Is third party maven Ralph Nader an idealist, a spoiler or just another ego-bloated political hack who has some political scores to settle?
The debate rages amid signs that Ralph Nader Will Ride Again (last time he accepted money from Republicans who clearly wanted to sandbag the Democratic vote). It rages in various places — for instance HERE.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.