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.
20 responses so far ↓
1 Robert Milnes // Feb 13, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Me, Ralph. Me.
2 Jimmy Clifton // Feb 13, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Why Robert. Why?
3 Porn Again Christian // Feb 13, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Please don’t encourage him.
4 NewFederalist // Feb 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Bob- Why don’t you just give Ralph a call and ask?
5 paulie // Feb 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm
@4
6 Robert Capozzi // Feb 13, 2011 at 3:42 pm
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.
7 Porn Again Christian // Feb 13, 2011 at 4:11 pm
One thing is for sure, when you don’t run you are 100% guaranteed to lose.
8 Robert Capozzi // Feb 13, 2011 at 4:23 pm
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!
9 Robert Milnes // Feb 13, 2011 at 7:03 pm
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 NewFederalist // Feb 13, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Give it a shot! What do you have to lose?
11 NewFederalist // Feb 13, 2011 at 7:49 pm
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?
12 Video: Will Ralph Nader run for Prez in 2012? « OntheWilderSide // Feb 13, 2011 at 10:47 pm
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13 Robert Milnes // Feb 14, 2011 at 4:23 am
NF, I sent an email to info@nader.org
14 NewFederalist // Feb 14, 2011 at 10:41 am
Good! I hope you get a response so you can begin a dialog.
15 Fun K. Chicken // Feb 14, 2011 at 10:43 am
Nader’s people said they will call Milnes’s people.
16 Bryan // Feb 14, 2011 at 12:14 pm
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.
17 Fun K. Chicken // Feb 14, 2011 at 12:26 pm
@16 LOL
18 FYI! [More Don Lake] // Feb 14, 2011 at 2:16 pm
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, donlake@ymail.com, 619.420.0209
19 Nader Is “Very Unlikely” To Run Again In 2012 | Independent Political Report // Jul 5, 2011 at 6:34 am
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