Apparently, old boy Nader doesn’t know when to say when.
On Meet The Press this morning, Nader announced he would again run for the Presidency, despite damning evidence that his 2000 campaign split the Democratic vote and handed victory to Bush in the highly contested Florida election.
When the recount was halted, Bush won Florida by 537 votes. Nader received nearly 3 million. Yet with all the lucidity of an ostrich with a sand-ensconced cerebellum, Nader refused to admit the obvious, passing the buck to then Secretary of State Katherine Bush.
In the most galling example of self-indulgence, Nader claimed he drew more votes from the GOP than he did from the Democrats. Using voodoo statistics as his post-hoc rationalization would be comic if the stakes weren’t so dear this time around.
Cloak and dagger politics aside, Nader is once again in prime position as a loose cannon and a hopelessly defunct politician. Expanding on his candidacy announcement, Nader dusted off the same old saws from 2000 — repealing the Taft-Hartley Act (to give labor unions free rein) and the blithe expansion of Medicare as a knee-jerk solution to national healthcare. Both show the same lack of basic political awareness that lead Nader to his ineffectual and reckless candidacy in the first place.
Time to fire up the printing presses, gentlemen.
Ralph, don’t run.
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