Ralph Nader: Obama Will Face Primary Challenge In 2012

Politics Daily:

Calling the White House tax deal with Republicans the "last straw," Ralph Nader predicted that President Obama will face a primary challenger in 2012.

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Comments

[Andy17]

04:34 PM on 12/14/2010

I will vote for Nader or any other progressive willing to run against Obama.
The list of Obama policies and actions that go against every principle
I care about is getting way too long. If I vote for Obama again, then I
cannot act shocked when he sides with huge corporations over me,
or when he escalates corrput wars to appease the 9/11 fanatics,
or continues torturing people at Gitmo, or spies on Americans because
Patriot 1&2 says it's OK.

[FreeAmerican7]

09:58 AM on 12/15/2010

It is IRRELEVANT whether one votes Republican­ or Democrat or for the HONORABLE Ralph Nader since any THIRD Party Candidate will NOT get more than SINGLE-DIGIT Percentage of all votes.
The REALITY is :
They are all UNDERLINGS of the SILKQ (Special Interest Lobbyists Kings & Queens) .
Unless and until there is a BAN on SILKQ; there is NO hope but to vote for the
"Lesser of the TWO Evils" since NOT voting at all is WORSE than flipping a Penny!

[SolarPowerGuy]

09:18 PM on 12/13/2010

I see the usual tired arguments are being trotted out here about how Nader "stole" "Gore's" Presidency from him.

Every last Democrat needs to have their noses rubbed in the shame that eleven percent of registered Democrats defected from Gore and voted for BUSH in 2000. Republicans were MUCH more loyal to their man. Furthermore, the number of Democratic DEFECTORS, people whose votes went over to the "winner's" column, outnumbered ALL the Nader voters by a factor of two.

Every last Democrat needs to read the post-election analysis written by the DLC Chairman, Al From. He analyzed the exit polling data and concluded that, with Nader NOT running, "Bush actually won by a point." If there was anyone who had it out for progressives in 2000, it was Al From. And he DECLINED to lay blame at the feet of Nader voters. Read the memo yourself!

[Trueheart]

08:36 PM on 12/13/2010

Age and experience have their privileges.
You get to be 76 and if you think it is obvious that the President is selling you one thing and delivering another--you just call if for what it is: a "con."

[MossyOak]

08:53 PM on 12/13/2010

You don't have to be old to call what happened a con, but it takes some maturity to see it for what it is and admit you've been conned.

[Trueheart]

10:07 PM on 12/13/2010

You said that better than I.

[Gibbon2010]

07:37 PM on 12/13/2010

It is interesting how the people who always vote Democrat or Republican accuse others of being the problem. The problem is the voters who support a corrupt and broken two-party system.

[Chopin]

06:28 PM on 12/13/2010

Peggy111: "he's now bringing Clinton out to talk for him. Why?"

That's thought provoking question. My guess is he's consciously trying to project Clinton's aura of "comeback kid" in 1996 after he had lost Congress in midterm 1994. It's not that Obama is any less oratorically gifted. But after 2years of reneging on many key policies touted in his campaign agenda, oratorical flurries no longer cut it with millions of disillusioned supporters, especially the young who were fired up by inspiring campaign speeches + promises of "hope you can believe in".

My further guess is Clinton's "comeback kid" magic wouldn't rub off on Obama, because the severe times today are very much different, and long-term downward trends are much worse than Clinton's time, as Robert Reich so cogently pointed out in his article:--
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/post_1362_b_790614.html

The only real hope for a turnaround of American middleworkingclass fortunes and America's entrenched downward trends is for Obama the person to "reinvent" himself, change his personality and temperamental nature from a "pragmatic conciliator" into a "no holds barred in your face fighter" against a sea of outrageous fortunes about to descend on him from a newly energized radical right Republican majority Congress with more of the same in the Senate in 2012. Let people judge for themselves likelihood of this personal metamorphosis from "spineless silkworm" into radiant butterfly or stinging bee, as Mohammad Ali would fondly describe himself.

[BigPictureReg]

06:08 PM on 12/13/2010

Historical usefulness is where this guy has a proper place.

Unfortunately, current uselessness is where he chooses to reside.

[MrColdheart]

05:43 PM on 12/13/2010

The Media bringing up this guys opinion really gets me angry.

You guys might have forgotten but one of Ralph Naders concern with Obama during the past Presidential election was that he claimed Obama is fake and was only pretending to talk "White" to get the White vote.

Just because a Black man speaks proper English doesn't mean mean he's trying to be White.

Nader makes me angry to no end.

[ztck5356]

05:21 PM on 12/13/2010

Yeah, he'll probably have a challenger....him! Hasn't he run for president every election since Nixon?

[SolarPowerGuy]

08:21 PM on 12/13/2010

No, Nader had no interest in running for anything until the Green Party first attempted to draft him in 1996. And for the record, Nader agreed to run with the Green Party as an affiliate, but never as a member.

Any votes he received before that time, and there certainly were some, were write-in votes for a man who had never declared his candidacy.

[Calvin Lionel Nicholson]

03:13 PM on 12/30/2010

Actually, that's false - Nader ran as a write in during the mid 80's as well.

[RODERICK098]

05:06 PM on 12/13/2010

Mr. Nader is one of the reasons liberals are always in disarray. Too idealistic to the point where spme liberals would rather let the right be in power than support a liberal who has been forced to compromise. Many Eugene McCarthy supporters hated Robert Kennedy more than Nixon.Used to like Nader until he ran for President but it is very difficult to like him after enabling Bush to win. .

[Trueheart]

10:09 PM on 12/13/2010

He's not a politician. That's why his presidential bids never got off the runway.

[RGKahn]

05:01 PM on 12/13/2010

Ralph Nader is so yesterday. I could care less about what his opinion is about anything. His ego lost the Democrats the White House in 2000 and I have yet to forgive him for that. He was once a voice that had gravitas, no longer. He is a tired, beaten bitter old man yelling at the clouds. Go home, go away, do NOT come calling again.

[Wolfwoman]

04:54 PM on 12/13/2010

Imagine how Nader, if President, would constantly be bucked by the conservatives when he pushes for consumer protection programs. We need some consumer protection, but we need to keep it balanced with other legislative responsibilities.

[IonaTrailer]

04:10 PM on 12/13/2010

Shut the f*** up Ralph. You're the one who screwed up the election and gave us George W Bush.

[Clearing-Brush]

04:08 PM on 12/13/2010

Although I agree with Nader's points on Obama, especially the "I have no use for him" part, he was the "fly in the ointment" in the 2000 elections. GWB loves him for that one, but I can't.

[ChezMJ]

03:37 PM on 12/13/2010

Put Ralph Nader in the back of a gassed up Pinto & rear end it. Thanks for GWB.

[ScottnLaguna]

03:24 PM on 12/13/2010

Thanks to Nader, Gore lost and was so mad he created Global Warming. Thanks a lot Ralph.

[polidoc]

01:58 PM on 01/14/2011

And 300,000 Democrats voted for Bush instead of Gore in Florida, many more votes than Nader drew to the polls. Thanks Dems.