Spin Dry

Ralph Nader can just go Dick Cheney himself. He accuses the Democrats of playing "dirty tricks" when he doesn't qualify for the Arizona ballot, but that's just sour grapes. The truth that Ralphie can't accept is that no one wants his sorry ass. The American public doesn't need him as a spoiler, the Greens have disowned him, and the only place in the universe where Nader is a viable candidate for anything is in his inflated ego.

If he had half a brain and wasn't just a self-agrandizing midget, he'd work with the Kerry campaign, in tacit agreement that he'd receive a cabinet nomination in return -- AG, perhaps, or maybe Secretary of Energy. That's the only way Nader is ever going to get close enough to be a Washington insider. He isn't going to do it on his own and, at his age, the clock is running out.

So, Ralph, piss off. We don't need you running in this race just so you can get your jollies. Go away, shut up and don't darken our political doorstep again, unless it's to work with those who would see W removed from office.

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Incidentally, I remember seeing footage on the news of a Nader press conference some time back. I don't remember the context, although it may have been when he announced his candidacy. Anyway, someone, either out of boredom, by mistake or deliberately, changed the camera angle at one point. We start with a close-up of Nader pontificating from the podium. Suddenly, we go to a wide shot to see that there are exactly three people in the room, all of them print journalists. That popping sound you hear was Nader's inflated ego meeting the pinprick of reality.