PLEASE RALPHY-SAY IT ISN'T SO....
It's official. Nader's gonna do it again. Here's what he has to say:

"After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I've decided to run as an independent candidate for president," Nader said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."

You go girl! I mean, come on... he failed miserably in the last election posing as a green. What makes him think he can "retire" bunnypants as an independent???
He won't and he can't, it's as simple as that.
Third parties don't work in this country beyond a local level because the ruling parties have a lock on the gig, they have the resources.
The only possible effect Nader will have is to ruin the dems chances to unseat bush and this would be a tragedy.
I'm not saying Kerry is the better choice, he's the only choice in my mind that has a rat's chance of beating bush. To me, that's all that matters, you could install a sock puppet in the white house and we'd be better off than we are currently.
I don't remember an election that was conducted on the issues (my parents used to tell me stories though) and this one is cooking up to be a doozy.
Smear-ection would be a better way to describe the process. bush is clearly a liar, surrounded by liars , but getting that message out to the masses is a laborious uphill climb. Little bits are starting to trickle out but they are instantly spun away or buried or most recently countered with some "more damaging" revelation about Kerry.
The media and the public have been bamboozled by this administration and somehow believe things are working fine. They aren't, look around, we are in a world of shit on every conceivable level and bunnypants and his minions are directly responsible for it.
Not Clinton. (And WHY are we still hearing about Clinton? Because it's EASY and, it gets a reaction ).
Sadly, as that vile shitbag Limbaugh predicted a week or so ago, Viet Nam is becoming the issue,that and military character in general.
This weekend alone I have seen THREE versions of Kerry's testimony in '71 about atrocities in Viet Nam, each one tailored to appeal to the targeted audiences political bent. One of them might be verbatim,they said it was, but who really knows?
Barring a miracle this election will be decided by who is the better slanderer, and if it's close you can be sure those assholes at the supreme court will step up for bush again and fix it, and I don't mean fix it like it's broke, I mean fix it like the 1919 world series.
A third party is a good idea whose time may never come. Nader ain't it that's for sure.