GUEST,Bad Bob, rather than driving straight for the cliff's edge, it would be better to drive away from it—even if it were in a zig-zag path instead of directly away. At least you're going in a more-or-less right direction instead of straight toward disaster.

Obvious to me.

You're NEVER going to find an ideal candidate. All you can EFFECTIVELY do is select the best one out of the several offering themselves. BUT!! The one you select should at least have a decent chance of getting elected, not splitting the vote for an acceptable candidate who at least has a reasonable chance and will do a better job than the other major candidate.

That's politics. Even the Greeks knew that, and their Democracy lasted a hell of a lot longer than ours has so far, and in many ways operated much better than ours does. And their Democracy didn't fail through internal corruption, it fell due to external conquest. The Macedonians.

Don Firth

P. S. "Is he worth all that much attention?" No, but other issues this thread as brought up are.