[ThePythonicCow]

The DEM party holds to no rules, and will switch Kerry out in a heartbeat

I don't think that will fly. Election of Presidents is actually election of state representatives to the Electoral College. Each state, individually and separately, would have get to decide on whether to change their ballot to accomodate a last minute switch.

While a few would go along (the New Jersey supreme court certainly has set a precedent for itself with the replace of Torricelli with Lautenberg), it would be beyond the 'Rats reach to get enough states to go along to be able to win.

Moreover, the stink would kill them in any close state, especially if the name on the ballot was still "Kerry", but voters were supposed to vote for "Kerry" in order to get, say, Hitlary. Yeah, the corrupt and the radical leftists, but I repeat myself, would go along. But this would lose a majority of the "silent majority".

[doug from upland]

You are confusing the Electoral College which meets in the state capitols in December with the delegates of the RAT Party. They nominate their candidate.