First things first:  As you have noticed or not noticed I haven’t updated my site in quite a while.  The front page hasn’t seen a real article since the First of December 03, and my journal has not been updated this month.  Work has been kicking my butt and my attention has strayed.  So with a little luck and effort you will see some new content on a semi erratic schedule.

Now back to the topic at hand:  Fuck Ralph Nader in the ear!  I really just like saying that over and over and over again.  I find myself asking what the hell?  The man who self-indulgent ego put George Bush in the white house is back.

Salon today: Even many of his former allies don’t support maverick Ralph Nader’s presidential bid. And more mainstream Democrats aren’t just mad—they’re apoplectic.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/21/nader/index.html

More from Salon:
It’s hypocrisy of the highest level. It’s egotism of the highest level. It’s dishonesty of the highest level to say ‘I’m running as an independent,’ when all he’s doing is helping elect Bush, and he knows it,” says Elizabeth Holtzman, former New York City congresswoman and U.S. district attorney. “He’s nothing but a shill for George Bush. A shill, period.”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/21/nader/index.html

I think everyone on the left was happy with good old Ross P. entered the race and help split the voter on the right.  Nader was the main factor costing Al the election in 2000.  Ok Ross hurt the right and Nader killed the left.  But you should only get one!  But in Walks Ralph after Dean, and Clark, drop out the field closed to 2.  And perhaps there is time for the Democrats to come together and support one candidate and defeat W.  Up pops Nader, he’s the guy who always shows up late after all the work is done but in time to eat.

Ralph Nader should really think long and hard about what it is he hopes to accomplish.  If that is putting W. back in the Whitehouse for another 4 years then he should stay in.  He has politically isolated himself on the left.