Why, Ralphie, Why?



It just doesn't make sense. He should be able to see what has happened to the country under Bush. Also, the Democratic candidates (Kerry and Edwards) are both much farther to the left than Al Gore was at this point. Why would he risk splitting the left-wing vote again?

Yahoo! News - Nader Announces Another White House Run in 2004: "Nader Announces Another White House Run in 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ralph Nader (news - web sites), whose third-party White House bid in 2000 was blamed by some Democrats for helping elect President Bush (news - web sites), said on Sunday he will try again this year as an independent.

Ignoring the pleas of Democrats to stay out of the race, the veteran consumer advocate said he wanted to challenge the stranglehold on the political process of the two main parties and fight their addiction to corporate interests.

'Washington is corporate-occupied territory, and the two parties are ferociously competing to see who is going to go to the White House and take orders from their corporate paymasters,' Nader said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'

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