Reply #31: It seems to me that

[LWolf]

this is exactly what keeps voters from the polls in droves. The conventional wisdom that says, if you want to win, you can't vote for what or who you believe in. So even if you win, you lose.

In the general election, I will cast my vote for whoever is opposing *. Kerry, Lieberman, Spiderman, whoever. The job is to oust *.

In the primary, I will vote for whoever I feel would make the best president. Period. That is honoring and celebrating the process. If the candidate of my choice does not win the nomination, that's fine. The people have spoken. That is, some of us will have spoken, if we voted for the person we feel best matches the issues.

Frankly, any one of the 9 would be better for the country than *. And whoever is nominated will get plenty of votes from the "ABB" crowd. "Anybody But Bush." Given that, trying to convince people to spend their primary vote on someone other than the candidate of their choice through the use of fear tactics (Bush will win if you don't vote for ________), is ____________(enter your own adjective here; I've edited mine out in the interest of civility).