Patterico's Pontifications

2/24/2008

Ralph Nader Is Running

Filed under: 2008 Election — Patterico @ 8:29 am



Great news. But does it come too late to do McCain any good?

Personally, I think the race won’t be close enough this time for him to matter.

UPDATE: I put up a post at Hot Air which explains how it might help to have Ralph in the mix criticizing Obama.

UPDATE x2: Speaking of candidates with no chance, Allah has a clip of Mike Huckabee on Saturday Night Live last night, mocking his own reluctance to get out. It’s actually very funny.

30 Responses to “Ralph Nader Is Running”

  1. Now we just need Ron Paul to run as an Independent as well, to even it out. Wouldn’t that create the most crazy election ever? Go Ron Paul! Do it! I want to see these “inevitable” candidates squirm.

    Seixon (40844b)

  2. Ralph won’t matter again, just like ’04. in fact, the most attention he’s likely to get in this cycle, he’s getting today. But if Bloomberg jumps in, anything is possible…including the first modern third party presidency.

    Pablo (99243e)

  3. Something’s gotta give. Would welcome the scenario.

    Vermont Neighbor (c6313b)

  4. Do you really think Obama is going to crush McCain? I dunno…the campaign would have to go very badly for McCain. However, if he follows the CW to be just a skosh to the right of the Mighty O, you might have a point.

    Go all out, John. Give them something to believe in.

    Patricia (f56a97)

  5. What does the man think he’s going to accomplish?

    Pablo: why do you think Bloomberg would be able to defeat McCain and Obama? I think the most he would do is throw it to the House to decide.

    aphrael (9e8ccd)

  6. Just between us, I think Huckabee is more of a mensch than McCain, Hillary or Obamessiah and I have yet to figure out the reasons for the antipathy he has generated among all my blog friends.

    nk (669aab)

  7. I thought Huckabee was funny on SNL. He has surprisingly good timing.

    DRJ (3eda28)

  8. I think Nader makes a BIG difference. Nader will actually take on Obama’s record, his positions, and empty suit, from a perspective the press will recognize and respond to as its own. By contrast, McCain doesn’t have a clue how to go negative on Obama — which is the only way McCain has a chance of winning.

    PrestoPundit (ff5e16)

  9. Ralph Nader the consumer advocate who thinks that american consumers are too dumb to make their own choices he is a complete jerk we dont need or want this nit wit in the whitehouse

    krazy kagu (3e8790)

  10. Obama will simply need to point to Nader and say, “he’s the old time socialist. I’m the new kind of socialist.”

    kishnevi (6273ad)

  11. I have yet to figure out the reasons for the antipathy he has generated among all my blog friends.

    The uncanny resemblance to Gomer Pyle ?

    Taltos (4dc0e8)

  12. “I have yet to figure out the reasons for the antipathy he has generated among all my blog friends.”

    His snake oil doesn’t work as advertised.

    daleyrocks (906622)

  13. There’s no way Ralph “look at me!” Nader will make a different this time. Even morons have realized he’s the presidential equivalent of the drunk uncle who shows up at Christmas dinner for the sole purpose of making his sister miserable, and otherwise ignores his family.

    fishbane (fbe4d4)

  14. As a conservative, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Ralph Nader for his 2000 Green Party presidential campaign. He siphoned enough votes from the left away from Al Gore in Florida to allow George W Bush to squeak by, and win the presidency. The Republican Party, the United States in general, and the whole world, are much better off thanks to Mr Nader’s efforts.

    And I’ll add my personal thanks as well: thanks to the Bush tax cuts, which Mr Nader made possible, my family has saved over $10,000 in income taxes!

    Ralph Nader: he did more good than he ever knew!

    Dana (556f76)

  15. Pablo: why do you think Bloomberg would be able to defeat McCain and Obama? I think the most he would do is throw it to the House to decide.

    I don’t know about would, but I’d go along with could. Why? Rumor has it he’s prepared to spend a billion dollars (Yes, with a “B”, and yes, he has it to spend.) doing so. If crazy ass Ross Perot could pull 19% in ’92, imagine what Bloomie could do with that kind of warchest in a country that’s been beaten to death with partisan bullshit for a good 16 years now.

    Pablo (99243e)

  16. Keeping in mind that Bloomberg has now officially repudiated both parties after having membership in each of them…

    Pablo (99243e)

  17. If Bloomie spends that amount of money, and wins, he better be spectacular.
    If he screws the pooch, he could end up with the distinction of being the richest man in America to be assassinated.

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  18. I think there’s a rule that, if you want to be President, you have to be taller than I am. I’m 5’6″ so that rules Bloomberg out.

    DRJ (3eda28)

  19. DRJ for President!

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  20. No way. You have to be taller than I am so, by definition, I’m never eligible.

    DRJ (3eda28)

  21. Your great stature is your intellect.
    You are a GIANT!
    The country needs you.

    Another Drew (8018ee)

  22. DRJ: For you, we’d make an exception.

    kishnevi (289685)

  23. DRJ: I believe that teh first President Adams was shorter than you.

    Dana (556f76)

  24. It’s a modern-day rule.

    DRJ (3eda28)

  25. DRJ,

    You should re-think your decision. A victory would mean 8 more years the White House press corps would have to spend in the Texas heat during Presidential vacations!

    chas (fb7ad4)

  26. DRJ, you are unfailingly polite, honest and intelligent. That makes you uniquely qualified.

    So what if you’re ‘only’ 5’6″?

    Paul (236e0e)

  27. Besides, that rule was was meant for men.
    it doesn’t applly to women.

    jeffrey smith (da26af)

  28. I dont care for OBAMA ether

    krazy kagu (8d6a8f)

  29. Yeah! Go Ralph!

    My liberal family is pissed off, but I’m not. I won’t complain about third-party candidates, even if they hurt the Democrats’ chances: we need more third-party candidates…

    Leviticus (43095b)

  30. Not that I’d vote for Nader, by the way.

    Leviticus (43095b)


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