the conservative nader?

In 2000 Ralph Nader ran to the left of Al Gore as an independent and won enough votes in Florida and elsewhere to tip the election to George W. Bush.

In a sign of how divided today's conservative movement is, former GOP Congressman and current fruitcake Bob Barr has announced a run for the presidency as the Libertarian Party's candidate. At his press conference yesterday he left little doubt that he's running as the anti-McCain, and he might just cause as much trouble for McCain as Nader did for Gore.

A state like Georgia, for instance, would normally be expected to swing Republican, but because its large black population is likely to come out in force for Obama in November it could be close this year - and by siphoning off some True Believer conservatives to his candidacy Barr may just do the Illinois Senator a big favour.