Nader

Nader is running for president. Why will that man not learn that the Green Party or whatever he chooses to run under this year will NEVER work? After studying political parties last year you find that the system looks like this:
REPUBLICAN___________|___________DEMOCRAT_GREENS
.................................. Midpoint
With that layout, in a two party system you get the votes until the midpoint if you are one of the two major parties. If a third party comes in it inevitably takes votes from the major party that is on it's side of the line. Hence Nader is stealing votes from the Democrat party. With this being said, you are giving the opposite party from that which you want a higher chance of success. With this, he got 2.74% of the vote in 2000 (according to Wikipedia) taking 90,000 votes in Florida. Votes that can somewhat assume to go in favor of the Democratic party (somewhat in that there is a chance that some would vote for Bush rather than Gore). With this, it is purely logical to assume his actions took the needed votes from the Democrats to secure that victory.

8 years later we are still paying for this terrible mistake. We are in two wars, one of which was without doubt a blatant assault on a country that was innocent (Iraq, while under a terrible dictatorship did not send suicide bombers or possess the WMDs we accused them of having) in regards to our "War On Terror." We face more problems with Iran. In Cuba Castro is out and we won't lift our embargo. It was a disaster to elect this man to president and Nader unquestioningly did play some part in the issue.

With a mistake like this, wouldn't a sane man back down and say "even though I do not like the candidates particularly, the lesser of two evils is better?" In regards to him running, Benjamin Franklin said it best: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."