Fine, Freda. Here is what I have to say. Ralph Nader has a right to exercise his constitutional right to run as a third party independent candidate, regardless of what that does to the Democratic party.

Have any of the Anybody But Bush anti-Naderites considered how you will all look to the American electorate if Bush wins by landslide margins this year? No? Well, you should, considering the Republicrats track record since Jimmy Carter.

If Bush wins by a landslide, who will the Republicrats blame when they won't be able to say that the Republicans/Supreme Court/Ralph Nader stole their election?

Answer: maybe they'll have to look at their loser candidates, and ways they sold out their party and their country, so they could keep their fat cat jobs Washington.

Your fellow citizens bashing Ralph Nader for doing what any citizen of the US has a constitutional, democratic right to do--which is run independent of the rigged two party system to strike a blow against the empire, fall on deaf ears, freda. Why? Because the two party system is a large part of the problem. But the biggest part of the problem is the corruption and graft levels in the Democratic party and Republican party. Voting for John Kerry or George Bush will do absolutely nothing now, or down the line, to end that corruption and graft.

When you compare the two candidates positions on the main issues facing voters in this election, their views and positions are nearly identical. That gives Bush a tremendous advantage as the incumbent. The only other candidate who was more unelectable than Kerry in the Democratic primaries was Joe Lieberman, who was on the last losing ticket. The youth vote is now totally alienated and feels totally sold out by the Dems. So does the party's progressive wing.

So who is going to go out and campaign and get out the vote for Kerry? Mudcat duffers who are glued to their computers? I don't think so. Nobody is impassioned and fired up about this candidate, and most Democrats and independents are completely demoralized by him. Kerry's handlers and spinners are trying to sell him now as the "dispassionate liberal".

Whatever. Smells like Bush landslide to me.