Time to lay it on the table -- Democrats who want to get Bush out of the White House need to go after Nader as hard as they go after Bush. None of this kid gloves treatment because we awe so scawed of his awienating his fowwowers. No f'ing way. Like Mark Kleiman says:
Four years ago, when Ralph Nader ran for President, he got more or less a free pass both from his opponents and from the press. Gore didn't want to alienate Nader voters, and Nader, having made a career out of providing good copy for the media, was treated as sacrosanct by reporters.
One of the bitterest lessons I learned as a young and naive liberal staffer on Capitol Hill was that the "public interest research" produced by the Nader groups was systematically fraudulent. Every time I actually got into an issue deeply enough to understand the details -- nuclear power, toxic waste, pharmaceutical regulation -- I discovered that the Naderites had no more respect for the facts than the industries they were fighting: in some cases, less.
So let's hear a little less about St. Ralph this time. Someone should ask some pointed questions about how he got to be a multimillionaire. (Hint: What happens to the royalties on the books that the underpaid Public Citizen employees write under Nader's by-line?)
http://www.markarkleiman.com/archives/election_2004_/2004/02/will_ralph_get_another_free_pass.php
You can find more good information on Nader's hyprocisy and eyebrow-raising activities here:
http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm