To Pay Debt, Nader Selling His Parents' Cookbook

[quaoar]

The following is the last item of a political notebook in the WP:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10891-2004Dec18.html

It is probably just a matter of time before Ralph Nader is hawking apples on the street corner.

In this space two weeks ago, it was noted that Nader, the celebrated consumer advocate cum laughingstock presidential candidate, was seeking to pay off his campaign debt by selling autographed copies of his decades-old book "Unsafe at Any Speed" for $100 each. Nader, who received a whopping 429,000 votes last month, needed $450,000 to retire his debt.

Evidently, the old books didn't sell. Last week, Nader sent an e-mail to supporters asking them to buy a copy of a cookbook published 13 years ago by his mother and father. The book, "It Happened in the Kitchen: Recipes for Food and Thought," can be yours, Nader says, "for a contribution of $100 or more to our campaign -- which as you know was driven into debt by a multi-million dollar dirty tricks operation perpetrated by the Democratic Party."

What will Nader cook up next?

[fujiyama]

1. LOL

I really don't know what to say.

[DireStrike]

2. wtf... why always the democrat demonizing?

God fucking dammit. WORK with us, Ralph!

Think this guy'll be the next La Rouche?

[Liberal Veteran]

5. How dare you criticise Nader???

Don't you know he is the incarnation of all things progressive and everything he does is above reproach? :P

[Deja Q]

9. Nader is the WRONG guy to be dissing anybody.

He's no better than Bush, the "Do as I say and not as I do" type. :puke:

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. What a prick!

Like he doesn't have enough of his own fuckin' money to retire this debt. The guy is loaded!

[w4rma]

4. $100 for a cookbook? Don't get conned. (nt)

[MADem]

6. If the bastard needs the money

...he should ask everyone who voted for him to send him a dollar, then he'd have four grand left over.

Screw Ralph, King of Hubris and not much else. He should ask his pals in the GOP to pony up the cash....after all, they were willing to bankroll him in every competitive Dem state. Some friends, Ralphie...but then, he was the only one who didn't see it. The old fool!

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Or perhaps he could ask some of those deep pocketed repubs...

...who were funding his campaign to pay up?

[JerseygirlCT]

8. The out of control ego on that man

is really unbelievable.

No, Ralph, we don't want you for president. We don't want your cookbook, either. We could use a sane voice, but you've stopped being that when personal attention became more important that attention to the issues.

[Moloch]

10. Muhahahahaah

bwahahahahahaah

oh that's funny

[The Zanti Regent]

11. Hey, Ralph, ask my only child what he thinks about your cook book...

OOPS, gee Ralph, you can't because my son was killed from his injuries sustained in Iraq. You know, the war YOUR PAL BUSH sent him to???????

Thank you Ralph, for putting my son in the Los Angeles VA Cemetery.

Thanks for NOTHING, Ralph!

now go back to your strawberries that you do for fun, you worthless fucking piece of shit!

[quaoar]

12. I'm very sorry about your son.

[yorkiemommie1]

13. we go past there often

and i always feel so sad at the row upon row of white crosses. i am so very sorry and i shall think of you and your son every time we pass there.

[Merlin]

16. Thank you for sharing your story. The best thing you can do...

is to tell it loud and clear and often wherever and whenever.

Deepest sympathies, and all the best to you.

[CanSocDem]

14. Isn't it time to let up on Nader...

.....or did he lose the election for the DNC????

I could understand this attitude before the election and I sort of supported the marginalization of Nader. Now, however, it appears that there are bigger problems in the DNC, than worrying about losing votes to a more progressive 3rd party candidate.

It could be argued that marginalizing Nader was what lost the election.

[Arkana]

15. Ah, Saint Ralph has come out of his post-election coma

and resumed bashing the Democrats. All is right with the world. :grr:

[Merlin]

17. Could he be broke? Or is he merely trying to get other to pay...

for his own folly?

[Dancing_Dave]

18. Looks like Ralph paid less per vote than Democratic canidates!

In 2004 at least. Of course, he didn't have to worry about votes being taken by electronic fraud. And he was a hell of a lot more frank about electoral fraud goin' on than John Kerry!

[Downtown Hound]

19. What a con job

Nader's got several million kicking around in the bank. He's not broke. Just playing his supporters for more money. Asshole.

[Earth_First]

20. Couldn't he simply raise the PIRG fee...

that he is fleecing college student's from out of their student activities fees?

[Bono71]

21. I used to like Nader (past tense).