Seen on the newswire:
Ralph Nader on Sunday announced a fresh bid for the White House, criticizing the top contenders as too close to big business and dismissing the possibility that his third-party candidacy could tip the election to Republicans.[...]
“You take that framework of people feeling locked out, shut out, marginalized, disrespected,” he said. “You go from Iraq, to Palestine/Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bungling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts.”
And naturally, a lot of Democrats are p*ssed.
One wonders if this will inspire Dems to exercise strategy through the remainder of the nomination process. It would seem that to minimize any spoiler effect (third time around, would there be all that much?), you’d want to nominate someone who is less prone to such criticism…or who can draw in enough moderates and moderate Republicans to offset any Nader-leakage.