WE'RE BEGGING YOU, RALPH!
"On (last) Friday's season premiere of Real Time (with Bill Maher), not all the highlights were verbal. Late in the show, Maher joined guest Michael Moore ("Fahrenheit 9/11") on the studio floor so they could both beg Ralph Nader, on their knees, not to run again. Nader just grinned that evil grin of his. Okay, not evil -- but increasingly annoying." Tom Shales, Washington Post
"Mr. Nader's determination to stay in the contest was evident on Friday night in Los Angeles, when Michael Moore, the filmmaker, who backed Mr. Nader in 2000, appeared with him on the HBO program "Real Time with Bill Maher." Mr. Moore and Mr. Maher dropped to their knees to beg Mr. Nader to drop out, with the audience cheering them on. Mr. Nader was unmoved, saying only, "We're going to help defeat George W. Bush" and dashing off the set at his first opportunity." Katherine Q. Seelye, New York Times
"A vote for a third party here does not translate into any seats, into any say. On the contrary, if you were to - you are a great man, Ralph Nader. I respect you. You changed the way people think about power. Not in this country, but in every developed country. I can't tell you when I was a political science professor, how often - I mean, how Unsafe at Any Speed changed the way we think about power. You could be out there as the gadfly mobilizing the people who look to you for leadership and being like Sam Gompers and saying, 'I'm going - let's call it the 'feet to the fire' campaign.' And close to November 2nd, you do a report card where you say what you think people should vote for. But then you have leverage. And if you help somebody win, then you're still a player. And the people who look to you get to be players." – Kim Campbell
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