Ralph Nader's Plan to Primary Obama Hits a Granite Wall - won't make dealine in NH.

[jefferson_dem]

:applause:

Ralph Nader's Plan to Primary Obama Hits a Granite Wall
By David Weigel
| Posted Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at 3:11 PM ET

Six weeks ago, word got out about a progressive project that could have Ralph Nader playing a familiar role: Electoral scold. He was the best-known member of a coalition to recruit five progressive candidates to run, as Democrats, against Barack Obama. At 4:30 p.m. today, the coalition was going to face its first deadline: qualifying to enter the New Hampshire primary.

Nader's group won't make the deadline.

" Bill Gardner switched the days on us," Nader says. "He threatened to change the primary date after Nevada moved up its caucuses, and in the process, he moved up the filing deadline. So he's pulled the rug out from under us -- you think it's late November, and all of a sudden it's October 28."

Nader is annoyed, and understandably so. "You ought to have one federal standard for every state's elections," he says. "Do you know why he moved the filing date, just because the primary moved?" (Actually I don't know.) "We were pulling something together quite nicely, but New Hampshire -- that's the big one, isn't it? Between the size of the state and the fact that the press is up there, it was a good place to make this statement."

Perhaps it wasn't meant to be. The project was announced at a particularly low ebb of progressive enthusiasm. Days later, the Occupy Wall Street really took off. Two prominent members of the primary challenge coalition, Cornel West and Chris Hedges (both professors at Princeton), have pretty much thrown themselves into Occupy, one sign that the progressive scene is more interested in grassroots protest than in an immediate challenge to Obama.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/10/28/ralph_nader_s_plan_to_primary_obama_hits_a_granite_wall.html

[WI_DEM]

1. excuses excuses, Ralphie

but Obama did get an opponent in NH anyway, Darcy Richardson of Florida.

[stevenleser]

49. Darcy is among the dozen or so no-names that always run in the NH primary. That is not an 'opponent'

it is a weird guy who wanted to spend $1000 to see his name on a ballot for President.

[SidDithers]

2. "We were pulling something together quite nicely"...

:rofl:

How hard is it to file papers, Ralph?

Sid

[brooklynite]

41. Here are the burdensome requirements for filing in New Hampshire...

How to File: The filing period will be between the first Monday in November and the third Friday in November or during such other time period as the secretary of state shall announce. A declaration of candidacy must be filed in the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office along with a filing fee of $1,000.

...snip...

Filing by Petition if Indigent: Any person otherwise qualified to run for president, who is unable to pay the $1,000 filing fee by reason of indigence may, after proving such indigence, have his/her name placed on the presidential primary ballot by filing with the secretary of state 10 primary petitions from each county of the state signed by registered voters of the party, who are domiciled in New Hampshire, together with one written assent to candidacy pursuant to RSA 655:25.

[dionysus]

45. now Sid, it's not nice to make fun of a senile old.... vaht?...

[sharp_stick]

3. Funny how it's always someone

else's fault when Nader fucks something up.

[trumad]

4. Fuck Nader

[TheWraith]

5. Kicked, recommended, and as always, FUCK RALPH NADER.

What a sniveling little shit that man is, trying to blame Gardner for the fact that his little "primary challenge" has been delusional from the start. It's not like the deadline was a secret; it's been public knowledge for months.

[MilesColtrane]

6. For such a visionary iconoclastic firebrand he seems to assume that others...

are going to take care of all the little "trivial" details he overlooks.

[Ikonoklast]

7. FUCK RALPH NADER.

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[BklnDem75]

8. How come we knew the deadline and not poor Ralph?

Shouldn't he be more in front of these things than a political forum?

[Whisp]

21. tee hee

poor ralphy.

why does he insist on wearing the clown shoes?
and the clown followers, the ones who really really beeeeleeeeeeved... wonder where they are now?

:rofl:

[Sheepshank]

23. He needs to read DU a little more often lol

OTOH, from DU he may also have been mislead into thinking he had a flying pigs chance.

[JoePhilly]

31. My first thought as well

[slay]

9. That's too bad. Pro-corporate Obama definitely needs a challenger

to make him explain all his pro-corporate positions. I don't see how any decent person can clap about the rules being changed to keep someone from challenging Obama.

