Coming to His Senses?
I can only hope that this means Nader is starting to realize that Bush, and not Kerry, is the greater threat to American Democracy. Maybe he is waking up to the fact that his lifelong legacy will be forever tarnished is Bush wins a close election again. Maybe he heard that Washington is aflutter with Clarke's charges that the wrong war is being fought, and it struck a chord, since he's waging the wrong one also? Whatever it's cause, I hope we hear much more of this (with a resolution to work together) in the runup to the Convention in July. On the other hand, surely he doesn't think he can leverage a VP slot out of this. He's not that out of touch is he?

"Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader said he will meet with presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry next month to discuss their "common objective" of beating President Bush in November."

Speaking of VP slots, why won't the bizarre McCain rumblings go away?? I'm all for whatever works, and I've admired McCain in some respects, but wouldn't he be an offensive choice to liberal Democrats? I mean, other than criticize Republicans and authoring campaign finance reform legislation, what are his Democratically acceptable credentials? I just can't imagine it working. And if it's done the wrong way, it could drive Nader's numbers into double digits.

{UPDATE: Thomas Friedman is dreaming of Kerry/McCain too}