He thinks that women are born peacemakers and that Hillary is not much of a woman in that regard.
"Nineties nostalgia is cute when it’s all about overalls and Nicki Minaj sampling “Baby Got Back,” but Ralph Nader is taking it too far, by trying to revive his all-too-successful late ‘90s campaign to convince huge numbers of American liberals that there is no meaningful difference between Republicans and Democrats."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/ralph-nader-hillary-clinton-democrats
Here he goes full blown Firedoglake:
This is evident throughout the interview in how Nader talks about politicians from both parties. He concedes that Jeb Bush is just like his brother and calls him a “corporatist and a militarist,” but he elides talking about specifics. For Democrats, however, his language gets aggressive and colorful. He outright accuses Obama of being worse than George W. Bush, no doubt hoping that the audience will just have a brain fart and forget about that whole thing when Bush, using falsified intelligence, invaded an entire country that was not actually a threat to our national security. Yes, the drone program is wrong and should be stopped, but it’s not worse than the Iraq War."
"Nineties nostalgia is cute when it’s all about overalls and Nicki Minaj sampling “Baby Got Back,” but Ralph Nader is taking it too far, by trying to revive his all-too-successful late ‘90s campaign to convince huge numbers of American liberals that there is no meaningful difference between Republicans and Democrats."
"In a recent interview with Larry King for Ora.TV, Nader launched a rather scurrilous accusation of secret Republicanism at Hillary Clinton that recalled his similar efforts against Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the ‘90s, only this time he added a sexist kicker to it. King asked Nader about recent accusations that Nader has lobbed at Clinton, namely that she evinces a “shocking militarism is a result of trying to overcompensate for her gender by being more aggressive and macho,” and that she’s “reversing the tradition of women of peace.”
“But isn’t she moving more toward the left?” King asked.
"Nader, in a performance that most of us who lived through the 2000 election remember, scoffed at this idea, painting Clinton as a war-mongerer who would put any Republican to shame. “She’s never seen a war she doesn’t like. When she was on the Senate Armed Services Committee, she never saw a weapon she doesn’t like,” Nader ranted.
"Then he went full-blown sexist, decrying “the tradition of these macho women who, when they finally get responsible positions—like Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice—it’s like they have to out-macho the men instead of saying, ‘We come from a peace advocacy tradition.'” He then went on to spell out how women, in his eyes, have a unique responsibility to be peaceable,because of the historical origins of Mother’s Day."
“But isn’t she moving more toward the left?” King asked.
"Nader, in a performance that most of us who lived through the 2000 election remember, scoffed at this idea, painting Clinton as a war-mongerer who would put any Republican to shame. “She’s never seen a war she doesn’t like. When she was on the Senate Armed Services Committee, she never saw a weapon she doesn’t like,” Nader ranted.
"Then he went full-blown sexist, decrying “the tradition of these macho women who, when they finally get responsible positions—like Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice—it’s like they have to out-macho the men instead of saying, ‘We come from a peace advocacy tradition.'” He then went on to spell out how women, in his eyes, have a unique responsibility to be peaceable,because of the historical origins of Mother’s Day."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/ralph-nader-hillary-clinton-democrats
Here he goes full blown Firedoglake:
This is evident throughout the interview in how Nader talks about politicians from both parties. He concedes that Jeb Bush is just like his brother and calls him a “corporatist and a militarist,” but he elides talking about specifics. For Democrats, however, his language gets aggressive and colorful. He outright accuses Obama of being worse than George W. Bush, no doubt hoping that the audience will just have a brain fart and forget about that whole thing when Bush, using falsified intelligence, invaded an entire country that was not actually a threat to our national security. Yes, the drone program is wrong and should be stopped, but it’s not worse than the Iraq War."
"Same story with Clinton: To watch this interview, you’d think that the country is much more likely to get into a war under Clinton than under Jeb Bush, an utterly preposterous idea that becomes more preposterous when you consider Jeb Bush has hired the same foreign policy team that encouraged his brother to start an adventure invasion of Iraq."
The trouble is Democrats tried it the Firedoglake way in Maine and somehow managed to twice elect a GOP Governor widely viewed as the worst in the nation.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-drive-emoprogs-crazy-say.html
The Democrats are no better than the Republicans meme just doesn't work because-it's a lie. Like if we had a Democratic leaning SJC right now we'd still have the Voting Rights Act and no Citizen's United ruling and would probably have pay equity judgments against Wallmart.
This is a fallacious line that Nader is peddling here. It's interesting that he feels free though to use the 'Hillary is too mannish' line. These are comments Rush Limbaugh would approve of.
I've often said that the Far Right and Far Left have more in common with each other and the real enemy for both is what Michael Lind calls the Radical Center.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Radical-Center-American-Politics/dp/0385720297
The good news is I don't think Democrats are in any mood to drink Nader's Cool-aid again.
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