Nader throws out a name:

[ProSense]

Ralph Nader Wants Mike Bloomberg to Run for President

By Hunter Walker

Former Green Party candidate Ralph Nader wants Mike Bloomberg to jump into this year’s Presidential race, because he believes New York City’s billionaire Mayor is the ideal person to take on “the establishment” and “the corporate state.”

Mr. Nader made his comments about the Mayor in a new video posted on Politico today. His call to draft Mayor Bloomberg isn’t so much an endorsement as it is a desire to see a third party candidate emerge in this year’s race.

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So why does Mr. Nader think Mayor Bloomberg is the right person to take on the corporate establishment? Well, basically because Mayor Bloomberg runs a major media corporation and has lots of money:

“In area after area, you know, whether it’s consumer fairness, single payer health insurance, full medicare for all, for example, cracking down on corporate crime, a really new kind of tax system, the two parties are too hooked into the establishment, the corporate state that they can’t change. And so, if you ever put that agenda out in front of people it would be spectacular, especially if the candidate had enough money to reach those people. … Let’s say a Bloomberg runs, it would be a three way race in every sense of the term, because he could write a check for $500 million.”

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[pnwmom]

1. Yup, he's trying to throw the election to a Rethug, once again.

He always gets more donations to his organization when the Rethugs are in power.

[Mimosa]

Crazy.

Bloomberg is also a micromanager excessively concerned about what people choose to eat.

[On the Road]

24. Do You Mean the Ban on Trans Fat in Restaurants?

No one chooses to eat trans fat.

[Enrique]

2. i question his logic

:shrug:

[grantcart]

13. I question his sanity

Friends like Nader . . .

[jefferson_dem]

3. Just go away, Ralph.

Before you embarrass yourself even more.

[So Shall Us]

36. Please!

Immediately!

[WI_DEM]

4. And I'm throwing it back

Goodbye, Ralph.

[Pirate Smile]

5. WTF

:wtf: He's senile.

[defendandprotect]

6. Moving in the wrong direction, Ralph -- We need to challenge the other side . . . .

of the Citizens' United coin -- i.e., the candidates and elected members of

Congress -- and Presidents -- who are SELLING themselves and our government to

corporate/elite fascists!


Think also OCCUPY Wall Street -- 99% -- movement is making clear that the

"2-party-duopoly" is pretty much finished ----


We need to be asking our candidates and president and members of Congress every day ---

"WHO DID YOU SELL YOURSELF TO TODAY?"

[Amonester]

8. Yep. Should be priority #1.

Also should be pretty clear to everyone paying attention for the last 31 years...

[sandyshoes17]

9. "who did you sell yourself to today?"

Love that!!

[SidDithers]

7. Fuck Ralph Nader...nt

Sid

[flpoljunkie]

10. Nader's really lost if if he thinks Bloomberg will take on Wall Street and the corporate state!

:rofl: indeed!

[FrenchieCat]

11. Oh My!

"Let’s say a Bloomberg runs, it would be a three way race in every sense of the term, because he could write a check for $500 million"” - Ralph Nader

Very profound!

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. It has to be clear to even the most devoted Naderite that this guy is just a tool...

for the GOP and their corporate enablers. He's been very effective at using well meaning liberals to work against their own interests. And I'll bet he's made a pretty penny in the process. ;)

[Number23]

26. You would think that, huh?

It has to be clear to even the most devoted Naderite that this guy is just a tool.

And yet... :eyes:

[mopinko]

31. alzheimers

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. Talk about the "kiss of death". Sorry Mayor Bloomberg.

:rofl:

[OHdem10]

14. Look , I cannot remember the name or title of their group, but

there is a group out there supposedly working
with Independents. Anyway they are exploring
the possibility of running a candidate. Every
now and then they pop up on some program. I
definitely remember Mark McKinnon is a member
and he sometimes is the guest to discuss the
group's progress. Anyway some people have guessed
Bloomberg might be considered as their candidate.
This Group has both Democrats and Republicans.

Mark McKinnon is also a member of the NO Name
Group. I think these are two different groups
but some of their members overlap.

I am throwing this out there. Do not be surprised
if we end up with three candidates.

[Zen Democrat]

15. Poor Ralph must be experiencing some dementia. Bloomberg??? Good Lord!

[the other one]

17. To be fair, Bloomberg will steal GOP votes

moreso than Democratic votes.

I don't blame Nader for 2000, but this does puzzle me.

[DevonRex]

18. Fuck Nader. Nt

[jenmito]

19. Bloomberg isn't a Dem. How could he primary Obama?

[maddezmom]

21. he isn't now or ever has been interested in a primary for Obama, but having a 3rd party

challenger imo. He needs to go away for good, imo.

[jenmito]

23. Oops-he just wants Bloomberg to run 3rd Party-to defeat Obama...

Of course he just wants Obama to lose. He's helping the Repubs. again. I wonder how much money Nader is getting from his RW buddies...

[GoCubsGo]

30. I don't see how that would help the repubs.

It just gives those who don't like anyone from the current GOP crop another option. If Bloomberg ran, he'd suck more repugs away than he would Democrats, IMHO.

[AtomicKitten]

20. Bloomberg defended banks against OccupyWallStreet.

here ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yueyFs4GoJ4

Nader is a blatant hypocrite.

[Whisp]

22. Nader really has gone bonkers...

I usually stay out of Nader bashing threads but it truly looks like he is mentally incompetent to give any advices about politics, At All.

Unsafe At Any Screed.

[ProSense]

25. Good one:

Steve Benen

* NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) doesn’t want any tax increases on the wealthy and has been an opponent of the Occupy Wall Street movement. So naturally, Ralph Nader, a few weeks after praising Sarah Palin’s intelligence, is advocating a Bloomberg presidential campaign. I don’t think it’s my imagination that Nader is getting crazier.

I almost forgot about the Palin praise:

“I think she’s a lot smarter than most people credit her,” says Nader. “Judging by her comments, she is squarely in the camp of conservative populism, opposed to corporatism and its corporate state.”

:rofl:

[shellgame26]

27. Fuck Ralph Nader

and fuck anyone else who is still clueless enough to fall for his shit!

[Yavin4]

28. "New York City’s billionaire Mayor is the ideal person to take on “the establishment” ????`

Really? Ralph needs to come to NYC and see how Mayor Mike has made it a paradise for the rich.

Epic fail there Ralph. Epic fail.

[TwilightGardener]

29. Ouch. LOL.

[mopinko]

32. ralph nadar has alzheimers.

[dionysus]

33. ralph has had one stroke too many.

:rofl:

[libinnyandia]

34. Nader, Nader, Nader

I have a theory: Ralph wants Bloomie to run because if Bloomie were to cost the Democrats the 2012 election, maybe people would forget that Ralph made possoble 8 years of Bush and Cheney. As for Ralph's mental state, he was out of his mind long ago. I never did find out what Nader hoped to accomplish by working to defeat Al Gore.

[Ikonoklast]

35. Nader is yet once again supporting a Republican.

This is nothing new for him, but his idiot supporters will love it.

[LWolf]

37. So what? nt

[Bobbie Jo]

38. Truth to Power!

:rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

39. To: Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

From: Ralph Nader.

Dear Mike;

Thanks for the donation, the check just cleared.

Love Ya!


Your pal,

Ralph





P.S. Next time, make it in cash, please.

[backscatter712]

40. If Nader had any brains at all, he'd be getting behind OWS instead of pimping its enemy. n/t