that, good people, is my final word on this recurring joke of a candidate.  

--Michelle Cottle 


  

 

Posted: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:58 PM with 9 comment(s)

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geoffgraham said:

Hillary may be available to run as his VP, though it may be dangerous for two raving solipsists to share the same space.

June 4, 2008 4:56 PM

liberal reformer said:

Excellent take on Ralph. He is the gold standard of narcissism. He makes our very own roid seem like a selfless saint-like entity.

June 4, 2008 5:18 PM

Andrew Davis said:

When, he wonders, will Obama concede?

June 4, 2008 5:47 PM

jwl2672 said:

Nader might have saved the world from a Gore and Kerry presidency.  Who the hell knows what life on Earth would be like 4 years after Kerry.  We'd probably be out of Iraq and al-Sadr and the Iranian revolutionary guards would probably be annihilating people in Iraq now.

June 4, 2008 5:59 PM

boneill said:

Yeah, the Iraqis sure dodged that bullet.   We'd hate to have had a President that leaves a gruseomely violent Iraq and a massively-strengthened Iran.  A grateful world gives thanks to Ralph Nader!

June 4, 2008 6:25 PM

scire said:

This is the most excited this nation has been about our presidential nominees and the election in at least sixteen years, and Ralph Nader thinks he has one tiniest bit of a shot at even getting any media coverage? He's had his fifteen minutes of presidential candidate fame.

And now we're wasting time wondering about it.

June 4, 2008 6:42 PM

The Ignorant Populist said:

I think Gore not even being able to carry his home state was more important than some tiny third party.

June 4, 2008 7:45 PM

wesmcgee said:

And it was a shame that Bush couldn't carry his home state of Connecticut either. What's your point? If Gore got Florida, he wouldn't have needed Tennessee to win the White House, so Tennessee couldn't have been that important.

June 5, 2008 1:06 AM

rozenson said:

"I think Gore not even being able to carry his home state was more important than some tiny third party."

There were many reasons for Gore's "defeat" in 2000. But one of the first that comes to mind is the fact that Nader received more votes than the margin between Gore and Bush in both Florida and New Hampshire. Just because Gore made other mistakes in his campaign does not mean we should not be angry at Nader.

June 5, 2008 12:50 PM