By Beauty Damned

Nader! NOOOOOO!

Dear Ralph Nader,

Why are you doing this? Why are you running for president again? Have you completely lost your mind? Now is not the time for this kind of arrogance. I wrote you an email just the other day making a last ditch effort to beg you not to run. Remember? I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I wrote that I respect you and you're a great guy and everything, but please, just vote with the rest of Americans to get Bush out of the White House. I am so mad at you. Are you nuts? You are not going to win. You are just going to cause trouble. I really understand your statement about principles and your feeling that the democratic candidates are not fit to run this country anymore than George Bush is and they are equally driven by greed and special interests. And honestly, I don't know. Maybe you're right. But I don't think that either of them could possibly do as bad of a job of running this country as Bush has.

I think I'd rather have John Kerry or Edwards or Kucinich or Howard Dean (yes, still) in the White House anyday over Bush. You're betraying your own brand of greed and selfishness in the simple act of choosing to run again and I think you need to curb your ego and forget about it. Seriously man, it is just NOT a good idea for you to run for president right now. I know you're getting really pretty old and you dearly want to be president before it's all over and this is your life dream...and dude, it's a great dream. Seriously, I gotta give it to you: you reach high, but I think you have to accept that you are not the one. You are not the one my man. So step off and allow the removal of George Bush from office to go forward without the hindrance of your candidacy.

p.s. If you don't quit the race and you actually win, I will volunteer to go on Fear Factor and lay in a coffin filled with those crazy hissing cockroaches and maybe even a couple snakes. That is what I think of your chances Ralphie.
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As a side note here, I am going to post this UK article, also relaying the news of Ralph's candidacy, which mentions something that really caught my attention, that is, that Kerry ended this month with approximately 2 million in campaign funds (wiped out by his snowball victories), Edwards with a mere $120,000 and Bush with nearly 100 million USD in the bank to fuel his candidacy to keep the presidency.

"The Republicans are expected to unleash shortly the most expensive political advertising campaign in history, designed to define Mr Kerry as a shifty, upper-class liberal, who could not be trusted to keep America safe from terrorists." (Emphasis added)

Wow. That's a lot of money to spend to try and shift negative focus. Maybe if Bush was a better president he wouldn't have to spend a hundred million dollars on the task of trying to slam his opponent's character, because perhaps his own would speak for itself. But alas, it does not.

Posted by Maria at February 22, 2004 08:31 PM | TrackBack