Monday, June 28, 2004
Nader is reportedly sulking about his snub by the Greens. All you have to do is read between the lines of the Washington Post's reporting:
Good grief. If they don't endorse you it can only be because they're conspiring against you. Is Nader incapable of considering the possibility that the Green Party is tired of being used by him every four years? That it's demeaning for them to be at the beck and call of someone who has not deigned to join them formally? Contrary to Nader's assertion that the Greens would benefit financially from being associated with him, lining up with the rump Reform Party (now abandoned by Ross Perot), and Nader's own Populist Party would mark the Greens as pathetic followers - eager for star power and willing to prostrate themselves for it.
Nader also attempted to play Cassandra, direly forecasting that the Green Party would:
Uh gee, doesn't he mean both the Democratic and Republican parties? He has been saying that he'll draw votes equally from both. I guess the truth comes out if you fluster him enough.
- [Nader] described the party as "strange," called the party's national nominating convention "a cabal" and predicted who the big loser in its decision not to endorse him would be.
Good grief. If they don't endorse you it can only be because they're conspiring against you. Is Nader incapable of considering the possibility that the Green Party is tired of being used by him every four years? That it's demeaning for them to be at the beck and call of someone who has not deigned to join them formally? Contrary to Nader's assertion that the Greens would benefit financially from being associated with him, lining up with the rump Reform Party (now abandoned by Ross Perot), and Nader's own Populist Party would mark the Greens as pathetic followers - eager for star power and willing to prostrate themselves for it.
Nader also attempted to play Cassandra, direly forecasting that the Green Party would:
- "shrink in its dimension" and "has jettisoned [itself] out of any influence on the Democratic Party."
Uh gee, doesn't he mean both the Democratic and Republican parties? He has been saying that he'll draw votes equally from both. I guess the truth comes out if you fluster him enough.
