Nader's Advice To Kerry

[DaveSZ]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13265-2004May9.html


Nader's Advice To Kerry

By William Raspberry
Monday, May 10, 2004; Page A25


Ralph Nader, according to many who say they used to admire him, has become the self-centered star whose press clippings have gone to his head, the dog in the manger, the skunk at the Democratic garden party.

After all, the man whose name comes to mind at the mention of the phrase "consumer advocate" is also the man who almost certainly helped elect President Bush -- by siphoning away a few thousand Florida votes that otherwise would have gone to Al Gore.

And now he's running for president again!

Well, the advice here is that the Democrats -- very much including presumptive nominee John Kerry -- would do well to pause in their brick-throwing long enough to listen. Because what Nader is offering, he genuinely believes, is a road map to a Kerry victory.

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[DaveSZ]

1. Wow

Nader's ideas actually sound great to me.

:)

Sadly Kerry has been taking the LieberKerry route, and that only alienates his base.

[corporatewhore]

2. My Advice to kerry: stop saying "me too" after bush says something

Me Too

[drfemoe]

3. That has been noted ..

but I also have noticed that whoosh* has adopted (stolen) some of Kerry's talking points.

[aquart]

4. The day I listen to that hypocritical self-absorbed son of a bitch...

He can have the best ideas in the world, but every one of them is poisoned.

But you wanna vote for him, you do it. You do it.

And everything that happens next is yours.

May you never sleep.

[Zynx]

5. I agree completely.

I won't listen to the looney left tell us how to win elections when they have never won one.

[mrgorth]

6. Nader may be a tool

but this is all good stuff. More, it may be Nader's "terms for surrender". In other words, Kerry gets behind some of this and Nader drops out saying "the fate of the world depends on Kerry winning". Works for me.

[spooky3]

7. Edwards proposed nearly every one of these ideas more than a year ago.

which I just emailed WR to tell him.

[cosmik debris]

8. Advice to Nader

If you want to give advice on winning elections, perhaps you should test that advice first to see if it works.

Ooops, he did test it. It failed.

Mr. Nader may be brilliant, but he seems to have missed many of the nuances of politics. If he does not change his strategy, his results will not change either.