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Ralph Nader has every right to run for the presidency, and I have every right to despise him for doing so.

It is more than a little bit whiney for Nader to complain when others call him egomaniacal, demagogic, selfish, self-inflated, bone-headed, hypocritical, a traitor to the issues he claims to care about, a pawn of the Republicans, an enabler of extremists–and worse.

As Sir Isaac Newton said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Did Nader think, despite all the desertions by his former supporters and admirers, that we would thank him for running again?