Arrogance

The verdicts are coming in on Vice President Cheney's rondelet of lies last night (Atrios sums it up), but there's another debate happening tonight. It's at Cornell University in New York, and it's amongst four "third-party" candidates for President: Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party, Walt Brown of the Socialist Party, David Cobb of the Green Party, and Michael Peroutka of the Constitution Party.

Where's Ralph Nader, do you ask? According to the Cornell website, "Independent candidate Ralph Nader declined the Mock Election group's invitation."

Here's a guy who does nothing but whine that he should be included in the major party debate on free speech grounds, and then turns around and declines to participate in a free speech debate with other Presidential candidates that don't pass his muster. What a loser.