Nader actually said that on Sunday, according to Raw Story. He also called an elderly white woman a “political bigot.” A few months ago he said Obama was trying to “talk white.”

Nader has a consistent record of - and I’ll be charitable here - being tone deaf about race. Now he appears to be morphing into a cranky old man.

Ralphie boy, it’s time for you to retire. Before you completely destroy your legacy.

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Nader got 0.3% of the vote in 2004, just three-tenths of one percent.He will almost certainly do even more dismally this year.

Obama on Nader

“Ralph Nader’s view is, unless it’s Ralph Nader, then you’re not tough enough on any of these issues,” he said. “He thought there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush. I think eight years later, people realize Ralph doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

He added, “Ralph Nader deserved enormous credit for the work he did as consumer advocate.” But, he concluded, “His function as perennial presidential candidate is not helping put food on table.”

Note how Obama skewered Nader without whining about Nader stealing votes from Democrats. And yeah, as it turned out, there was and is an immense difference between Al Gore and George Bush…

Even Tom Tomorrow (This Modern World), a former Nader supporter like myself, sees a Nader run as pointless.

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Peter Camejo, Nader’s running mate in 2004, said he won’t reveal Nader’s plans because he doesn’t want to upstage the announcement [when Nader appears on Meet The Press tomorrow]. But he said Nader’s overall philosophy on elections has not changed.

Sure sounds Nader will run. But whether he runs an independent or a Green, the Democrats have nothing to worry about. I’d be surprised if Nader could muster anywhere near even 1% of the vote (and his run would be embarrassing to him and a death knell to the Green Party he he gets their nomination.)

But this Message to Ralph Nader from Anonymous is s hoot anyway.

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The results were split between Nader and McKinney. But Lordy, the numbers of Green voters is getting minuscule, a trend that needs to be reversed quickly if the party is to remain viable.

California
Registered voters: 15,712,753
Registered Greens: 127,042 (0.81% of registered voters)
Total Green votes: 27,511 (about 20% voted)

Arkansas
Open primary system. Voters can vote for any candidate.
Registered voters: 1,570,961
Total votes cast: 510,850
Total Green votes: 637

According to the secretary of state’s office earlier this month, the Green Party has six registered voters in Arkansas.

Ouch.

Illinois
Total votes cast: About 2.8 million
Total Green votes: 2,597

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Ralph Nader and former House member Cynthia McKinney were on the ballot yesterday in California for both the Green Party and the Peace and Freedom Party.

Nader won convincingly on both, yet it’s not a given he wants the nomination. To my mind, McKinney would be a much stronger candidate and would bring badly needed new members into the GP. Nader has done a huge amount of progressive work in the past 45 years but, hey Ralph, take your laurels and rest on them. You deserve it.

Green Party
Nader 61%
McKinney 25%
total ballots cast: about 27,800

Peace and Freedom
Nader 40%
McKinney 21%
Gloria La Riva 20% (She is also running for president on the Party for Socialism and  Liberation, a non-ballot status party.)
total ballots cast: about 5,300

The ‘total ballots cast’ shows, unfortunately, that the two parties have a tiny presence. The Green Party of California has about half of the total Greens registered in the entire country. P&F has ballot status only in California, the GP in about 24 states.

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Sun. Jan. 13, 2 PM
Herbst Theater at Veterans Memorial Bldg
401 Van Ness, S.F. CA

Candidates: Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Jared Ball, Kent Mesplay

Moderated by: Cindy Sheehan, Ross Mirkarimi, Matt Gonzalez

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