Ralph Nader & Presidential Incorrigibility
2000 election redux?
The Ralph Nader Democratic Caucus Campaign Draft Committee has been advertising on Craigslist for campaign organizers.
One of the ads:
Paid Presidential Campaign Jobs
Reply to: job-431186109@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-09-24, 6:58PM CDT
Seeking 8 experienced (non-profit or political) organizers full time, and 12 field interns(6 part and 6 fulltime). Job Candidates must be residents of Iowa. Position begin December 15th and end Jan 15th. Candidates should be driven to and committed to progressive change.
Salary:
“Full time organizers”: $1000 per week(must be able to committ to 50 hours per week traveling state and attending meeting and house parties, mostly at night.
Fundraising not involved.) Meals and travel paid.
“Field interns”: $15 per hour 15 to 30 hours per week(max).Meals and travel paid.
Must be over 21, students and verterans and senior citizens welcome.
Please forward resume and information to John O’Connell c/o the email address privide. If the proper are found phone interview follow by a in person interview Oct 17 will follow.
Visit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader )for information on Mr. Nader.Ralph Nader Democratic Caucus Campaign Draft Committee.
New York, New York
To many Ralph Nader is a hero.
Fighting for the common man, environmental conservation, consumer rights, labor rights, and a harsh critic of powerful corporations, Nader’s work has had a positive influence on countless many. Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, cars are safer and Americans have more rights thanks in part to him. Last December the Atlantic Monthly named him one of the ‘Top 100 most influential figures in American history’, ahead of Richard Nixon and Herman Melville.
To many Ralph Nader is a spoiler.
Many cite Nader’s 2000 presidential run as tipping the balance to George W. Bush, partially enabling Bush to win the presidency over Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Al Gore. The historic imbecilic incompetency of the Bush administration has further rubbed salt into that wound. Those against the Iraq war feel this with greater intensity when pondering the unnecessary rapes, dismemberments, ophanings, child mutilations, and deaths Bush’s foreign policy has wrought.
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The 2008 presidential race has inflamed that old wound again, arguably part of the reason why Al Gore ranks high among Democratic candidates even though Gore has made no formal announcement to seek the presidency. Draft-Gore also has some steam and a new website.
Nader, of course, disagrees with the notion that he is to blame for the outcome of the 2000 presidential election and consequences of a Republican in office. In October of 2000 Nader said Bush and Gore were “Tweedledee and Tweedledum -they look and act the same, so it doesn’t matter which you get.”
With great sadness, history has proved that it does matter.
With polls citing liberal Democrats are content with their presidential candidate field, it is improbable Nader could earn enough votes to scratch the electorate surface. In Nader’s 2000 campaign for President of the United States he received 2,883,105 votes for 2.74% of the popular vote. In 2004 he received 463,655 votes, just 0.38%. If Al Gore doesn’t see a good enough opening for a presidential run this time around, a Nader bid would likely be occluded at the ballot box.
Ralph Nader has been a candidate for every U.S. presidential election since 1992 and shows no sign of stopping. Nader’s election failures can be distilled to a simple statement: People don’t vote for him. The problem for Nader is that he’s been on this ride several times before and thrown off each and every time.
Now Nader rightly assigns much of the blame to the two-party system in America, explained by CNN’s Candy Crowley here.
But if Nader does enter the race, it will surely be after the Democratic Primary, as there are currently plenty of left-leaners to choose from.
Entering the presidential fray once again will cause many to see Nader as even less as a hero and more like an incorrigible spoiler, especially with such strong, national anti-Republican sentiment and rising support for the Democrats in 2008. And unfortunately for his supporters, another Nader for President run would have the same, predictable outcome:
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