Legal Commentary

Late Night: Nader Wants to Debate

By Jeralyn

Third party candidate Ralph Nader released this ad today showing similarities between McCain and Obama and then laying out his different positions. One big one: Nader is for "Across the board amnesty for all non-violent drug offenders."

Nader's time has passed, and I hope everyone will realize the choice between McCain and Obama is a choice between the failed Republican policies of the last 8 years and a chance to do things differently. I don't care to see either Bob Barr or Ralph Nader in the presidential debates.

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I would like to see Nader's VP candidate, former public defender Matt Gonzales, in the Biden/Palin debate, just so the public could get a sense of what a progressive agenda is about on criminal justice issues. Between Biden, who's never met a crime bill he didn't like and Palin, who probably can't even understand one, it would be refreshing and enlightening in the way Dennis Kucinich, whose position on issues most closely match mine, was during the debates he participated in.

Nader and Gonzales are necessary voices. They know, as do we all, they can't win. But they get people thinking, and that's a start to real change.

Here's more on Gonzales, who as the Green party candidate for Mayor of San Francisco in 2003 garnered 47% of the vote against Democrat Gavin Newsom.

As with all late night posts, this is an open thread.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).