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I saw a brief news report last night that if Ralphie was elected pres. in 2000 he would of captured Bin Laden by bribing the people closest to him. He also would've required more funds for locks in airliner cockpit doors. Well, hind-sight is 20/20 comrade Nader. Imagine what he would do to our defense forces!?

The article posted is a bit dated but still relavent:



<i>The children who run the Green Party are all excited that Ralph Nader has agreed again to be their presidential candidate. This man is one of the biggest frauds on the public stage. In a February column, Marianne Means wrote, "One of the saddest sights in politics is a fading public figure who refuses to concede that his or her time has passed. The latest egoist to ignore reality is Ralph Nader, the aging consumer advocate whose crusades stalled and popularity sagged long ago."
Means pointed out that "Through a group called Global Trade Watch, he helped plan the demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization." Nader, of course, is famous for having attacked General Motors, but he has also attacked whole milk, colored toilet paper, flouridated water, nuclear energy, and the Elvis stamp. Dave Barry, the humorist, probably said it best. "Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes."

Reportedly, Nader, 66, intends to run "a real campaign" this time. In 1996, he allowed his name to be used by the Green Party in the national election. He was on the ballot in 22 states and received about 1% of the total vote. This time around, the Green Party wants to reach 5% so they can get their hands on federal matching funds.

In his book, "Citizen Nader", author Charles McCarry noted that Nader's image is built on the idea that he is somehow pure, not motivated by power, fame or money. The truth is that he is just another Washington lawyer who has built a huge organization, lobbies Congress, raising millions through direct mail and $1,000 a plate dinners. Reportedly, there is nothing democratic about the way he runs his multiple organizations. Of nineteen groups in his network, only a minor one is a membership organization that allows individuals to vote. Instead, the Nader elite who run his groups operate in strict secrecy and releases the absolute legal minimum of information. His exploitation of the workers in his various enterprises is widely documented. "How can we go out and try to save the world from people when we're grinding people to death all the time?" said John Esposito, an original staffer at Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law.

The Nader myth of ascetiscim is a fraud, too. There has always been some confusion regarding where Nader hangs his hat. A Feb 29th USA Today article says he lives in a "studio apartment", but other sources say he lives in a $100,000 home in a posh neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Of course, his brother purchased the house, so it's not in his name. That's his depending on how you define his. When the then-society columnist, Maxine Cheshire, asked him about the house, he knew every detail about it, talking about what a great tax break it was. "He talks about that real estate investment the way some men talk about sex," wrote Cheshire.

This is a man who has claimed to live on $5,000 or $25,000 a year, despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees he's earned for years. Surprise, surprise, it turns out, he's saved his pennies over the years and now has a $3.6 million investment in high tech stocks.

If you love government regulation, you can thank Nader for bringing about the creation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. They provide employment for a legion of bureaucrats and add millions to the cost of automobiles and countless products that were doubtlessly engineered for the sole purpose of killing people.

He is the last person for whom you would want to vote; a corporation-hating, so-called consumer advocate who is heavily invested in some of the leading edge corporations in the nation, a secretive authoritarian living a double life. Fortunately, the Green Party is a quarreling bunch of children and, after the national elections are over, the media may decide to let Nader fade quietly into retirement. One thing's for sure, he's got enough money to live very comfortably.


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Edited by - Tritonal on Aug 12 2003 12:03 PM