Why dont we break the rule and go for Nader?

I don't think anything is wrong with him per se. He's a bright guy with a fair amount of political experience and 6 months of military service, which is 6 months more than Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Barrack Obama combined. He's done a lot of nonprofit work and has been pushing the automobile industry to improve. That said, he's a third party candidate and as such, is ignored by the media. Any candidate that is ignored by the media is unknown to the American people. I know we all want to believe that voters are smart, but the average voter doesn't know anything that he didn't see on a commercial or The Daily Show. There are people out there voting who don't even know what party Obama and Clinton belong too. They vote based solely on name recognition, party affiliation, or from what the media tells them to. I haven't seen Ralph Nader on TV for almost 8 years now which means the people voting now just don't know who he is. He's not in the big debates, he's not talked about on major networks, and even people that have heard of him typically don't know what he stands for or care enough to find out. Even if people do like him, they vote for him knowing that he can't possible win the election since uneducated voters (the majority), will just vote for one of the first two names on the ballot.

Although some disagree about this but Nader's only important role he has played in the last 5 (?) times he has run for President is playing spoiler to Gore in 2000 which in turn gave us one of the worst Presidents in our history George W. Bush. He has never even come close to accruing enough votes to make him anything but a throw away vote. I personally don't know enough about Nader to like or dislike him but I know he is big on ecology. Its very ironic as Gore (and I don't even like Gore very much) would have been the most green President we ever could have had so Nader actually by trying to act has hurt one of his biggest concerns, our environment. And to respond to the Nader fanatics --yes I do know its Gore's fault for being a lousy candidate and not even being able to carry his own home state. But the fact is no Nader votes in Florida equals Al Gore as President in 2000. I don't know he would have been better than Bush but could he have been much worse? Doubtful.