Nader blabbering on MSNBC. Still not apologizing for Bush.

[Jim Lane]

144. Your slam at Kucinich is 100% wrong. Kucinich did what Nader should've done: run in the PRIMARY.

This is just a matter of being smart -- of analyzing the rules and of selecting the course of action that's most likely to work.

If you run in the primary and lose, then you and your voters can still support the better major-party candidate in the general election. The people who voted for Kucinich in 2004 and/or 2008 were, I'm sure, overwhelmingly supportive of Kerry and Obama in the general election.

If you run a hopeless campaign in the general election, then you and your voters are sidelining yourselves in the process that will choose the person who actually gets the office.

If Nader had run in the Democratic primaries in 2000, I would've voted for him. Even assuming his candidacy to be hopeless (not a perfectly safe assumption), I would've been willing to give up my chance to choose between Bradley and Gore for the nomination, because there wasn't much difference between them. I was NOT willing to give up my chance to choose between Gore and Bush, who were vastly different.