It's not up to one individual, even one as well known as Ralph Nader, "to organize a democratic movement." It's up to all activists and organizers to do so.
It matters more to me what rank-and-file Greens on the left, as well as left-wing Green leaders like Peter Camejo, Donna Warren, Matt Gonzalez, Jason West, etc., think _what they can do with_ Ralph Nader (or anything else, for that matter) than what Nader thinks what he can do with them.
I think of any electoral campaign on the left in this way: we -- i.e., organizers and activists on the left -- are the producers, and our candidate's public persona is our product of social labor. Ralph Nader's own private persona, left to his own devices, is a Connecticut Yankee populist and skilled political entrepreneur. That's not bad, relative to the ruling-class candidates, but that's not good enough for us, so we need to become capable of remaking Nader or any other candidate we support now or in the future in a way we want. -- Yoshie
* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/> * Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/> * Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>