Obstinate, Hopefully Irrelevant

[saavedra77]

We asked nicely.

I don't know why Nader would think that reprising his 2000 and 2004 campaigns will work out any better, this time ... except that he has an ego the size of Alaska and the obstinacy of the Flat Earth Society.

Which he does. So I guess that no one should be surprised that he's going to tilt at that windmill, anyway.

Of course, the 2000 race was freakishly close, Nader was largely irrelevant in 2004. We can hope that he'll be similarly ineffectual, in 2008--only that the Democrat nominee is the one who's clearly ahead, this time around, as the polls collated at Real Clear Politics consistently predict in an Obama-McCain race.

X-posted to ljdemocrats

Comments

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I do wish he'd stop running, if only to allow the left to seem like less of a joke to the rest of the country.

The one good thing i can imagine coming out of this is that if the Republicans decide to fund him again it might bleed enough money out of their vast coffers to hurt their chances somewhere.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

Let's just hope that the general election campaign isn't close, this time. If this proves to be a strongly Democratic year, then the effect of Nader campaign could be fairly benign.