Is it more important to make progress toward the goals of your party, or do you have to win it all in order to get anywhere?
If progress is OK, would George Bush or John Kerry move you closer to your goals?
If progress is not OK, you have to win it all -- why are you doing anything on the national level when you have done nothing to build local support to the point that you have even one statehouse?
Progress may also be defined as (1) increasing LP vote totals, or (2) spoiling an election for Bush, which would bring greater news media attention and financing, and thus votes, over the long term.
At this point, I'd like to see a GOP Congress and Kerry presidency. I hated Clinton, yet in retrospect, a gridlocked Clinton was better than Bush currently is. So I'm hoping for a gridlocked Kerry, rather than a Bush win.
And if the LP manages to throw the election to Kerry, so much the better. It'll mean that the GOP ignores us at their peril.