Apparently both Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney will be participating in today’s the Oct. 23 Third Party Debate (7 pm, broadcast by C-SPAN). Last week they appeared on Democracy Now, where hosts Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez gave them the opportunity to respond to some of the same questions that McBama was asked at the Hofstra debate last week.
What can I say, except these guys seem to be closer on the issues than McBama is. Maybe we should start calling them “McNader.” Not only do they seem to agree on almost everything, they seem to agree with the American majority about everything, too.
Nader even made a pitch for contributions to McKinney’s campaign, and the Green Party. And the support is not just one way. When I saw McKinney speak in Miami this past summer, I asked her to name some people she would consider nominating to the Supreme Court, and she mentioned Ralph Nader as one of her top choices. [BTW if Democrats feel electorally threatened by Nader, shouldn't they appoint him to the Court so he stops running for President?]
Given their virtual indistinguishability on the issues, I can only imagine the negative campaign ads that they would have to rely on to distinguish themselves.
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This post was written by Uri on October 19, 2008
At 74, Nader is the age that many Supreme Court Justices look to retire (i.e. Ginsburg, Breyer).
That’s true. Who would you nominate? Maybe that’s a future discussion question.
Its strange to think of their debate and wonder what might be. Very perspective altering.
I think Democrats are just tired of seeing the “yay fascim” party win over the “yay status quo” party. I am too.
Yes we should nominate someone young enough to counter Roberts
I’ll declare right here, before an audience of billions, that I would accept a nomination to the Supreme Court. At thirty-three and in excellent health, I will outlast Roberts by several decades. I believe that my judicial philosophy of using your common sense and promoting justice will make for easy sailing through a Senate that’s sick of hearing about originalism, textualism, active liberty and other pathetically inadequate judicial approaches.
As soon as you get your degree consider yourself nominated!