[Sosfbay-discuss] Nader leaves '08 door open...

[Andrea Dorey]

Greens asking Nader to not run is like the Demos asking the Greens  
not to run--both using the "spoiler" argument.  We're about free and  
open elections, aren't we?  If not, we've now become part of a new  
amalgamation that could be called the Grublicrats!      : - ))
Andrea

On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:46 PM, JamBoi wrote:

> My $.02= Nader will hurt the Green Party's candidate if he runs again.
> We can be quite sure he won't get our nomination (after all in all
> likelihood he wouldn't want it anyway), so he'll be direct  
> competition.
>  It will be a bummer to have to criticize the Nadermeister.  :- 
> (  but I
> guess we're all about competition, and we'll have plenty of that this
> year.  I love Nader's points and rhetoric and we can certainly
> appropriate that freely. :-)  One of his quotes this last weekend
> called the Republicrats duopoly arrangement of controlling our
> government "the elected Dictatorship". Nice!!!  Say hmm... wasn't
> Hitler elected? ....
>
> Green solidarity!
>
> Drew
>
> http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx? 
> type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-02-04T190207Z_01_N04353722_RTRUKOC_0_US 
> -USA-POLITICS-NADER.xml&WTmodLoc=USNewsHome_C2_domesticNews-1
>
> Nader leaves '08 door open, slams Hillary Clinton
> Sun Feb 4, 2007 2:02pm ET19
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader on
> Sunday left the door open for another possible White House bid in 2008
> and criticized Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as "a panderer
> and a flatterer."
>
> Asked on CNN's Late Edition news program if he would run in 2008, the
> lawyer and consumer activist said, "It's really too early to say. ...
> I'll consider it later in the year."
>
> Nader said he did not plan to vote for Clinton, a Democratic senator
> from New York and former first lady.
>
> "I don't think she has the fortitude. Actually she's really a panderer
> and a flatterer. As she goes around the country, you'll see more of
> that," Nader said.
>
> On whether he would be encouraged to run if Clinton gets the  
> Democratic
> nomination, Nader said, "It would make it more important that that be
> the case."
>
> Democratic candidates he likes include former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel
> and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, he said.
>
> Nader ran for president as an independent in 2004 and as the Green
> Party candidate in 2000, when some Democrats said he siphoned away
> votes from former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, helping  
> Republican
> George W. Bush to win.
>
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>
> JamBoi
> Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer
>
> "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon)
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