Nader bashes Green Party after not getting endorsement

[JohnLocke]

Nader Plays Down Green Party Rebuff
By David Finkel -- Washington Post
Monday, June 28, 2004
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A day after not getting the Green Party's endorsement for president, Ralph Nader brushed off the rejection as an inconvenience, described the party as "strange," called the party's national nominating convention "a cabal" and predicted who the big loser in its decision not to endorse him would be.
"The benefit was really for the Green Party," Nader said yesterday of what an endorsement of him would have meant. "I don't want to exaggerate it, so I'll just say massively more."
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Instead, by nominating Texas attorney David Cobb, Nader said, the party that made him its candidate in 1996 and 2000 will "shrink in its dimension" and "has jettisoned out of any influence on the Democratic Party."
Long before the nominating convention convened in Milwaukee over the weekend, Nader had made clear he did not want to be the party nominee for a third time because he is trying to expand his appeal. His hope was that the party would end up nominating no one and would instead endorse him. (...)
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Nonetheless, Nader played down the effects of not getting the endorsement as he headed toward Washington state, where 20 volunteers with signs reading "Does your candidate support gay marriage?" were hoping to secure enough signatures at a gay pride parade to put Nader on that state's ballot. "Most of them are modestly easy to get onto," he said of the bulk of the Green Party states.
He also questioned Cobb's pledge to campaign for local and state Green candidates in all 50 states but to avoid campaigning for himself in any state where polls show a close race between President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry
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"If you're trying to build a political movement, you don't turn your backs on people who happen to live in so-called close states," Nader said. "Our plan is to get as many votes nationally as possible.
"We're campaigning all-out."
As for the Green Party, he said, "I wish them well."
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[JaySherman]

1. Ralph 'Zell' Nader.

He really has lost it. Completely gone. Nothing left upstairs.

Just get it over with and join the rethugs Ralph!

[FlaGranny]

14. I don't think he wants to do that.

I think he really wants his own little dynasty - one of his own making. He should name it either the Naderican Party or the Ralphocratic Party.

[Sugarbleus]

2. Whiner.........

:cry::cry::cry::cry: baby!

Geez, louise. What part of Egomaniacle loser doesn't he understand?

Go home Ralph, it's over!

[bushwakker]

3. He sounds like Bush - out of touch with reality

[theivoryqueen]

4. crazy uncle ralph is acting grumpier than usual

he needs to drop that bone and help get bush outta the whitehouse.

[Faygo Kid]

5. What an ego

It's all about him now, isn't it? How sad; he has done so many good things, but is off the deep end at this point.

[JohnLocke]

6. Kick

[opihimoimoi]

7. The Attention Whore is Himself the Strange One

[wyethwire]

8. Those grapes were sour anyway n/t

[JohnLocke]

9. Kick

[Renew Deal]

10. Nader said people shouldn't vote for him in swing states.

Has he changed his mind on this?

[Cheswick2.0]

16. he never meant it

He lied in 2000, he lies now. He said he wouldn't campaign in swing states in 2000. He said that to get people to petition and work for him. Why the hell would anyone trust him now?

[Killarney]

11. Holy giant ego

[Loonman]

12. Sorry, Ralphie

You had your chance in 2000, but you lied and did campaign in swing states.

[JohnLocke]

13. Kick for dupe

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Tee hee, what a crybaby. But he can't say he wasn't warned.

:nopity::nopity::nopity:

[mzmolly]

17. Hmmm, Ralph calling the Greens *strange*

:eyes: