THE SAINT RETURNS (MAYBE)

Saint Ralph Nader, he of the hundreds of thousands invested in the oil/walmart/defense-rich Fidelity Magellan Fund, is pondering a run for president as a Republican in progressive's clothing Green again.

Ralph Nader said Thursday he will wait until the end of the year to decide on another run for the White House. First, he wants to see how the Democrats and Republicans respond to his agenda.

The consumer activist plans to send the parties, in the next few weeks, his blueprint on the need for universal health insurance, a more progressive wage policy and an aggressive crackdown on corporate fraud and abuse.

"The highest priority is to defeat President George W. Bush and his administration, which is running this country into the ground," Nader said at a news conference. (emphasis tfm)

Well, Ralphie, if you really believe that, then you know what to do.

By the way, Ralph, take a look at Howard Dean. He's raised 25 million dollars this year, from hundreds of thousands of individual donors, with the average donation in the double digits. George W Bush has dinner-fundraisers where 500 people pay $2000 each, and he walks out with a million dollars. Now, tell me there's no difference between the parties.