GOP is working to keep Nader drive alive.

Ralph Nader may not think he is helping President Bush with his independent run for president. But Republicans do, and that is why they are helping him get on the ballot in the key battleground states of Arizona, New Hampshire, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin and probably several more. Ballot access fights brewing over the next few weeks are make or break for Nader, whose Green Party candidacy in 2000 threw the election to Republican George W. Bush. "If he keeps working for the Republicans like this, he will be invited to the Republican convention to speak,'' Chris Kofinis, chief strategist of TheNaderFactor.com, told me. [more ]