Run Ralph, run! This election is going to be very tight, and McCain needs all the help he can get.
I agree that Ralph should run and split the liberal vote. Usually, the strongest third-party presidential candidate takes votes from the party who has the presidency during that election. In 2000, when Clinton was President, Nader split the anti-Bush vote. Nader got 3%, helping Bush win. In 1992, when President George H.W. Bush ran for re-election, many Republicans voted for Perot. Perot got 19% and helped Clinton win. In 1976, when President Ford ran, many conservatives voted for Eugene McCarthy, an independent; Lestor Maddox, of the American Independent Party; and MacBride, a Libertarian. This helped Carter win with only 49.95% of the popular vote. (Few people know how close that election was. The last time a Democrat was elected president with a majority of the popular vote was 1964.) In 1968, when Johnson was President, George Wallace ran as an independent, and the anti-Nixon vote split, helping Nixon win with about 45%.
Since we have a republican president, the strongest third-party candidate will be a conservative, unless a well-known Green Party candidate, Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney, runs. I hope that all voters who are anti-liberal will unite and help the Republican.