But your use of phrases like "siphoning off votes" and "spoiling the election" imply that you think the votes Nader got were Gore's to begin with, that he was somehow entitled to them. Clearly he wasn't. To me, it's as ridiculous as saying Gore was siphoning Nader's votes.

"Playing well with others" then, if you're Ralph Nader, is obviously joining the Democratic Party and hoping that the party's nominees will one day stop ignoring the issues you care so deeply about.

Nader has nothing to be sorry about. It was the "fuck you" vote, and I'm glad I made it at the time.

Now, of course, I agree with Michael Moore that eight years of George W. Bush does strange things to a man. I agree with that at least, and I will support the Democratic Party this year. It's a different world.