Sunday, February 22, 2004
It's official - Nader can't take it:
Leave it to Ralph to conflate criticism with censorship. Actually telling Democrats that they're not allowed to question the purpose of his candidacy comes closer to censorship, since no Democrat is telling him he can't speak out. Of course, he may not understand why Democrats are upset that Bush was elected.
If he runs - and at this point, my reading of his ego says that he probably will - expect this to get ugly. He is going to have some ugly, ugly rallies. The Democratic base is a lot more fired up this time around and doesn't have patience for another display of Ralph's purist pageantry. He'll be running a weaker candidacy without the Greens, so it'll be ironic that he's going to draw more ire this time. Ironic in a savory way, anyway.
It's a marvelous demonstration by liberals, if you will, of censorship,' he recently told National Public Radio. 'Running for political office is every American's right. Running for political office means free speech exercise, it means exercising the right of petition, the right of assembly. And so when they say, 'Do not run,' they're not just challenging and rebutting -- they're crossing that line into censorship.
Leave it to Ralph to conflate criticism with censorship. Actually telling Democrats that they're not allowed to question the purpose of his candidacy comes closer to censorship, since no Democrat is telling him he can't speak out. Of course, he may not understand why Democrats are upset that Bush was elected.
If he runs - and at this point, my reading of his ego says that he probably will - expect this to get ugly. He is going to have some ugly, ugly rallies. The Democratic base is a lot more fired up this time around and doesn't have patience for another display of Ralph's purist pageantry. He'll be running a weaker candidacy without the Greens, so it'll be ironic that he's going to draw more ire this time. Ironic in a savory way, anyway.
