Might the MSM be miffed at the prospect of Ralph Nader making problems for the Dem candidate?
Ralph Nader will always have a place in Republicans' hearts for his yeoman work in Florida in 2000. But Democrats and the MSM apparently aren't looking so kindly on the hard-left crusader. Consider this comment from CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider [file photo] on this morning's Late Edition, commenting on Nader's announcement on today's Meet the Press that he was again running for president.
JOHN KING: Is there a niche for Ralph Nader that could actually have an impact on the race?
BILL SCHNEIDER: It's a disappearing niche. In 2000 when he ran, he got about 2.8 million votes. In 2004, he got fewer than half a million votes. I imagine anyone left who's going to vote for Ralph Nader are probably people who wouldn't vote if Ralph Nader weren't running. They're the real die-hard. He really has gone over the past eight years, back in 1996 as a green candidate. He's gone from being a revered, national icon to something of a public nuisance.
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Revered by whom? Nuisance to whom?
Aside: Note this intriguing statement by Nader about Obama, made during his MTP appearance: "He was pro-Palestinian when he was in Illinois before he ran for the state Senate. Now he's, he's supporting the Israeli destruction of the tiny section called Gaza."
Makes you wonder what other controversial positions Obama might have taken back in his community-activist days. His Dem primary opponents presumably didn't have much interest in disinterring them, since they would only reinforce Obama's image as a true "progressive." But the general election is a different kettle of fish. It's a fair bet that even as we speak Republicans are hard at work combing through the Obama record.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Is he going to now tell us
February 24, 2008 - 15:45 ET by LighthouseJIs he going to now tell us to be rid of this silly two-party system?
Let's just jail people for their dissent.
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I have been laughing my
February 24, 2008 - 16:00 ET by bigtimerI have been laughing my arse off at the different reactions about Nader running again from the left side of the aisle..what are they going to do if Bloomie gets in I wonder...poor babies how dare anyone come in and disturb the agenda with Obama and his free train ride to the WH...
As to the repubs being hard at work sifting through info about Obama, it isn't that hard to do...it will be easy work, including his church and minister who he has tried to distance himself from here lately...let alone other radical ties he may have had in the past, the repubs had better get a spine and keep one during this election, not let the msm rule them and make them back down and be their usual timid self's.
Sure was funny when it was Romney and his religion now isn't it?
Obama had better get some scrutiny about the Trinity church and the minister...completely racist as far as I am concerned, one world racist dream too...
Run Nader Run
February 24, 2008 - 16:10 ET by Lame CherryThe only reason Ralph Nader took in fewer votes last election was because George Bush was so successful and John Kerry was such a political retard.
After the Obamania is doused with the cold water of reality, Ralph Nader voters will once again come out. He might in fact have a much larger voter impact than before.
Nader holds some very important and vital subjects as much as Pat Buchanan did in his appeal. In many ways Nader and Obama if you crossed them and left out other parts, you get allot of the old Democratic worker party.
Liberals are really against Nader because if he pulls 5 to 10 million voters this time which he can do........and McCain puts Lynn Cheney on the ticket and pulls in a 5% margin by gaining goofy women who vote only for women and that flex vote of gays who only vote for the one in the closet, then one starts looking at this dyanmic.
A 49 49 tie between Obama (Gore) or McCain.
Infuse Ralph Nader and it becomes 45 49 McCain.
Infuse Lynn Cheney and it becomes 42 Obama and 52 McCain.
When one deals in margins like that it spells landslides for the GOP.
That is what liberals are very concerned about.
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"It's a fair bet that even
February 24, 2008 - 16:23 ET by TE"It's a fair bet that even as we speak Republicans are hard at work combing through the Obama record."
It's a fair bet that Bill Schneider will declare in a Clinton News Network "fact check" of a McCain-Feingold restricted campaign ad about Barack Hussein Obama, that rather than being the militant leftist as portrayed by the Republican campaign ad, Obama is a "pragmatic moderate" who "works well with Republicans" and "reaches out to Republicans", blah, blah, blah, .... Who, though, will be the first to declare Obama a "moderate": CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, al Reuters, al McClatchy or MSDNC?
What about Ron Paul
February 24, 2008 - 16:38 ET by TjexciteWhat if Ron Paul goes for a independent is he too a public nuisance. Why not just make it a one party and call the opponent public nuisance.
I thought Nader's real
February 24, 2008 - 16:46 ET by MidAmericaI thought Nader's real purpose was to make the democrat candidate look like a centrist.
Ralph Nader = Here Comes the Socialism
February 24, 2008 - 16:50 ET by PopularTechNader on the Issues
- Adopt single payer national health insurance
- Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
- No to nuclear power, solar energy first
- Aggressive crackdown on corporate crime and corporate welfare
- Open up the Presidential debates
- Adopt a carbon pollution tax
- Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
- Impeach Bush/Cheney
- Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
- Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
- Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
- Work to end corporate personhood
Why is Ralph running? Hitlary and Osama are not socialist enough.
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You said it Popular Tech
February 24, 2008 - 21:17 ET by sentforth5I just heard PBS belly-achin' about him and I guess I don't get it.
You'd think they would love him.
Hack.
February 24, 2008 - 19:01 ET by the strugglerWilliam Schneider---CNN Senior Political Partisan.
I like anything that pisses this Leftoid off.
PUBLIC NUISANCE...
February 25, 2008 - 07:12 ET by danybhoySome people might consider both Bill Schnider & CNN as a Public Nuisance, maybe even a Public Enemy.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
That Silly Nader
February 24, 2008 - 23:14 ET by CobraMan"He's gone from being a revered, national icon to something of a public nuisance."
That's because he went from an activist “icon” which the liberals could use to attack the Republicans to an annoying presidential candidate that actually takes votes away from the "chosen one" of the Democratic party.
Cobra... Yeah that good
February 24, 2008 - 23:33 ET by bigtimerCobra...
Yeah that good ol' Nader is a pesky little fly in their oinment...
Ya gotta love the guy, he is really useful for something after-all... every four years or so.....
LMAO!
Well with Louis Farrakhan
February 25, 2008 - 03:06 ET by jcrapes4Well with Louis Farrakhan endorsing Obama that should give the GOP some more ammo against Obama.
Louie...Louie
February 25, 2008 - 03:18 ET by RackieThe Honorable Minister is looking for a cabinet post.