Nader Makes Goofball Statements

I used to give Nader credit for being willing and able to believe so strongly in his left-wing positions to stand for them in a Presidential election, but
not any more.

Nader has become willfully blind to the fact that he is being helped onto ballots in places such as Oregon by conservative groups -- whose help he gleefully accepts -- which state openly that their purpose is to bleed votes from Kerry.

He is now also saying that Democrats who want him to drop out are "afraid of Democracy."

Hold on. This means Nader doesn't understand the calculus of voting. If candidate Tush had 48% of the vote and candidate Berry had 52%, then Berry wins, with support of more than half the people. If Tush gets his buddies to financially support candidate Spader, who is similar enough to Berry to pull 5% of the vote from him, then Tush takes it -- even though Tush had less than half the country behind him. That's not a fair exercise of democracy, that's a trick of the ballot box to deprive the country's majority of a leader they are behind. This exactly, for example, how John F. Kennedy's dad got him elected to the House the first time (in Boston's Irish/Italian race politics, Kennedy pere funded a third opponent with the same name as Kennedy's competition, and split the vote).

And just because that's the way the system works, and we have the opportunity to change it (yeah, right), doesn't mean we should admire or back those who manipulate it -- such as Nader is now doing.

The simple fact is, polls show Kerry with a landslide if Nader is out of it, and neck-and-neck if Nader is in. Nader is no where near winning, and it's time for him to acknowledge that his staying in the race will give us 4 more years of constitutional-shredding Bush leadership, and get out of the race.