ABCNEWS.com : Nader's New Base: Republicans?

I don't generally write about Ralph Nader. I try not to, because I hate him. He did a lot of good once, but all of it was wiped out in 2000. But he's gone so far that I have to say something. But I don't know what.

Does Ralph Nader want to get Republicans elected? It's become clear that he does. There is no chance under the American political system to truly build a Green Party as a national force. At most, it could pick up a few House seats, but the Senate would be unlikely and the White House impossible. The Greens are, and always will be, almost exclusively a spoiler. And that's exactly what he wants. He's trying to break the Democratic Party under the bizarre belief that a more leftist party will emerge from the ruins (possible) and that that party would manage any success in national elections (no).

My proposal for all people of a progressive stripe is to take a cue from the Soviets. (Since many of his supporters appear to be Marxists, why not?) Ralph Nader is to be expunged from the history of liberal politics in the twentieth century except in his role as the man who got Bush elected. Everything he accomplished as a consumer advocate (and that was a lot) will now be given to others or made obscure. If he wants to be the man who destroyed the Democratic Party, let those of us who would stay in that Party -- whether you think it's about right, or if you think it could move to the left, or otherwise needs fixing -- remove him from our consciousness and move on to winning back the House.