So it seems that Ralph Nader is running again.

You've got to be kidding me!

No matter what anyone (myself included) may have said about Nader's assessment of the Democratic party as a vehicle for change in the United States, it is painfully clear that there isn't really room for a divisive splinter candidate in the electorate to leave a functioning, viable majority that can resist GOP turn-back-the-clock-ism.

In short: get lost, Ralph.  You may have been right about the Democrats and GOP, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.  In 2000, you could not have foreseen the horrendous damage that your candidacy would do.  Today, you cannot make that claim.  

With the FISA implosion of the Democrats in the Senate today, I am left with only a single unifying theory of the American political landscape that really does connect all the dots:  Ralph Nader was right in 2000 when he said that there was no substantive difference between the parties.