I've never been a Democrat or a Republican, and I am representative of many independent voters in the US right now who don't align themselves with either party.

We have often voted for independent candidates and third party candidates. We consider voting for the candidate we believe best fits the job description to be our civic duty in a pluralist society.

It is the Democrats and Republicans who have problems with the civic part of doing work for a civil (instead of religious) society, and boy do they ever have problems with the pluralistic part!

If I vote at all for president this year, it will be for Nader. Not as a lesser of two evils, or as a vote against another candidate. It would be a vote for Nader, because I genuinely believe he does have what it takes to be a good president of the United States.

Now, more than ever, we need a president like Nader. And this year, he would pull as many Republicans, if not more, than he would dumbass Dems.