[SidDithers]

12. Rules being changed!...

:rofl:

Sid

[jefferson_dem]

14. Poor Ralph...

Always the victim. :nopity:

If he had any dignity left, I would encourage him to save it.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Obama already has a challenger...

It will be one of the sleazy teabagging republicans. You might not like it, but those are your choices. Pick one.

[frylock]

20. there are other choices

[MjolnirTime]

25. no other real choices.

[frylock]

27. it's not like brand a or brand b are real choices either

[CakeGrrl]

48. Whether you think they're "real" or not, someone will be in the White House

making VERY real decisions.

And some of us believe there IS a very real difference between the "brands" even if others do not.

[Tarheel_Dem]

16. You're funny.

:rofl:

[great white snark]

18. What did you do to facilitate a primary challenge?

I mean other than spend your time on a forum anonymously repeating the same old stale talking points?

[Name removed]

19. Deleted message

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[Number23]

26. Your sig pic is absolutely hilarious

Love. It.

[Champion Jack]

10. wouldn't the GOP pay his fees this time?--- FUCK RALPH NADER.

[FrenchieCat]

11. Shouldn't he had looked into this, if he was serious?

Didn't some poster come here like 2 weeks ago to let us know of the deadline?
How can someone think they could run the country,
when they can't to something basic like this? :shrug:

[Tarheel_Dem]

15. A royal FU by Ralphie. Good thing he, nor any of his sycophants, willl ever be president.

:kick:

[apocalypsehow]

17. Nader is an ass. n/t.

[LiberalFighter]

22. How much funding does he get from the Koch brothers?

[Tarheel_Dem]

24. I think that may have been the problem. They've busted the budget over at NorquistDogLake.

I think even they know that Ralph's a joke. This endeavour was doomed from the start, because you're not going to get enough folks on the left who are willing to cast their lot with the likes of Ralph Nader & Cornel "I didn't get an engraved invitation to the inauguration, but my valet did" West's "organization".
:hi:

[Rowdyboy]

28. Ralph has become a caricature, a sad, pathetic joke ...and he doesn't get it....His 15 minutes is up

Time to rest on his laurels-his major achievements, like electing George Bush.

[libinnyandia]

32. Nader needs to run

Nader needs to run so that Michael Moore and people like him have a reason for living.

[Downtown Hound]

34. Moore turned his back on Nader years ago.

But if it makes you feel better, go ahead and indulge in your smug delusions.

[libinnyandia]

38. Nader and Moore

I don't have any smug illusions. To tell you the truth Moore and Nader lost all relevance a long time ago. Their working together in 2000 did enough damage. Most people don't take Moore seriously any more nor do they take Nader seriously.

[Downtown Hound]

39. Lots of people still take Moore seriously.

And you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

[libinnyandia]

40. Moore

Hopefully not enough to affect the election next year.

[Name removed]

29. Deleted message

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[Tarheel_Dem]

30. More power to you. CA will vote for the current POTUS. What's that saying....?

"wish in one hand, and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first"? That's how I feel about people, who may or may not be Democrats, advocating a primary challenge to the current sitting "Democratic" president.

After reading your post, to hear you speak of "vitriol" is the very definition of irony. Please look it up. :hi: "mean-spirited status quo apologists"? It's just too rich.
:rofl:

[Downtown Hound]

33. Ralph who?

[Number23]

35. My spirit is now torn in two...

[stevenleser]

36. Because Nader has so much else to do? Seriously, how would he miss this if he is a serious person?

Ugh, just thinking about him ruins my appetite.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

37. Awwww....poor Ralphie

May his slide into pathetic irrelevance continue

[CakeGrrl]

42. Guess ol' Ralph isn't as well-informed as Darcy Richardson.

:rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:


I doubt anyone outside of FL has heard of the guy, but at least HE knew when the filing deadline was.

[mac56]

43. Nuck Fader

Ego driven twerp.

[Hart2008]

44. Nader's plan was bad. Better to have one candidate who earns delegates. NT

[dionysus]

46. one man... like Gary Hart!!!11

[Freddie Stubbs]

47. If Michelle Bachman can figure out how to file on time, so can Nader