""Voting for Kerry is only the first step. Any progressive who casts a vote for this unprincipled, calculating, Democratic Leadership Council member needs to simultaneously take a vow to remain active-no, to become even more active--in pushing for a progressive, anti-war agenda after November 2. A President-elect Kerry must be confronted with a million anti-war demonstrators at his inauguration ceremony. He must face a one-million-member jobs march in April 2005."

That makes more sense than the rebuttal posted above. In the wake of a Bush victory the ability of "the left" to organise effectively will be even more weakened than it clearly was last time. In the wake of a Bush defeat you could have the momentum to start moving forward.