It's true. Nader touches the third rails, too. He's also the only one talking about Israel in a tone that isn't complete and total praise. Unfortunately, the set of candidates that talk about media consolidation intersected with the set of candidates that have a mathematical chance of getting elected is the empty set. (But, honestly, Kerry is pretty darn good; better than Gore was.)

The protest vote for voting for Nader has already been done in 2000. And given that you don't even get to strengthen the green party with such a vote, it just makes less and less sense to vote Nader.