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Nader Expected to Launch New Bid for the White House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0214-05.htm

by Maria Recio

 
WASHINGTON - Oops, Ralph Nader's doing it again.

Almost exactly four years after he announced he would run for president, the former Green Party candidate is poised to declare that he's running again this year, this time as an independent.

Despite a vigorous effort on the part of the left to keep Nader from running and despite his insistence that he's still mulling over his decision, friends, associates and insiders say he's determined to run again.

"I think there's very little doubt," said Micah Sifry, the author of a book on third-party politics and a longtime Nader watcher. "I think he's going to run."

Nader has twice delayed saying whether he would be a candidate, but with the anniversary of his Feb. 21, 2000, announcement coming up, insiders expect the latest declaration next week.


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if it means bush re-election, so be it

I'd rather get an open primary in 2008 and a chance to change the party's course than sit through 8 years of corporate-globalist triangulation that faces little resistance from the left out of fear of criticizing 'our guy'

clinton took this country to the right further than reagan could have possibly dreamed. when a so-called 'democrat' proposes this crap, they don't face the resistance from the left that occurs when a republican does it. at least under reagan-bush people were alert enough that they couldn't shove 'free trade' down our throats.

and kerry voted for the war. the 'i was tricked by the president' excuse doesn't fly with me. if everyone here and the millions who protested the war could see through bush, why couldn't kerry when we really needed him?