Economist, Philosopher, World Leader and Scientific Thinker: My Kinda Candidate!
However you feel about Jesse Walker's defense today of the man William Donohue says "has done more to earn his stripes as a messianic militarist—in service to the Leviathan—than any American" (huh?), it looks like Nader is just a piker in this spoiling game. They're a month old, but the fundraising stats from OpenSecrets.org include one axiomatically non-linear comparison:
Lyndon H. Larouche Jr (D)
$8,227,111Ralph Nader (3)
$929,823
At 82, Double-L is getting a little long in the tooth for the White House, but apparently somebody's impressed by the underappreciated polymath's prospects.