Songwriter Steve Earle, of all people, sizes Ralph Nader up perfectly:
I never drank the Nader Kool-Aid. I don’t like Ralph Nader as a candidate, nothing against him personally. But he basically, to me, is just as addicted to being right as George W. Bush is, in his own way.
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