Thank you for reading the post and responding. I appreciate it.
D.O., I realize my brief answer was abrupt. But I did feel that you were missing my point in your vehemence about your point. No harm, no foul. But please reconsider what I was saying — at certain times, in certain races, we need to reluctantly conclude that buying a little time by voting for a naive, misguided and vulnerable candidate is better than either a) abstaining or b) voting for an evil candidate who is also fully entrenched and connected.
People often say that our votes for Perot helped Clinton gain the White House; and in hindsight, I agree. The timing was wrong. But the situation on the ground now is approximately 100 times more dire. We simply can’t afford to throw the next election to the Democrats out of ideological purity.