Depending upon the state you live in, you have more candidate options than just Nader, Kerry, and Bush. Because you choose to be dismissive about them because they have no chance of winning doesn't mean they aren't legitimate choices. Any presidential candidate who makes it onto a ballot is a legitimate choice for president, regardless of how cynical and jaded you are about them based upon your 'damage control' logic, Don.

It is fine if you think Kerry is preferable to Nader. It is fine if I think Nader is preferable to Kerry. It is fine if another person thinks Bush is preferable to Kerry or Nader. And it is fine if yet another thinks Cobb is preferable to Bush, Nader, or Kerry.

We are all Americans, and we really aren't as blinkered as the jaded Rove Republicans and angry and cynical "Anybody But Bush" Democrats keep making us out to be.

We didn't get down this rat hole just because of Bush and the Republicans. Clinton and the Democrats are just as much to blame. Voting for Kerry won't do a single thing to change about that power dynamic, despite Kerry being less regressive than Bush.