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Ralph Nader on CSPAN about possible 2012 run: If you’re never willing to lose, you’re never going to win

By on February 13, 2011 1:08 PM

Via Punk Patriot: Ralph Nader on CSPAN:

In regards to a possible 2012 presidential run, Nader says he is looking for another progressive candidate to get behind, but has not yet decided whether he will run himself again if he can’t find one that is willing and suitable. He brings up the unfairness of debate exclusion and ballot access barriers, and says he has a new “debate strategy” which he does not elaborate on. He says he will encourage more people to run at the local, state and national level.

Punk Patriot’s comment is that US ballot access barriers are “kind of like how in Egypt other parties are allowed to run, except they are disqualified for technical reasons.”

Ralph Nader was on the ballot as an independent presidential candidate in 2008 and 2004 and as the Green Party presidential candidate in 2000 and 1996.

17 Comments

  1. FYI! [More Don Lake] February 14, 2011

    REgarding #16, for an ear full on Nader’s Raiders and the vacationing law students in California’s summer of 2004, Citizens For A Better Veterans Home, [email protected], 619.420.0209

  2. Fun K. Chicken February 14, 2011

    @16 LOL

  3. Bryan February 14, 2011

    If Nader runs again, he or his followers really screwed up in South Carolina. They collected signatures to put him on the ballot, when the same number is needed to get a party recgonized. Would have saved him or an Indy of his choosing a lot of time and money….

    How about…Seat belts are Too Damn Tight Party.

  4. Fun K. Chicken February 14, 2011

    Nader’s people said they will call Milnes’s people.

  5. NewFederalist February 14, 2011

    Good! I hope you get a response so you can begin a dialog.

  7. NewFederalist February 13, 2011

    BTW, Bob I am being serious. If ever there would be someone who could champion your PLAS idea I would think Ralph Nader would be the guy. He may very well not buy it but what do you have to lose?

  8. NewFederalist February 13, 2011

    Give it a shot! What do you have to lose?

  9. Robert Milnes February 13, 2011

    NF @4, I guess I have assumed I wouldn’t be able to get through to him. I tried to get through to Gravel in 2008. Got to his campaign manager, Skyler McKinley. That is as far as I got.
    Maybe I’ll try.

  10. Robert Capozzi February 13, 2011

    pac, can’t say I agree. If you don’t run, it’s 100% guaranteed that you are not running.

    Yours sounds to me like a profound set up for failure!

  11. Porn Again Christian February 13, 2011

    One thing is for sure, when you don’t run you are 100% guaranteed to lose.

  12. Robert Capozzi February 13, 2011

    If you are willing to lose and you act accordingly, you will lose.

    The only way to “win” is to transcend the concepts of winning and losing.

  14. NewFederalist February 13, 2011

    Bob- Why don’t you just give Ralph a call and ask?

  15. Porn Again Christian February 13, 2011

    Please don’t encourage him.

  16. Jimmy Clifton February 13, 2011

    Why Robert. Why?

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