By Courtney Goodloe

Well - Nader - again.  Bill Murray should play him in a Groundhog Day sequel.  Do you need a sequel or does the movie just spontaneously recreate itself?  Jeez.

What a way to totally obliterate a legacy.  Much respect for that by the way - but when you have to go back thirty years to reference your other-than-gadfly accomplishments - well either start adding to your resume or get off the stage.

On Meet the Press yesterday, he spoke of the 'right to run'  - yeah well people have the right to make movies, write books, make music - and the public has the right to not buy a ticket - well, you get the point.

Like a lot of pols are learning this season - you missed your moment.  And no amount of repeats are going to make you the Third Party messiah.  He seems to have missed the lecture on movements - people actually have to follow you.  The very premise of your run requires same -  we haven't and we won't.  He thinks he can piggy-back the surge in political participation which he nearly murdered.

Nader misses the true fount of our national resentment.  More than his being an accomplice to the Gore mugging - more than the condescending tone - more than the uneasy feeling we get in any arena when someone keeps missing the graceful exit -  America resents late-coming, bypass an entire process kinda candidates.

So now after the earliest starting Presidential primary processes ever - after we and the candidates have put in all the hard work, of dialogue (Nader you are not excused from this), volunteering, reading, Dante's seven levels of debate hell  - oh yeah, and SURVIVING THE BUSH YEARS - he pops up now - much like the annoying latest-arriving party guest.

Sir, do you know why you come across as completely inauthentic and self-interested?  It is because you have been remarkably muted over the last seven years of our country's near decimation.  You'd seasonally stick your head out of the hole - much like Pennsylvania bellwether animal - just to remind us of your 'potential' to up-end the process.

No Sir, the last few years you did not spend that time actually building a movement or doing something valuable like having a shadow government - answering all the administration BS loud and clear at every turn.  No - after you surface just to run - you go right back into your hole with no acknowledgment of the storm vortex you created - oh, but with the perfunctory, occasional gracing us with your presence.

For all of the bashing of our system - although admittedly, much of it deserved - at least the people you malign participate consistently.  All the 'revolution' you tout - would actually require your hanging round for more than the blasts of attention you so seem to crave.  Oh wait - definitely don't want to encourage your hanging 'round.

Go back into your hole, please.