Ralph Nader, Our New Harold Stassen

Why won’t he go away and leave decent people alone?

In the least surprising, most pathetic development of the 2008 campaign season, fading contrarian whore Ralph Nader — the best friend that “corporatists” ever had — has entered the presidential sweepstakes, determined to help John McCain get elected.

Fellow holier-than-thou contrarians Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey Sinclair of CounterPunch are undoubtedly jerking off over their stained commodes even as we speak. After all, Ralph has been publishing his increasingly unhinged jeremiads and rationalizations on their CounterPunch site for several years now.

Or else he’s just off his meds.

From The Politico:

Nader enters in boon to GOP
By: Mike Allen and Ben Smith
Feb 24, 2008 09:48 AM EST
Updated: February 24, 2008 01:43 PM EST

Ralph Nader announced on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he’ll run as a third-party, anti-corporate candidate for president this fall, which would be likely to drain votes from the Democratic nominee and provide a huge boon to Republicans….

There’s more everywhere, but frankly, I have better and more valuable things I could be doing with my time, like, say, trimming my nose hair (which ain’t a bad idea for Ralphie Boy, neither, BTW).

It’s time for this fading whore of “progressivism” to admit the truth: nobody pays any attention to the 73-year-old basket-case unless he “runs” for president, and while he gets to give interviews like that Cranky Old Fart Who Yells At You For Getting On His Lawn, really, he’s sort of a fart in the windstorm of American politics — somebody to give the media hacks a little sideshow when they’re tired of talking about real candidates with a real chance.

Dance, monkey, dance!

The only impact that “Progressive” Nader could possibly have would be to throw a close state — like, say, Florida — for McCain and the Rethuglicans.

But, having done just that in 2000, Nader still clings to his old, tired rationalizations. “No I di’unt!“

Maybe there IS some value in being a drunk and a wet-brain. At least you just lie in an alley and rot to death, rather than doing so in full view of the American media, who love to play along with a man who’s bound and determined to eradicate every last vestige of respect that sane Americans ever had for him.

(Watch for him on Lary King next week, undoubtedly.)

Just think, if he’d have played ball, he could have been in charge of Consumer Affairs in a Gore Administration. As it is, he’s the laughing stock of multiple generations, only adulated by a lunatic fringe who consider themselves better than the rest of us, because they are “more democratic.” Whatever reputation he once had is long gone.

Now he’s just burnishing his “bat-shit-crazy” street cred.

Harold Stassen rides again.

Courage.

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