Nader picks running mate

Matt Gonzalez??? heck, that's almost votable!

Thanks, Ralph. This will make it even easier for McCain to win the presidency. Enjoy your campaign, it is going to be a landslide anyway.

U go Ralph. If anyone's really interested in what Nader's "story" is all about, rent the DVD "An Unreasonable Man." Very inspiring!!!

Nader is a joke and should stay out of it. I find it very amusing that he pokes his head out once every four years and then criticizes those politicians who are actually trying to do something other than help republicans succeed. I suppose that's where nader never lets the republicans down.

Ralph Nader might be the choice of many American Democrats who for the first time don't have a white male as a candidate.

With our current system of presidential election, those votes, if any, would be wasted, carrying only a message.

What a self absorbed buffoon he is. Like Jesse Jackson, he never met a photo op he didn't like.

Go NADER!

Matt Gonzalez is a fool.

That's who I'm voting for now.

I really think the Republicans pay Mr. Nader to run just to try and take as many Democrate votes away from a really strong candidate. They laugh every time he runs because they know he will never win but just cause damage to the Democrate Party!!

Oh good grief! This poor sad sack has never been and will never be more than a spoiler amongst the addled and unconvinced electorate. He sucks votes from whatever opinion, however ill-considered, that might actually inform the electoral college. This silly candidacy is nothing more than a vanity intended to cause disruption of the most serious national election of the past hundred years. To be relevant, he should invest his unearned millions in time-share condominiums.

Apparently Nader would cut off funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the troops more vulnerable than they already are. Senators Clinton and Obama are in favor of bringing the troops home but not for denying them the means to carry out their mission while they're there. Sounds to me like senility is setting in on Mr. Nader.

"Nader, whom many Democrats blame for costing Al Gore the White House in 2000 ..."

This is the comment you and other media ALWAYS include in any story about Ralph Nader.

None of you have the have the journalistic ethical standards or concern for accuracy to include: "Nader recieved the votes of millions of Americans because they WANTED TO HAVE HIM ON THE BALLOT TO VOTE FOR."!!

Ho Hum. Here we go again. As a consumer advocate, Ralph did much good however, he did rustle the fur on the cat years ago. That's why he will never get elected to any office. Remember, "ego" has been the downfall of many good candidates.
I forgot who wrote it; there was a book written many years ago titled, "How To Win Friends and Influence People" which should be required reading for anyone planning to enter politics or coporate management for that matter.

His running is just away to decrease the democratic votes and making it a easy win for the republicans. Remember history.

Your Inflated Ego is showing Ralph, you loser. After your last mindnumbing vote of 0.3% I predict you won't get enough votes to fill a thimble with spit. I did better than that running against Tom DeLay with no money.

Just take your ego and go away. No one cares about you anymore.

Democrats don't waste your votes. Ralph Nader has as much of a chance of being voted in as President of the USA as mushrooms will suddenly starting to photosynthesize their life sustaining nutrients.

It seems odd that the other "parties" don't have to go through the same rigorous and competitive primary elections that republicans and democrats do. I think it should be mandatory... no party can offer up a presidential candidate without first having a primary election, and only those espoused to that party can vote in it.

Then once Nader has won a primary election, he can go on to compete in a general election. Otherwise, it's just a stupid game, ridiculous at best, disastrous at worst.

William, you can't blame Dem supporters for what they say. These are the facts:

1) Nader was on the ballot and Bush won
2) Had Nader not been on the ballot, Gore most likely would have won

No one can stop Nader from running - he has every right to, and the public has every right to vote for whoever they want - but don't deny the facts either. His candidacy pushed out Gore, and this year, he could potentially do the same for either Obama or Clinton.

Nader, Nader, Nader. You can stop trying to prove that you are popular to yourself and the American people. Take some of your money and invest it in therapy.

While there is no doubt you are a decent person; this year we have two very educated, personable and electable candidates. There is no longer a "lesser of the two" mentality.

You will not show well this time.

