Tucker Carlson predicts Nader will drop out

[wish_I_could_vote]

On Hardball this morning, Tucker Carlson predicted that Nader would drop out of the race shortly after the Dem convention. Anyone else getting any vibes about this? Or is that annoying twit yanking my chain?

[NJCher]

1. motivation?

I wonder what Tucker's motivation is? Usually these r-w shills are all on the same key with their talking points.

Truly puzzled by this one.


Cher

[MoonRiver]

5. Maybe he wants us to lower our guard?

If I really believed that, I would probably feel better about Nader and give him some slack. In other words, I definitely think Tucker is pulling our collective chain (or trying to). Some things and people will never change.

[Eric J in MN]

7. That must be it . Tucker doesn't want Democrats to....

...challenge Nader's signatures to get on the ballot, so he's spreading falsehoods that Nader will drop out.

[MoonRiver]

8. It's the same manipulation tactic they have used on Dems for decades.

The message is, just shut the FUCK up and we'll be nice. Promise! ;)

[PVnRT]

11. Or maybe

he was just offering an opinion with no ulterior motives. People do that, you know.

[MoonRiver]

12. Tucker's track record would indicate otherwise.

The firmest tenet in psychology is: "the greatest predictor of future behavior is past behavior".

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Maybe Nader will drop Camejo and ask Tucker to be his running mate

They both have the huge ego factor in common.

[charlyvi]

2. Uh Oh--Nader's staying in.

Tucker Carlson, the guy who ate the cake made to look like a shoe when Hillary's book became a best seller. That Tucker Carlson?

[quaoar]

6. Did Tucker say

He would eat a Corvair if he was wrong about this?

[Lefty Pragmatist]

3. He's an idiot with zero access.

I don't pay attention to him when he says things I don't like. Why would I pay any attention to him now? Probably just roiling the waters. Ef him.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. His Ego Won't Let Him

No way....

[tom22]

9. Chris Matthew's Follow up

question was "Will Nade announce this at the Democratic Convention?" I think somebody knows something.

[PVnRT]

10. Only if

Nader suddenly loses his massive, massive ego and messiah complex.

[Killarney]

13. Fucker, oh I mean Tucker, is wrong all the time.

He eats a shoe a day.

[DarthDem]

14. Agree In Part . . .

Carlson is a shill who has certainly shown all the negative tendencies everyone here has mentioned, in abundance.

However, over the past few months I've detected a little reformation on his part. He's still a worm, but I think he may have felt which way the wind was blowing, or something. In any event, I wouldn't distrust this information just because it comes from Bow-Tie Boy - - especially if Tweety picked right up on it.

Moreover, the move by Nader would make sense. We've all concluded that his presence in American politics is about feeding his ego; but his current campaign, shunned by the Greens and unlikely to make the ballot in enough states even to register on the national radar screen, is not really going to be any kind of ego boost for him. Even more significantly, he's not likely to make the difference in the election this time around, either.

So, the most efficient way, looking at things from Ralphie's perspective (and this is not easy), to try to massage that ego of his might very well be to drop out and be welcomed by the Democrats with open arms, receive some sort of bone thrown his way in the party platform, etc. That's why his dropping out is logical. Don't disbelieve it just because it comes from Tucker. :)

[wish_I_could_vote]

17. I agree with this:

"However, over the past few months I've detected a little reformation on his part. He's still a worm, but I think he may have felt which way the wind was blowing, or something. In any event, I wouldn't distrust this information just because it comes from Bow-Tie Boy - - especially if Tweety picked right up on it."

Tucker boy has been toning it down. He used to make me so angry that, despite being a retired female with failing health, I believe I could have taken him on and knocked the crap out of him. Now he just annoys me.

[charlyvi]

18. Tucker told the world

that Karen Hughes lies through her teeth. He thinks she's mentally ill. Kos has a post about it here:

http://www.dailykos.net/archives/004159.html

Here's a sample:

Then I heard that Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane.

I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.

While I always assumed Karen Hughes was mentally ill (the same goes for the entire Chickenhawk Cabal), it's nice seeing a solid conservative confirming my assumptions.

p.s. Tucker also calls O'Reilly a "humorless phony". He nailed that one on the head!


I'm beginning to think Tucker is more a libertarian than rw conservative. Interesting, huh?

[NJCher]

19. wow, was that ever interesting!

Missed that bit about TC calling Karen Hughes mentally ill. I find that this observation of his extremely creepy:

There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.

There is something so wrong with that woman. Everytime I see her chills run up and down my spine. I don't even like the way she talks--something icky about the way her mouth moves. Also, her eyes are sort of disjointed. They don't line up right. And then marrying that old guy and the kid and the whole bit....sick scene.


Cher

[Doosh]

16. probably depends on how many signatures he's collecting

if he's slow to get signings, why bother?

[tritsofme]

20. Only to reenter later in the fall...

oops wrong election....

[magnolia]

21. You missed what followed....

He predicted that Nader would drop out. Then said, "So the winner of the election will win both the popular and electoral vote."

[Amarant]

22. He will

I don't know why everyone is so worried about him this time around. What do you think he and kerry talked about?