Tim Noah at Slate doesn't understand why people are so upset that Ralph Nader is running for president. "Third-party candidates are people, too," he writes in the tag-line to his piece. Thing is, Noah answers his own question: a major reason why people are upset that Nader's running for president is that he isn't a third-party candidate but rather an unaligned independent.
Indeed, Nader won't even be seeking the nomination of the Green party, as he's done in the past. Consequently, his quixotic run isn't going to help build up the infrastructure of any non-major political party, which might be a justifiable objective in itself. Rather, Nader's candidacy is about aggrandising just one thing: his own ego.
