You Know What Burst my Bubble

In recent news we have heard the green party, independent, reform party and maybe a democrat at best. The 2008 third party candidate Ralph Nader has entered the race. What burst my bubble about Ralph is he has always come in to try to “stir things up.” Not at the beginning, but towards the end when all the candidates have put in endless hours of work, speeches, traveling, debates, and hand shacks. This I find is the only problem I have with the election process, in which one outside candidate can just jump in at the end without winning any state. Not just that, but Ralph doesn’t have to spend as much money or time in general to become a presidential nominee. But beside the point do you think Ralph will win, let’s look at his history report. Ralph has run for President of the United States four times in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004, and will make a fifth attempt in 2008. In 1992 he ran as a write-in in both the New Hampshire Republican and Democratic primaries, and other primaries. In 1996 and 2000, he was the nominee of the Green Party; in 2004, he ran as an independent. All in which lost by a landslide, not only that but has taken votes from Democrat parties such as the 2000 elections where votes in key states that potentially might have cost Al Gore the presidency. Even look at other candidates that had changed the outcome of an election, such as Ross Perot taking the republican votes from George H.W. Bush in 1992 and costing him the election. Ralph Nader will nearly do the same in the 2008 election by taken the democratic nominee, whoever that maybe. I don’t mind a competitive race, but when a candidate does not put in the hours and effort as the other candidates that’s not right. So when Ralph Nader once again decided to just jump into this race that’s when it “Burst My Bubble”


Tim Lovell