Nader and the Reform Party-Desperate and Bizarre

[liveoaktx]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42629-2004Aug28.html

Today, Nader formally accepted the nomination of the Reform party, showing he's so pathetic to get on the ballot he'll accept anybody. When I read the article, I remembered this is Ross Perot's old party, which nominated, last time, Pat Buchanan. But what's even more pathetic is this from the article...

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A wealthy perennial candidate, O'Hara has run unsuccessfully for various offices as a Democrat, Republican, Reform Party member and Independent. He once ran for governor against his father. During a 2002 campaign, O'Hara argued for the dissolution of the FBI, the CIA and the U.S. Department of Education to the Hattiesburg American newspaper. He also assisted with the legal defense of Sam Bowers, a former Ku Klux Klan leader convicted in 1998 of ordering the murder a civil rights worker in the 1960s.
In an interview in which he stressed that he was speaking for himself and not his party, O'Hara, who is running for Congress this year, said he favors a constitutional amendment banning abortion, and that "anyone who violates it should get the death penalty."

"The party is basically now a vehicle for people on the fringe like O'Hara, and I guess, Nader, to pursue their personal ambitions," said L. Sandy Maisel, a professor at Maine's Colby College who studies third parties.

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Sheesh, this just shows how arrogant Nader is-willing to take money from Republicans and align himself with extremists.

[w13rd0]

1. Title should read...

...Nader and the Reform party: the desperate union of the bizarre and the egomaniacal...

[AndyTiedye]

2. In What States Does This Get Him On The Ballot?

This is just a way to get on the ballot in more swing states.

He actually seems to be pulling votes from Boosh now at least as
much as Kerry in some recent polls, but this is really about
giving them a plausible place to Diebold away Dem votes in leftie
areas.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Exactly my concern to.......Ralph adds a cloaking layer of ambiguity.

He is no friend of progessives....