I used to at least respect Nader's positions somewhat, and him to a degree. It appears he is furiously trying to lose what's left. What a farce, for once we have a chance to do something, anything, about our sad state of affairs; and he has to pull this crap to help out the Republicans. They are going to need it this time buddy, I am sure it's why you are doing it, they are running scared, time to atone for their failures is coming soon. Nader, you are a thinly disguised Republican, go see Al Sharpton and you guys talk about your personal agendas, stop dragging the country down with your greed.

The people who are critical of Nader all think the world is devided into good Dems and bad Reps. The truth is that the Dems are just as bad as the Reps, and in both parties there is a great deal of corruption. Wake up and stop blaming Nader for our problems.

Nader has neither the education, the experience, nor the training required. He lacks political party support and will not likely get any with his political history. The country needs positive, dynamic, intelligent, thoughtful, informed and civil leadership, not a crabby, destructive, rabble-rousing crackpot in the White House.

I think everyone should give Nader a break. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't have air bags in cars and alot of established safety rules for workers. He has always tried to look out for the common man by going after irrisponsible companies who jepordize peoples health and wellbeing . I think by him running he is trying to get people out of the mindset that they only have two choices, Democratic or Repulician. It seems for a lot of people having more then these two choices is too overwhelming for them, maybe if they don't like choices and letting someone have the freedom to run under another label maybe they should make it eaiser on themselves and just move to a communist or dictatorship country. By the way if you want to blame someone for the Gore loss don't blame Nader blame people like in my family who are "born agains" and the huge conservative christian movement who voted for Bush purley on the anti-abortion issue not on anything else,,,sad but true these people didn't look at anything else like who would be best for the economy, jobs, foreign relations, ect.

I’ll vote for a door-knob or a box of toothpicks before I waste another vote on a Democrat.

I’ll vote for a hatbox with a severed head in it before I waste another vote on a Democrat.

I’ll vote for a paper-clip under my refrigerator before I waste another vote on a Democrat.

It isn’t a choice between Nader and the Democrats!

It’s a choice between Nader and a plastic spoon with ants on it!

It’s a choice between Nader and four broken pencils!

It’s a choice between Nader and a 1988 Oklahoma license plate!

It’s a choice between Nader and nothing!

Ummmm Has anyone told Ralph that of the voting public that could possibly vote for him, that these voters are already fairly happy with the other choices presented to them? I would think with 22 million Dems voting im a primary no less that he would get the picture. I could get behind Ralphie running in the past because he tried to offer something different, or at least said he did. What he offers us now is a constant need to be relevant. What could be more irrelevant than that?

I'm very grateful that Nader is running for president and will definitly vote for him. I refuse to vote for McCain (financed by the military industry), for Obama (financed by the nuclear power industry) and Clinton(financed by big health insurance players) - Is America so scared of REAL "democracy" that so many of you feel they need to cut Nader down? This is supposed to be a free country, right??? America reminds me more and more of Russia and China with it's two-party system (in which both parties want basically the same thing) GO NADER!

Ralph Nader is not only a four time presidential candidate loser; if he was such a good economist why is the U.S. having a huge economical downfall, with all the advice and talk shows he has been giving for too many years. GET LOST NADER, you had your chances, bow out gracefully, stop making trouble and a fool of yourself.

Kucinich, and to a lesser degree Edwards, were both marginalized as being too far "left". Now many of you here seem bent on marginalizing Nader. All three share having espoused cogent and persuasive ideas that mainstream voters may not grasp readily.

On the Republican side, Paul & Gravel have been similarly marginalized. Their ideas have been poorly understood and similarly ridiculed.

While those voters who ID themselves as being either mainstream Dem or mainstream Repub may not recognize it, Nader has a point when he suggests that there are indeed other perspectives. His views are both substantive and incisive.
He is, if you will, a radical.

The democrats show how ugly they can get when addressing Nader's candidacy. The anger it conjures is misdirected, and Nader gets misrepresented. I would almost think of voting for a democrat if they didn't come off as such mean spirited bullies who can't take responsibility for their own mistakes. To organize by fear is a strategy the democrats should not have taken from the republicans. The dollars that flood into the two parties is protected by free speech laws, and when someone is persecuted for challenging those dollars, with freedom of speech as there only means, that sort of sounds plutocratic, not democratic.