A constructive approach to the Nader menace

As some of you may have noticed, I'm reaching the stage of frustration with the whole Nader thing I should have reached about four years ago. In a few weeks I should be reaching the "sputtering rage" stage.

I don't really want to be there. I'd like to maintain a more reasoned and practical response.

Thanks to Eszter at CT, I've found a website appropriate to my needs. Here it is.

The game is--pledge to support one of the many fine and important organizations the good Ralph founded many years ago, if he is out of the race by Sept. 1.

I doubt this will work in the sense that it will actually make him seriously reconsider his run. But it could work in another way--by showing people the extent to which Nader has abandoned the approach to progressive political activism that worked in favor an increasingly tragi-comic Don Quixote routine.

So there it is. I've got 25 dollars earmarked for Clean Water Action if Ralph can bring himself to help stop W from undoing much of the good he did in his long and admirable life of public service.