Racist old hack Ralph Nader praises Sarah Palin

[Vicar In A Tutu]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/09/19/nader_palin/index.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. What a cute couple

Raaalph! Raaaaaaalph!

[ClarkUSA]

2. So Nader gets funded by Republicans, wants to primary Pres. Obama, and hearts Miss Piggy.

It doesn't take a genius to see Raplh Nader has got an agenda, although ensuring Bush's selection in 2000 was his crowning achievement. No wonder Republicans funded his presidential run(s).

[Vicar In A Tutu]

4. He and Cornel West make a good team.

They could be a kind of failed superhero duo. Rubber Faced Racist & his sidekick, The Human Caricature!

[Number23]

8. Cornel can be Captain Critique

Letting no issue go uncriticized, no matter how much of a bigoted, jealous, petty fool it makes him look in the process.

He'll run through the streets clutching discarded 2009 Obama inauguration tickets. And his utility belt will be full of used up bottles of Afro Sheen.

[vaberella]

3. Of course he does...but he's also the same man that wants to primary Obama & Dems agree with him.

You've got to love this shit. Obviously he has no ulterior motive and is only looking for the best of this country and wants to keep Obama honest.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

6. Of course, the GOP won't be secretly funding this little initiative!

No way at all!

I note with interest that Nader whispers rather than shouts any criticism of the GOP agenda. Time and time again. We know for a fact that he's racist - he has plenty of form in that area - but his abject failure the hold the GOP to task while accepting their greased coin also tells us that HE is the ultimate corporatist, that HE is a bona fide homophobe, that HE hates regulation and wants a jackboot in the face of the poor.

Of course, a loud minority of stupid as a bag of rocks "progressives" (I repeat, a MINORITY of people who identify as such) will lap it up and fail miserably to work towards a genuine solution, instead preferring to grandstand and holler like a neutered, ineffective left-wing Tea Party. And they wonder why Republicans keep getting elected, and have the audacity to complain about what Reagan, Bush et al do when in office.

[SteveM]

5. It is unfortunate that populist politics has been ceded to the Far Right...

Not all of the history of populist politics is good, esp. the racist component. But the increasingly calcified stances of standard-issue 'liberalism' have gotten in the way of seeing the need for some very fundamental change in this country: The protection of both workers' rights, and the ability for people to make meaningful change about how government will serve them. Those are certainly not all the issues we need to deal with, and I don't consider Palin much of a populist; it's just that there is so little effort made by anyone anywhere to take up the banner of populism, or even the increasingly abstract notion that we are a government of, by and for the people.

Again, I repeat: No one wants anything to do with the "left." Not the GOP (of course), not the Democrats, not Obama, not MSM, not nobody. As a political force (which is not to say individuals or organizations), the Left is dead. The only time you hear the term "Left," is when MSM (including PBS repeatedly) is promoting the agenda du jour: Third-way, No-Labels, Centrism.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

7. I also want to be fair to Carville here...

..I often disagree with him, but his words for Nader are almost bang on the money (Gore's shitty campaign helped Bush, too):

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/carville-on-possible-primary-challenge-nader-has-done-enough-damage/

"Don’t you think Ralph Nader has done enough damage to the country? I mean, he was probably single handedly responsible for electing George Bush,” the Democratic strategist said on “GMA.” “Maybe the man should consider retiring.”