Party nominee in  1996  and  2000 , and as an independent candidate in  2004  and  2008 . Some people claim that Nader acted as a  spoiler  in the  2000 U.S. presidential election , while others, including Nader, dispute this claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader Posted by vijay setia at Sunday, April 01, 2012 Email