Arianna Huffington -- Who Knew?

This from the same woman who shared a dais with Pat Buchanan in '92 and ran for governor of California as a republican last year:

"It's clear that the damage being done by the Republican fanatics - whether in Washington or Sacramento - is such that we cannot afford the kind of protest votes that are geared toward long-term reform... Now we have seen George Bush's true colors. We have seen what has happened in Iraq. We have seen what has happened to the goodwill that we once enjoyed around the world. We have seen the results of his regressive economic policies. We have seen who benefits and who loses in the world according to George Bush. It's folly to pretend that it doesn't make a difference whether Bush or [Kerry] is in the White House. It's like trying to unring the last three year's carillon of alarms."

"...[S]topping any more Republican takeovers has an urgency that supersedes the larger imperative of breaking the stranglehold of two party politics in order to challenge the broken status quo."

--from Fanatics and Fools.

Bill Maher and Michael Moore literally got down on their knees on Maher's show last week and begged Ralph Nader to pull out. I hope he was listening.