Ralph Nader

With Ralph Nader's announcement that he's going to run again (not as a Greenie this time) for president comes with it a lot of invective against him.

I happen to think his choice is unfortunate but it's his choice. Yes, I'd agree that he's squandering his legacy of good will among people who still very much respect the man Nader was in the '60s through the 80s. But I don't agree with efforts to stop him or defame him and I don't believe he cost Al Gore the 2000 election. I think the blame for that lay squarely with the media's treatment of Gore on the one hand and the real underhandedness on the part of the GOP in how Florida votes were counted.