The other day my brother and I was watching something about the US presidential election. My brother said to me isn’t it great that Ralph Nader isn’t running.

Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate famous for writing the book Unsafe at any Speed. This book shone a light on the terrible safety record of cars built at that time. In a response to this cars have become increasingly safer. You could argue this book has saved more lives than any other in history.

He sounds just like the sort of person you want to be president. Ralph has run four times for President running as a progressive candidate, sometimes for the Greens others as an independent.

The problem is all the people who vote for Ralph would probably vote Democrat if he wasn’t in the race. Unfortunately, in America they do not have preferential voting. A vote for Ralph does not trickle down to a vote for Obama. Ralph only ever gets one or two percent of the vote. This means that everyone who votes for Ralph is not voting for a candidate that actually has a chance of winning – it is a vote wasted. It splits the vote and gives the Republican candidates a much bigger chance of winning.

In 2000 George W. Bush only barely won. If Ralph Nader wasn’t in the race chances are Al Gore would have been president and the world would now be a very different place. It is a similar story in 2004 John Kerry’s presidential hopes were dashed (W. probably would have won anyway but it didn’t help).

George W. Bush reserves a special place in his heart for Ralph Nader.

Ralph Nader has again threatened the chances of a change in the White House. He has chosen to run for president in 2008.

It really makes me sick how a hero like Nader can do such a pathetically stupid, counterproductive and downright totally fucked up thing – not once, not twice, but four times.

Ralph Nader shut the fuck up! Actually think rationally: All the people saved by Unsafe at any Speed – all the people killed in the second Iraq war = Nader still a hero. Hmmmm…Nah, fuck off and die Nader!

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