Ralph'd

Well...after no hemming and hawing whatsoever Ralph Nader has decided to accept the signatures gathered for him by the Michigan GOP to get on that state's presidential ballot this November.
So when does a anti corporate crusader who accepts the help of outright commerce worshippers, stop being a hero to his following?
This being America after all and the land of the co dependent political cult, the answer is never.
Nader has gone way beyond mere willful egotism this time.
I really think he is hoping Bush will be re-elected and the nation will go to smash thus punishing the electorate for not listening to him down through the years.
It is all pure spite on his part.
It is not even about a vaguely Leninist ambition to rebuild something better out of the rumble...Ralph knows who swings the sledgehammers in DC-he is crazy but he is not dumb.
Such is the necrosis that inevitably sets in when one is a famous political gadfly.
Enoch Powell once observed "all political careers end in failure".
To which I must add "All political careers end in betrayal sooner or later".
Of course I have to wonder, just who will be left for Ralph to betray and excoriate if Bush is re-elected?
No doubt GWB will unleash Grover Norquist and David Bossie to finish off the remains of democracy in America.
Liberals will hang from the lamp-posts from Georgetown to the Smithsonian.
Meanwhile Ralph will be touring campuses wonderingwhy his celebrated harangues are playing to nigh empty houses.
As I've said before there is nothing left but to engage his supporters on a case by case basis.
Ralph likes to sneer at the democrats for being tools of the corporations...but look who is helping him along every step of the way?
The GOP the very secular political front of commerce worship in America.
I mean really, who IS the tool here?
Sick
Demented
Typical...