Ralph Nader wasn't the only person that cost Al Gore the election in 2000.

[JackRiddler]

49. It says a lot about people which they choose to remember...

Is it

a) a third party candidate who ran a legal and clean campaign, and whose share of the vote made no difference whatsoever, given that even in Florida, more votes were cast for Gore than for Bush;

or

b) election fraud by the losing side to steal Florida, followed by a judicial coup d'etat to suspend constitutional process and thus give the presidency to the losing side.

Anyone who focuses on a) as a primary concern, or who distorts its significance, has made their decision to condemn a trivial non-conformity while ignoring historic criminality. I suspect denial has everything to do with it. Most people would rather blame their troubles irrationally on some powerless hippies than confront the reality of the Evil Empire in which they live.