Illusions of Grandeur

Surprising nobody, Ralph Nader, an Independent from Connecticut has once again entered the Presidential race. He has run for President five times, and never really gotten any major support. He's got a drab personality, and usually only focuses on one or two issues during his campaign. He's got no shot, and he knows it, yet he continues to waste people's money running for President every single cycle

Why? Some might say that he just wants to bring important issues to the table. They argue that he wants his environmental agenda to be recognized by the major candidates, and is entering the race to do just that. I used to think this way, but not any more.

That strategy only works when the major candidates feel that they need to win the third party's constituency in order to take the election. The fact is that they don't. Ralph Nader doesn't have nearly the influence that he once did, which at its height really wasn't even too much. The American public just doesn't care any more, Ralph. We don't view you as some sort of Indpendent hero, fighting for the people and the environment. America is in the process of the most exciting election cycle in a hundred years, and you just couldn't resist sticking yourself in it. Its about you this time buddy. It's all about promoting your own name, not the issues.

And this is coming after you likely cost Al Gore the election in 2000. You think you might have learned by now, that you hurt more than you help. You lean to the democratic side, yet you constantly jeopardize their chances to win nailbiting elections. Yet you don't stop, and you never will. Because its not about the issues Ralph, its about you. And it always will be.

Let me be the first of the American people to let you know. We don't care.