In the close 2000 Presidential race between Gore and Bush, many Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for throwing the election to the Republicans. Hanging chads and other voting anomalies aside, Nader’s Green Party collection of 2.74% of the vote was seen as a slap in the face to millions of Democrats who wanted a government that would represent their views.

Those Americans ended up getting George W. Bush by the thinnest of all margins. Adding insult to injury, Bush did not win the popular vote, and ran to the U.S. Supreme Court for relief against a recount that Florida’s own Supreme Court deemed proper. While Bush’s political cronies did their best to make Gore seem like a sore loser for daring to challenge a close and problem-riddled count, many Americans instead focused on the 2.74% of the vote that was “wasted” on Nader, who didn’t have any real chance of winning the election, never mind ever being any sort of valid contender.

Now we have Barack Hussein Obama.

It is politically incorrect — probably even politically suicidal — to mention the obvious in a climate where the slightest hint of an offense turns into a month of volleying soundbytes, but I am not a politician, and I’m not particularly good at pretending reality doesn’t exist, so let me say what many millions of other Americans are no doubt thinking: Obama doesn’t stand a chance in hell of becoming our next President.

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