Delusions of adequacy

And today's Fuck You goes out to...

...Ralph Nader, who according to Politico is considering yet another run at the Presidency.

Because America, presumably, hasn't suffered enough under the Bush regime he brought into power in the first place.

Who does Ralph Nader consider worthy of praise in the current line-up? Mike Gravel - that's GRA-Velle for those of you who've never heard of the man - and Ron Paul - yes, that Ron Paul, the guy who's against the war and the Patriot Act, but still carries the dubious distinction of otherwise being Texas' most reactionary Congressman. This is political nihilism blended with incoherence.

Ralph Nader is an irrelevancy, still feeding off a time, back when disco was popular, when he had something notable to say. Today, however, with the odium of fathering the Bush administration firmly attached to him, Ralph Nader speaks for nothing and no one other than his own vastly over-inflated sense of self. The tragedy is that he may very well be willing to inflict the price of that towering ego, fed as it is by a sense of his own indispensability - a sense not widely shared beyond the confines of the political ghetto that is the Green Party - on the nation, once again. This because, similar to other cranks, and despite the mountainous evidence piled up, one coffin at time, to the contrary, he still believes that there is no appreciable difference between the two major parties. That's still a fashionable belief, in some narrowly constricted circles; however, it is manifestly, demonstrably, incontestably, untrue, and anyone who believes otherwise, after the abject lessons taught over the last few years, should be committed to a home for the criminally insane.
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