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February 24th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

Ralph Nader - The Gift That Keeps On Giving

in: Announcements., Election 2008, John McCain, News, Opinion, Presidential Candidates

Although I’ve gone on record in the past few weeks favoring a Dem in the next General Election because I believe the next President of the United States will be another Carteresque failure, I’m slowly changing my mind. With the New York Times’ National Enquirer style attack on John McCain last week and today’s news that Ralph Nader is again entering the race, I have a renewed sense that victory for the GOP is at hand.

Since it looks as though that our next President will be John McCain, I think it is my duty as a Conservative to keep pointing out flaws in his governing style to help insure that he is not the Carteresque failure that I’ve previously predicted. Those of us on the right side of the sphere have that collective responsibility.

Today Ralph Nader has announced that he is again running for the Presidency of the United States as a “third party” candidate. Nader, who has become disenchanted with both the Democrat and Republican Parties, has twice before run for President under a “third party” bid.

I call Nader the “gift that keeps on giving” because each time he runs he peels away votes from the Democrats. Knowing this, earlier in the cycle he made a statement saying that he would not run later announced that he wouldn’t run as the Green Party candidate as he did in 2000, but at that time wouldn’t rule out running as an Independent which he announced today on Meet the Press that he is.

“You take that framework of people feeling locked out, shut out, marginalized and disrespected,” he said. “You go from Iraq, to Palestine to Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bumbling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts.”

“In that context, I have decided to run for president,” Nader told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” SOURCE

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are screaming over the prospect of Nader running because they know that every vote cast for Nader is one that wasn’t cast for them.

“Mr. Nader is somebody who if [you] don’t listen and adopt all of his policies, [he] thinks you’re not substantive. He seems to have a pretty high opinion of his own work,” Obama said. “Historically, he is a singular figure in American politics and has done as much as just about anybody on behalf of consumers, so in many ways, he is a heroic figure and I don’t mean to diminish him, but I do think there’s a sense now that, you know, if somebody’s not hewing to the Ralph Nader agenda then you must be lacking in some way.”

Clinton was also less than enthusiastic.

“Obviously, it’s not helpful to whoever our Democratic nominee is. But it’s a free country. I don’t know what party he’ll run on. Where did he run on last time? Does anybody remember? Was it on the Green Party? Well, you know, his being on the Green Party prevented Al Gore from being the greenest president we could have had and I think that’s really unfortunate. I think we paid a big price for it,” she said. SOURCE

John McCain has to be relishing the idea of a Democrat split in the vote come November.

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