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Can you show me an election where a third party candidate won or didn't hurt the party they were most similar to by electing the party they were most against? Let me answer that for you. No you can't.

No need to...you provide one here:

In the elections I've voted in, Ross Perot voters helped Clinton get elected. Nader's voters always help the republican candidate. In those elections, they might have won their personal ideological battle, but they lost the war [...]

And that was followed up by the Republicans realizing that running to the left (George H.W. Bush) was not working...and that people wanted reform...and the Republicans gained the House of Representatives for the first time in FORTY YEARS!

Had 41 gotten re-elected, we would have been sending the message, "it's okay to lie about taxes" and "we love that New World Order stuff!" (Actually, I did vote for Bush in that election, though it was--like this election--a no-win situation.)

Instead of Bush 41 and his no new, new taxes (remembering that a President doesn't actually create the tax plans, just signs or vetoes them), we got Clinton who also reneged on his no tax promise and raised them a bunch. We sure won that time. Yeah, sure we did.

I sent Ross some money during the primary as I liked his message better than Bush's. But I voted for Bush because, though he was not my favorite candidate, he was better than Clinton and the Clinton crime family. I also voted for Pat Buchanan to send the Republicans a message and my vote helped him win Arizona during that primary, but voted for Dole because, though he was not my favorite candidate, he was better than Clinton and the Clinton Crime Family. Due to the weak campaign and their abandoning the Reagan conservative revolution, I gave up on the Republican party and have been an Independent ever since.

As someone from Arizona, McCain, though he was my Senator, is very far from being my favorite candidate now due to his betrayal (my opinion) of Reagan's example and philosophy.

However, between McCain and 0bama, McCain is most likely to listen to voices like mine than the faux-bama would and vote with us as he has for most of his political career. The Faux-bama has NEVER voted with us and WON'T listen to us longer than it take to ridicule us. The Faux-bama is NOT a friend of our military, while McCain definitely is. The Faux-bama will NOT appoint anyone to the supreme court that I would support, while McCain likely will. The Faux-bama WILL be a partner with Pelosi and Reid to advance their socialist agenda that will hurt us far more than anything McCain might do. (crossing my fingers on that one)

I could go on and on with examples to support my vote for McCain over 0bama, even though my primary vote would not have been for McCain. If you want 0bama, then vote for him or anyone other than McCain. I recognize your freedom to vote how you see fit, but realize that the primary elections are for your ideals, the general election is for real. You rarely get exactly what you want, but you can definitely get everything you don't want being idealistic.