Ya I know that's an odd statement but it nevertheless is true. He deliberately did so in 2000 and he's doing it again this year. Evidence has recently surfaced, which shows that in 2000 Nader deliberately targeted swing states where he could cost Gore the election and he did so, against the advice and wishes of his staff and supporters, because he wanted to punish the democrats.
Nader is desperately trying to rewrite history to clean up his own role, claiming he did not intend to defeat Gore. The claim ignores the crucial fact that in the three days before the election he concentrated his campaign on Florida, where he knew Gore needed every single liberal vote he could scrape up.... By equating Gore and Bush, he lied to his progressive followers about the stunning shift toward conservative policies that would take place under a Bush presidency. (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/means4.shtml)
Now he wants to do it again:
He [Nader] is not coy about his motives. Just as he ran for president to punish Gore and the Democrats for allegedly betraying their progressive traditions and currying favor with global corporate power, now he wants to knock off congressional Democrats who have committed the same sins. As he put it, "The Democrats are going to have to lose more elections. They didn't get the message last time."
Read the whole essay and see the duplicity of Ralph Nader and the complicity and hypocrisy of Michael Moore (big surprise there not)
I kept being struck by the irony that Moore -- whose trademark is saying things that one is never supposed to say -- ferociously told me: "You can't say that." And my forbidden comment was simply that Nader supporters should be encouraged to vote for Gore in very close states.
and realize that if you vote for Nader you ARE, despite all those people who try to convince you otherwise, voting for Bush because that is exactly what Nader wants, to punish the Democrats by keeping them out of office.
Nader has abandoned his claim to be working for the common public, to being an environmentalist, to being on the side of the powerless. Now all he cares about is petty revenge and he doesn't care one whit if his actions set back the clock decades on health, environmental, safety regulations or that the rest of the world becomes the battleground on which the right wing wackos currently in office play out their testosterone fantasies, to the despair of those whose loved ones die as result of those fantasies. No all he cares about is assuaging his bruised ego and punishing the Democrats by helping to defeat them. A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush and all that Bush represents. Nader really is a traitor to his past and those who supported him based on his past. Now he is only worthy of your contempt.
Thanks goes to email correspondent 
for the link