Word: nader
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Like leap years and the Summer Olympics, Ralph Nader’s presidential bids appear quadrennially with unfailing reliability. In every presidential election since 1992, Nader has thrown his hat into the ring, hoping his long-shot candidacy will reshape the American political landscape. Last Sunday, we found out that 2008 will be no exception, as that esteemed elder statesman of presidential politics (at 74 years of age he makes John McCain look youthful) announced that he would enter the fray once more...
...Nader has his reasons for making another try at Pennsylvania Avenue—he thinks many significant issues like military spending, labor reform, and “cracking down on corporate crime” have been largely ignored in mainstream political dialogue—but one almost feels as if he’s mainly running because he can. In an interview with The New York Times following his announcement, Nader claimed, “If there was no other reason to run—other than the civil liberties, civil rights issue of ballot access—it?...
Perhaps it’s difficult to break a habit after 16 years of perennial candidacy, but if Nader truly cares about the future of “ballot access” and third-party presidential bids, he might do well to sit this...
...Ralph Nader has become the great tragicomic figure of American politics: tragic because he may have indirectly delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush, who has worked tirelessly to oppose virtually everything Nader spent his life promoting, and comic because every four years, he seems to forget what happened last time and trot back out, blissfully unaware of the impacts (or lack thereof) of his previous attempts. And this image, in turn, has become the face of third party candidacies in America. Every time he runs, Nader further assures the voting public that independent candidates are benign, irrelevant eccentrics...
TIME: Why now? NADER:The signature-gathering season starts first, actually, in Texas in March 5th. In Texas they have a law that if you vote in a Texas primary you cannot sign anybody's petition to run for office. And then it's followed by Arizona, where you can't have anybody from any other state help you run for office because there's a requirement that you have to be a resident of Arizona to collect petitions to run for national office. There should be, by the way, one federal standard to petition to run for federal office...