Well, I can explain why people liked him actually. We were having another of our maddening elections where the choices are Candidate Horrible and Candidate Pretty Bad. We start to feel like our choices are illusory, and briefly Nader seemed like a genuine alternative. Until it turned out he was batshit crazy and a megalomaniac willing to wreck the US to prove a point. The fact that he said there was no diff between Bush and Gore is, in itself, justification for all the families of dead Iraqi people to get to line up and piss on him until he drowns.