Posted on 02/24/2008 12:31:57 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
If Ralph Nader will always have a place in Republicans' hearts for his yeoman work in Florida in 2000, Democrats and the MSM don't look so kindly nowadays on the hard-left crusader. Consider this comment from CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider [file photo] on this morning's Late Edition, commenting on Nader's announcement on today's Meet the Press that he was again running for president.
JOHN KING: Is there a niche for Ralph Nader that could actually have an impact on the race?
BILL SCHNEIDER: It's a disappearing niche. In 2000 when he ran, he got about 2.8 million votes. In 2004, he got fewer than half a million votes. I imagine anyone left who's going to vote for Ralph Nader are probably people who wouldn't vote if Ralph Nader weren't running. They're the real die-hard. He really has gone over the past eight years, back in 1996 as a green candidate. He's gone from being a revered, national icon to something of a public nuisance.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
MSM miffed at Nader ping to Today show list.
In Schneider’s mind: Public = Democrats
CNN is a Public Nuisance.
Even though there has been speculation that Schneider is a Republican (in the Chafee/ Hagel sense of the word), Schneider is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat party.
Schneider’s [and CNN’s] biggest nuisance are Conservatives.
Poor man needs help with his math.
Unsafe at any speed?
In fairness I wasn’t able to save the videotape, and had to work off the transcript, which was a bit garbled, so the mistake might not be Schneider’s.
I’m sure CNN has no problem with Nader when he’s going after some “evil corporation” for something or other.
Clinton News Network’s Schneider is a old a-hole that has nothing useful to report that is either fair or balanced!!!
Schneidert actually should be happy because Nader will make Obama look a little more centrist.
Each of the two candidates, Nader and Barak, is a communist....they only differ on some issues, but the KarlMarxspeil is innate in both of them.
Some think the reincarnation-of-the-undead, Nader, will pull Obama more to the left. Doubtful. Nader will not get that many votes spread out nationwide to be of concern to the Illinois wunderkind.....and anyhow, Obama can't move too much more to the left openly without getting on too dangerous ground.
He will stay left of Hillary enough to satisfy his backers, donors and his ignorant fainting hordes during the primaries.
He'll then move a little to the right during the one-on-one campaign against McCain.
In the general he'll play to the sheeple masses by taking a fake postion that Nader is on his left, McCain is on his far right.....and he's in the feel-good middle. Wait and see!
So, Nader's appearance will not be much more than a week's tabloid orgy on TV and a blip on the radar screen after that. He'll have little to no effect on the election end-game except as being a dumbkopf that Obama can play off at will.
Schneidert will pump on Nader for a while, then the CNN komrade will turn his attention back to the evil Bush, chess and other tortures at Gitmo, and the Great Depression our country is in right now.
Nader will be used by the media when needed.
Leni
Public joke is more like it. He got 463,000 votes in 2004, about one sixth what he got in 2000. If he gets 60,000 votes this time around I’ll be surprised.
The only people worried about Nader’s vote-splitting ability are the DEMOCRATS. Why does that make Nader a “nuisance”, Mr. Schneider?
Does he call Huckabee a “nuisance” too?
Ralph Ralph Ralph! Go, Ralph!
Schnieder a Republican? Thats news to me. He is a democrat fraud, through and through.
Nader is now in the race? Oh, boy! Do I have enough popcorn on hand for that? lol
Democrat? Likely.
Gasbag? Definitely
I love the fact that Nader is running...:)
Nuisance? Maybe three out of four years. But in election years, he’s a national treasure. He’s the right’s answer to Ross Perot in national elections.
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