The republican party got an early easter basket sunday, 24 february, 2008 when
ralph nader announced on nbc's meet the press with tim russert(The same forum
where he announced his 2004 presidential run)That he was tossing his hat into
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the office of the president of the united states of america. In 1992 a
third-Party candidate, h.Ross perot, claimed a large share of the american vote,
nearly twenty(20)Percent, playing a role the republican base will never Chicago
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forget. The day following nader's announcement, new york
mayor michael bloomberg, who is apparently contemplating his own independent
presidential bid, defended ralph nader's right to seek the nation's highest
office. So while nader may be the nemises of the democratic party, it may be
that the republicans have a spoiler of their own on their hands.If so, like
h.Ross perot, he has enough money of his own to make the country take him
seriously-At least for a time. Nader is a member of the green party.He came to
prominence in the 1960s as a consumer advocate.His most significant program to
the mind of a car lover, like the tennessee mountain man, was spearheading the
demise of what he dubbed the coffin on wheels-The chevy corvair.Computer man saw
one of nader's rolling coffins in mint condition traveling on rossville blouvard
in chattanooga, tennessee just a week or so preceding nader's announcement, and
wondered if"The spoiler"Would show again. Given nader's ego and his apparent
thirst for power, he could have done no less.Having run unsuccessfully in 2000
and 2004, the 2008 bid will be nader's third run for the office.Will the third
time be the charm?Surely not. Although nader attracted just 2.7 percent of the
vote nationwide, the democrats have not forgotten, nor forgiven, Ralp Nader for
what they believe cost Al Gore the 2000 election.In 2004 he garnered only 0.3
percent of the vote, and yet he once again finds himself vilified in the
Blogosphere as being in bed with The Grand Old Party. Obama, who briefly
organized with a nader influenced group as a young man, taking the high road,
said,"Ralph nader deserves enormous credit for the work he did as a consumer
advocate, but his function as a perennial candidate is not putting food on the
table of workers. "Obama did opine, that ralph nader in recent years tended to
assume that candidates are fatally flawed if they fail to recognize the wisdom
of his views. Hillary, talking with reporters onboard her campaign plane said of
nader's run"Obviously it’s not helpful to whomever our democratic nominee is,
but it’s a free country".In reference to the al gore-George bush race of 20000,
she suggested that ralph nader's green party candidacy cost the nation
the"Greenest president'' it could have had.She believes nader's new candidacy
for the white house, at best, poses an unwelcome distraction. Nader has run as
both a green party candidate and an independent in past elections.He has not yet
declared how he cheap
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will run in the upcoming general election.Whatever his
decision, he will be a power with which the democratic party nominee will have
to contend. Not surprisingly, the republicans were not so dismissive.On the
other hand, ward harkavy, in the village voice blog, dubbed nader,"America's
suicide bomber"While the age saw him as the"Democrats bogeyman", and The Nation
Blog apparently believes America still needs Ralph Nader to be Public Citizen
Number One pursuing matters as a consumer advocate and not a presidential
candidate. Republican presidential candidate and former arkansas governor, mike
huckabee couldn't resist a little fun at nader's expense and joked on cnn that
republicans would welcome nader's entry into the race and hope that maybe a few
more will join in.Huckabee said in a television interview that a ralph nader
candidacy was a suicide mission and would more likely pull votes away from
democrats than republicans, and he welcomed the longtime consumer advocate into
the fray. Ron Paul's camp believes there is unhappiness among the electorate,
and that he(Paul)Best captures that anger, and that ralph nader is not the
proper vehicle for the expression of america's year of discontent.Nader, they
feel, was a spoiler in 2000 and will long be remembered as being responsible for
the election of george w.Bush, and that just as when he ran again in 2004 there
will be few who care in the final analysis. John mccain being the odds on
favorite to benefit the most from the nader candidancy has appropriately
remained mum on the subject.