Ralph’n'Ready
February 24th, 2004 - 12:16 am
OpinionJournal says the Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for Ralph Nader. Read:
It’s also amusing to see liberals suddenly appalled by the Nader phenomenon they have done so much to create. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Mr. Nader railed as ever against “corporate” interests, a line he began 39 years ago when he launched his first media campaign against the Chevrolet Corvair.Mr. Nader is best understood as the inventor of today’s nexus of liberal politics and trial-lawyer opportunism. His network of organizations have long been suspected of taking trial-lawyer cash, but it is impossible to tell because Mr. Nader refuses to disclose their financial backers. Yet just like Senators Kerry and Edwards he denounces the influence of sinister “special interests.” It’s a little ungrateful for Mr. Edwards to now upbraid the man who did so much to make the Senator’s own fortune and political career possible.
They make a good point, but it’s a little obscured by Nader’s bedroom eyes in OJ’s portrait of him.
Your site came up and those eyes went through me like a laser beam. AHHHHHHHH!
Yeah Genuine, but which set–Nader’s or Stephen’s? Everytime I scrolled past Green’s old photo, I swear I could hear Rudee Vallee crooning Vagabond Lover.
Not to me! he added hastily.
That drawing is almost as disturbing as Krugman’s manic stare in his NYT online photo. Wouldn’t want to run into either of them in a dark alley.
This totally needs to get turned into a photoshop contest.
Nader has risen to the status of a demigod in the eyes of a youthful, anti-establishment, and sometimes-intelligent crowd. Nader knows that his ideas appeal to people who feel the world is unjust (including their own private world) and are looking for answers. In other words, Nader is selling the religion of an Omnipotent State. Interestingly, the majority of his disciples are
I don’t think that Democrats should be appalled. I doubt if this will turn out like 2000.
Nader will be around for a while and can say much more in the way of outrageous things than the Democratic candidate. A lot of press will follow these crazy attacks on Bush.
Eventually he will collect enough donations and possibly matching funds and then fold up his tent and drift off into the mist for a few more years.
Advantage Democrats.
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