GUEST, my point was that pragmatism of that sort ("Kerry may have decent ideas but has a low chance being able to implement them") is dumb when your other options are to vote for someone with no ideas, or for someone with better ideas but no chance of implementing them, or not voting. It was not pragmatism itself that does not suit. It was pragmatism in that context.

In other words, you were arguing that we shouldn't vote for Kerry because it was not very pragmatic, when in fact every other option was even LESS pragmatic.