National Green Party leaders came away from a late July meeting with plans to run presidential and vice presidential candidates in next year's elections -- consequences be damned. Though some Greens are ambivalent about the prospect, the majority of the leadership seems to believe that the party needs a presidential nominee in order to command a national stage from which to address important issues related to the environment, social justice, corporate power, and more. (No word yet on whether Ralph Nader might again be the bearer of the Green mantle.) But by failing to make strategic decisions about which electoral battles to fight -- and which not to -- the Greens are set to damage the party's long-term prospects, argues Norman Solomon in Grist's Soapbox.