No Apologies

Two thoughts: First, John McCain tried this, and his wagon went off a cliff. Second, with all due respect, 3% of the vote doesn't signal a revolution, nor does it transform leadership. And here is where you wonder why a guy with 40 years of effective cage rattling to his credit would marginalize himself by jumping into the cage.

Nader has never been more noble or more naive. There is no place for uncompromised idealism in politics, or for anyone who knows exactly who he is. Some of his former friends wanted nothing more than for him to admit that Gore and Bush are like night and day in many ways, and Nader might still have their respect if he had. But the fight goes on, with or without them. "If you believe you're right," Nader says before disappearing through a door in the dim light of the quiet house, "you never lose the election."