What Ralph Nader is Not Telling You!

Ralph Nader just keeps on running for president and as a student of politics I would like to know just what is going to happen if a 'President Nader' was to actually be elected. Nader gathers a lot of support from people who have given up on the Democrats and the Republicans and would like to see a third party integrated in to the political process. Mr. Nader is a very intelligent man and understands how our government functions yet does not see the great danger of having a third party president with a legislature made up of Democrats and Republicans who are not of his party.
As we know, our government has three branches. The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Because we have a separation of powers the three branches of government provide oversight to the other two branches and all three work together in governing. When the president wants to get legislation passed or stop legislation from getting passed he will go to members of his party in the House and the Senate to gain support for the agenda. We all remember that Bush had to get approval from Congress before he could have our troops invade Iraq in 2003. With a third party president who has no allies from his own party in the House or the Senate how would he get anything done? This is the question Nader is realistically addressing. Most member of both houses of Congress believe that Nader is to the left of the Democratic Party and the only allies he may find in the legislature would be the Kucinich types or Maxine Waters types. Those considered the most liberal. I think these people are great politicians but they don't represent the American people. They represent a small fraction of the American people.
Nader's presidential runs are purely symbolic and are not working towards a clearly stated goal of what will happen when he would take power. Understanding that we are a democracy and not a monarchy should explain the situation very well. He needs allies in the legislature to help get his agenda through or else he becomes a lame duck stuck in 4 miserable years of political gridlock. The Democrats and Republicans would have no partisan allegiance to the president and that would put the president in a horrible position to be able to govern as a chief executive.
What third party organizers need to start thinking about is a bottom-up approach to getting candidates into elected office. They need to put their focus on getting candidates elected to the House and the Senate. If they devised a strategy to riddle both houses of Congress with Green Party candidates over the next 20 to 30 years then they could be in a position to realistically run a candidate for president from a third party. With allies in both houses of Congress a president can govern and push their agenda for the country.
I would like to see Ralph Nader wake up from this black sleep that has caused him to take great sums of campaign funds from Bush/Cheney supporting Republicans, throw an election (2000) that could have saved us from the horrible crisis the U.S. in now on so many fronts, and not learn from the 2000 election and then run in the following one (2004).
I want him to wake up and run for Congress. I believe in the ideals of democracy and I believe that having more than two parties would be more representative of the American people, although I myself am a Democrat. But the strategy Nader employs makes me suspicious of what he may really be up to. I don't know what that could be but his behavior and vision of what the country will be like when he is president causes me to have a moment of pause where I think that he can't really believe what he is saying.
If they begin from the bottom-up, third parties have a good shot at making their way in to elected offices across the country over time. Ralph Nader needs to be humbled and take his eyes off of the prize because he could be hurting this movement much more than he ever help it. So I say this:
Start the movement Ralph, don't end it!