[Consort]

...but I have seen quite a few FReepers express that they would actually rather have Kerry, "just to show Bush, that he can't take the conservative base" for granted.

Those are your Kerry Conservatives. The Clinton Conservatives had the same misguided "reasoning".....they wanted to "teach Bush 41 a lesson"...so they voted for Perot or they didn't vote at all...and the Liberals won. If Bush loses, Conservatives lose....big time.

[BonnieJ]

Those of us who voted for Perot (and my husband and I were foolishly amongst them) taught no one a lesson, other than ourselves. I would love to have that one to do over and I would imagine an enomrmous number of the 19% of the electorate who gave him their vote have felt the same way.

Voting for a 3rd-party candidate or not at all with so much at stake just doesn't make sense.