It's official, or will be soon enough.
NEW YORK -- Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate who ran for president in 2000 as a Green Party candidate, will enter the 2004 race for the White House as an independent candidate, advisers told Fox News on Friday.
A formal announcement by Nader is expected this weekend.
"He's going to be discussing his role in the presidential election," Linda Schade, a spokeswoman for Nader's presidential exploratory committee, said of the man whose 2000 run is blamed by many Democrats for tilting a close election in favor of George W. Bush (search). "He's felt there is a role for an independent candidate to play."
He'll be independent, and not Green, so he'll not split the vote as much, which is good. Anyway, I can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that Dean has dropped. The timing of it does seem a tad suspicious.