Newly minted punchline of a presidential candidate Ralph Nader wasn’t more than a few minutes into his news conferenceThursday when he took a swipe at the “ridiculing” Washington press corps. He said the media “display unwittingly a political bigotry against small parties.”
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Not necessarily, Ralph. Just against you and your quadrennial vanity projects. Consider the ammunition he provides, via a few of his choice lines yesterday:
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Nader had assembled the “ridiculing” hordes to introduce them to his running mate, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez. “I found him to be unwavering in his principles and committed to his politics with clear eloquence and humane logic,” Nader said.
And Gonzalez, also a former mayoral candidate, also seems to share Nader’s famous moral conceit. At one point he said his ability to work across the aisle is a “testament to my integrity.”
As for their chances in the fall, Gonzalez said, “I have no illusions about what’s happening here today … but I’ve never entered a political race that I didn’t think could be won.”
But Nader, who won 2.74 percent of the popular vote in 2000, and 0.38 percent in 2004, has learned one thing: “There’s nothing we can do to force anybody to vote for us.”/>
