Nader has evolved into the Harold Stassen of today

[book_worm]

For those who don't know Harold Stassen he was once a prominent GOP Governor who seriously ran for president in 1948--and lost the nomination. So he tried again...1952, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976...until he was a punchline in a joke. He kept running and he became more and more irrelevant and wound up only getting a few scattered votes.

When Nader ran again in 2004 he got far fewer votes than he did in 2000 and he will do much worse this year.

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. More like Lyndon LaRouche

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Nope, both Stassen and Nader were decent people of social accomplishment

outside of their perennial presidential runs. LaRouche has always been a meaningless fringe nuisance.

[OmahaBlueDog]

4. Disagree. Nader has risen to the level of "fringe nuisance"

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. At least Stassen would go away after the convention.

& not mess with the general election.

[UTUSN]

5. Evolution's got nuthin' to do with it!1 n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Stassen isn't a good comparison

Stassen was seeking the GOP nomination from 1948 until he died in his eighties.

Nader is a perennial candidate for disaffected leftists. So he's more like the Eugene V. Debs or Norman Thomas or our times.