Ralph Nader has decided to run for President AGAIN. Nader is perhaps the most egotistical and tone-deaf person on earth. In a year when democrats have perhaps the most exciting nominees in decades, each with truly democratic messages and promise of real change, Nader's announcement strikes me as particularly disingenuous.
As we all know, Nader was the spoiler who ran in 2000, who many (dis) credit as causing the now disastrous presidency of George Bush. Even though I believe there was a clear choice between Al Gore and George Bush in 2000, Mr. Nader had every right to propose a different opinion back then. All of this was at the tail-end of the era when a personality was all you needed to win (Bush).
Aside from not having a personality to speak of, Mr. Nader also does not have a coalition behind him, nor a mandate for change from a number of diverse groups. His ego has gotten the best of him. There is no doubt that he is intelligent, but he misuses his intellect by grandstanding in ways that I find baffling.
On Meet the Press this morning, he soundly denounces McCain and poses the rhetorical question, "Why would the country vote for McCain when he is proposing to stay the Bush course?"
My question to him is, "Why would the country vote for an old, washed up, irrelevant, narcissistic dork like you?" My guess is that they won't.
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