Tim Blair

Nader the Nadir. Instant headline.

'Luke ... Ralph Nader is your father'
'Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!'

Run, Ralph! Don't let the Democrats steal the election from you like they did the last time.

Nader receives millions of dollars a year from speaking fees and donations from trial lawyers.

He has to have publicity or his speaking fees will drop. That is the reason he will run no matter what anybody else says.

I don't think Nader cares a bit more for Democratic Party principles than for Republican. He is an equal opportunity depiser. And what he really hates are corporations which he sees as selfish, corrupt, powerful and in bed with both parties.

Republicans should see to it that he gets on the ballot in every state.

There's no better way of highlighting the difference between the Republican and Democratic party than in the way they react to certain third-party presidential candidates.

Ross Perot ran twice ('92 and '96). He most certainly cost Bush, Sr. the 1992 presidential race. The amount of bitching and moaning you heard from the Republicans about Perot? None, nada, zip. They recognized that Crazy Ross had every right to run for president, end of story.

Ralph Nader ran once and is talking about running again. The Democrats scream like little girls.

Enough said.

Can we get Deanie to run as an Independent as well?

Ex-Republican Pat Buchanan canceled out the Nader vote in 2000, especially in Florida, so no, Nader did not cost Gore the election. I would argue that incompetence on the part of the *ahem* Democrats running the election in Broward and Palm Beach Counties hurt Gore far more than Nader.

Go ahead and run, Ralphie.

Speaking of tards, there's a poll on the Democratic Underground forum asking if Nader = Stalin.

You just can't make this stuff up.

Randal,

The Morlocks are wailing, gnashing and seething about the "Osama Surrounded" story in the Sunday Telegraph as well. Tards indeed.

Randal, that is just too awesome to be true (and by awesome I mean so absurdly horrifying that I can only laugh). I'm afraid to click and confirm it for myself.

"Speaking of tards, there's a poll on the Democratic Underground forum asking if Nader = Stalin.
You just can't make this stuff up."

I am just shocked that anyone on DU would speak ill of the late great comrade Stalin. Nader=Hitler? would be more in line with their thinking.

You guys aren't addressing the funniest part of the NYT story: The left-leaning Nation magazine...

Left-leaning? These are people who, to this day, defend, tooth and nail, the now-defunct USSR. Left-leaning. Yeah.

The Nation is furthest left of any significant publication in the US, yet the Old Grey Lady can only muster "left-leaning"? How pathetic. At the same time, any paper or magazine with a right-of-center view is branded as "right-wing" or better still, "far-right". Even more pathetic.

Has anyone else noticed the DUMBies are now referring to themselves as "center-left"? This is a new development: the "Progressives", once trumpeting the "Left", are now equivocating? What gives? Has Terry McAuliffe sent down new Election Season talking points?

It doesn't suprise me that they'd refer to themselves as centrists when they're fanatically trying every lie possible to gain some advantage in the coming election for the greater good of beating BusHitler. They're not crazy, -we're- the ones that're crazy. Why, I bet if Miranda posts in this thread, she'll be calling herself a centrist too, which is why she's too good for this plastic blogmire.

PS. This strategy already did wonders for Howard Dean. "I'm a liberal's liberal! I'm also a centrist! In fact, I'm fiscally conservative! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARH!"

I am just shocked that anyone on DU would speak ill of the late great comrade Stalin. Nader=Hitler? would be more in line with their thinking.

Actually, Catbert, one poster on the DU thread started typing before thinking, totally missed the point (Lord, how did that happen?) and wrote:
Comparing Nader to Hitler is an exaggeration....
Some Kerry supporters seem to have become so "blind" with fervor for his candidacy that will feel threatened by Nader. Repubs like to make comparisons to Hitler, it suits their nature and their propagandistic goal, but for real democrats to paint Nader (a progressive whether you like it or not) as Hitler is not only absurd by downright wrown. And I'm sorry but you steep to the level of some Republican operatives. Pissing people off is not going to move progressive voters to the Kerry camp, it only justifies our position even more, there is not a "big" difference between mainstream democratic candidates such as Kerry and Bush. Both use fearmongering and propaganda recklessly.

Reading a little DU on a late Saturday night/early Sunday morning is such an entertaining way to round off a hectic, stress filled week.

Ah, the web is a blessing. I remember the day when if you wanted to get a laff you had to actually dial the crackpot's phone number and connect to his BBS. Forget "Favorites" and "Bookmarks," you had a database of phone numbers for your modem to dial.

Here's another quote from the above DU thread I savored:
In present circumstances, Wrecker Nader is a left-deviationist tool of reaction, and needs treating as such....

And this was from the one of only guys talking with any sense on the thread!

You'd need a master of linguistic analysis, someone on the order of, uh, Noam Chomsky to decode this stuff!

BTW thanks, Randal, for pointing to the DU thread.

They've become the party of "Waaaaah"

Dean - Mommyyyy, they're picking on me..make them stopppppp.

Kerry - Mommyyyyy, they're running against meee..make them stopppppp.

Timothy, we need the Chomskybot!

*laughing really rather quite hard* I love the "You steep to the level of some Republican operatives" part. Watch out for black helecopters, guys!