Ralph Nader May Run Again

Ralph Nader hinted he my run for President again.

Asked specifically if he would run in 2008, Nader said it is "too early to say. ... (I'm) considering it. We're going to see what the Democrats come up with.''

Nader said there is a strong chance he would run if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination. "She's just another bad version of Bill Clinton," Nader said.

Does Nader actually expect people to believe that he can actually garner more votes than Hillary? I somehow doubt that. Nader has ran for President in 1996, 2000 and 2004. His already small base has dwindled.

Nader contends that people accusing his candidacy of taking votes away from Al Gore is "political bigotry. Matt Welch covered the 2000 Nader campaign. He found that Nader's campaign wokers were playing fast and loose with the exit polling numbers.

Eighteen hours earlier, I had watched the Nader 2000 crew engage in a far more flagrant manipulation of the truth, more egregious than anything else I witnessed during my two months covering the campaign for the lefty news site WorkingForChange.com. Even before the first preliminary exit poll data crossed the wires, young staffers, on the orders of campaign headquarters, were frantically devising multiple formulas to "prove" that Nader didn't cost Gore the election, no matter what the results might say later. "That's shocking," I told one of the harried idealists charged with carrying out the deception. The faces around the computer, for what it's worth, did not register any surprise.

Nader has attacked Republican policies for generations. The Nixon and Reagan administrations for well-known for opposition to consumer advocacy. He has positioned himself as an anti-war lefty candidate. Which explains why Nader falsely claimed that his 2004 campaign was not backed by Republican money.

"We have no indication that the Republicans are trying to maneuver support for us,'' he said at a recent press conference. "There are three or four major Republican donors who have contributed to my campaign. But that's because I worked with them on a number of issues. ... It's all very small, relatively small, contributions. And we like it that way.''

But the financial records show that $23,000 in checks of $1,000 or more have come from loyal Republicans. Among those who have given recently to Nader are Houston businessman Nijad Fares, who donated $200,000 to President Bush's 2000 inaugural committee; Richard J. Egan, the former ambassador to Ireland, and his wife, Pamela, who have raised more than $300,000 for Bush; Michigan developer Ghassan Saab, who has given $30,000 to the RNC since 2001; and frozen food magnate Jeno Paulucci, and his wife, Lois, who have donated $150, 000 to GOP causes since 2000 alone.

Nader has a history of doing things that he knows pisses people off. Former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir has met Nader.

The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir is pleading with Deadheads everywhere not to vote
for Ralph Nader. Performing on Saturday in Boston, Weir told the band's
followers to be sure to vote, but then exorted, "Don't vote for Nader. I know
him. He's an a--hole," our spies tell us. The band then broke into "Johnny B.
Goode," a theme song of the Kerry-Edwards campaign ...

Nader demanded that the Congressional Black Caucus publicly apologize for racially attacking him. Nader was asked about the shouting heard in the meeting. He told the Associated Press as nothing more than an "exciting exchange." If Nader was so racially offended. Why didn't he mention these remarks to the media after he left the meeting. It's rather odd to ask for an apology nearly a month after Rep. Melvin Watt's alleged remarks. It has been confirmed that Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick told Nader to "get your ass out." Apparently, she wasn't sold on Nader's sales pitch that he could win the White House and help Democrats win back Congress.

“I don’t think he gets it,” said Rep. Albert Wynn (D-Md.).

“The meeting was about strategy and the pragmatic planning to defeat [President] Bush,” said Wynn.

“We told him how at strategic level, his candidacy defeats a common a goal,” said Wynn, who criticized Nader for adopting a sanctimonious tone at the beginning of the meeting.

“We were particularly offended by Nader’s exhibitionism, his selfishness and egotism,” Wynn added.

There are two possible scenarios for another Nader run:

1. Nader truly believes he can win.

2. Nader isn't running to become President. He has deep contempt for the Democratic Party and prefers Republicans winning the White House.

You decides for yourself which example is more plausible.