huh...
You're running away, and I came to Illinois to work to beat 'em...
Look at it like a kid defying his parent's warnings not to smoke. Dad sticks him in a closet with a lighter and a pack of smokes....tells him not to come out 'till he's finished 'em. (aside from the obvious danger of the analogy...)
Sometimes you just have to let someone get what they think they want, and make them live with the ramifications of their actions. It's what we got, essentially, by staying home and letting Clinton/Perot run Bush 41 out of office. The country had an eight year hangover.