February 28, 2008
Matt Gonzalez for VP, Says Nader
Whenever a presidential candidate announces his VP choice this early in the game, it's either to try to help him win a state, or to strengthen a weakness. Take, for example, Bill Clinton who chose Al Gore to help him win the South. And in 2000, George Bush selected Dick Cheney to help alleviate his complete lack of experience. So with that, we announce that Ralph Nader's Vice President pick is our very own Matt Gonzalez. Yay!
Also: huh?
Obviously the choice makes sense. Nader has a well-deserved reputation as a bit of a boring drip, so Gonzalez will help him with the hipster/artist types who will instantly fall in love with our one-time mayoral candidate's dreamy eyes and foppish hair. Plus,it will also give Nader a chance to win the electorally-rich Mission and Haight hoods.
As for Gonzalez? Well, we're guessing this awesome VP opportunity will help him grab lingering Nader supporters across the country. As for the almost impossible odds the Nader/Gonzalez team face? Matt says that he "has never entered a political campaign without the idea that it could be won."
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Oh, Matt.
We had such high hopes for you.
The guy can't even get elected as Mayor in ultra-liberal San Francisco. And he truly believe he can fare better across the heartland? Is he a fool or does he take us for fools?
Disappointing in a lot of ways.
I think Nader has done great work as a consumer advocate and I was an enthusiastic supporter of his back in 2000. He didn't deliver then on his promise to help build an organization that could change politics as usual. I couldn't disagree more with the whole "blame Nader for Bush" argument, but I knew his candidacy in 2004 would do more harm than good. And given his poor showing in that election, I'm surprised he wanted to run again this year.
Gonzalez I thought had more sense than to tie his dingy to this sinking ship. Before this move, he could have made a comeback in local politics with a little work. I mean there was a lot of interest when he flirted with running for mayor again last year, but now ...
Anyhow, I'll be voting for McKinney.
Perhaps both, urban_angst. Perhaps both.
this is why i would never vote green...
these two clowns always show up every election cycle & blow hot air about how no one is as politically correct as a carpetbagging son of mexicos elite PRI & some wash out old man in a edsel...neither has ever done anything to make this blue collar life easier.
go away dorks or better move back to texas or portland.
Oh my God. I would attempt to analyze the efficacy of this ticket if I wasn’t too busy laughing.
Who the hell - even a Decline to State voter, like me - would waste their vote on a Nader/Gonzalez ticket? They must be too high to be taking this seriously.
Funny thing though - local lefties and Greens are supporting Obama. I guess after screwing over everyone last year with his back room political shenanigans and screwing over progressives as good as he did, they're not inclined to support his candyland BS anymore.
Run, Matt, Run! Away from SF!
He brings some fuckability to the ticket. I like it.
Question: Does Nader even belong to a party anymore? The Greens rejected his sorry, lazy-eyelidded ass in 2004.
And Nader calling Matt a " beautiful artist," "man for all seasons,” etc. made me throw up a little in my mouth. This news is upsetting enough without the homoerotic subtext.
It's the Tired Old Cranky Anti-Everything Party! Where do I sign up?
It's the Tired Old Cranky Anti-Everything Party! Where do I sign up?
F-ability? With the arms crossed and hair flipped over his forehead he's looking a tad Hitlerish. Lousy low-res picture.
Nader never was a Green. Never was registered in any party in fact. Something about a promise to his dying father.
I didn't think there were political parties back in the 1600s, when Nader's father must have lived.
Just shows what a joke SF politics are! Obama will lose all thos Sf votes in Nov ... too bad!
Matt bailed out on his constituents, his party, and his ideals. I knew he had an ego, but I did not think it was that big.
Mr. Gonzales goes to Washington:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2008/02/drum_roll_please_nader_picks_a.html
"I'm not a familiar face to the Washington press corps," the Nader runningmate admitted. Nor to many other people. He's a former member of the San Francisco Board of supervisors. He lost a race for San Francisco district attorney. He lost a race for San Francisco mayor. And now, he's ready to put that background to use for his biggest challenge yet: losing a race for the vice presidency.
I heard on TV this morning that scientists have determined that some fish can count to four, which by coincidence is the number of votes The Tired Old Cranky Anti-Everything Party will draw away from Obama.
The only thing that makes sense is Matt looking for some national exposure to boost his law practice.
One need not have a Ph.D in political science to project that the Nader/Gonzalez ticket will win about as many votes as there are Nader/Gonzalez signs printed—right now.
hey matt's got an ego to feed I guess we should let him puff around because he's so f*cking smart and artistic.
Crickets, crickets and more crickets! All I hear is those confounded crickets!!!
San Francisco makes itself a punchline, once again. Subtract 10 dreaminess points from MZ.
Grandpa Munster picks a young Green for VP. Cool. But what role will Gary Coleman play in the Nader campaign now?
First up, all you middle aged women saying Matt is hot need to pull on your purple sweat pants, jump in your ancient Volvos and scuttle on down to Lenscrafters. The dude's oily.
Second up, when Fox News and the like decend on our town tomorrow looking for hippy dippy types to lampoon our city with, please don't play to the camera and act like a loon with bad teeth.
Third, does this mean he gets a Secret Service detail now? Because that would just be too funny to see.
Seriously though, where is his moral compass?. He was elected to a Supervisors seat as a Democrat to serve his constituents and then was President of the Board. He left the Democratic Party and ran for Mayor as a Green candidate to represent the people of the city, yet when he lost he quit public service. He has now left the Green Party in order to run as a VP candidate. He has every right, but every time he has something he holds dear to him, he leaves it and goes elsewhere. If he had stayed on the board, he would be the hot favorite to actually become Mayor instead of running some Walter Mitty campaign with Ralph Nader.
Matt hates Obama - he had to run against him.
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5413
not surprised he didnt chose dime-a-dozen millionares trust fund poets from silicon valley.
oh whoops, being a hipster in the hayes disqualafies you from being a rich palo-alto kiddo, my bad.
daithi - If you were a Progressive and really grasped politics you would understand that it is a hopeless cause with insignificant traction. The words 'idealistic' and 'naive' come to mind. Kind of like the people who organize that Anarchist Book Fair.
Eventually, most Progressives grow up, take a shower and become Independents who age and become Democrats then just before they die, everyone gets senile and converts to Republicanism. It's kind of like 'finding jesus' once you end up in prison.