No, you've got it backwards.
When anyone from the two-faced government party wins, we the people lose.
We lose more money through higher taxation to pay for an ever larger government and we lose freedoms through increasingly invasive laws.
You can rationalize it any way you choose, but the bottom line is that with Republicans and Democrats, we get more government. The only difference is the rate of expansion.
Then fight within the parties to change it.
Your party will lose. Period. How is that doing anything to change the status quo? In fact, if it helps throw the election to Kerry, you'll be even further from your ideal. Tell me how that's the least bit productive.
I'm rationalizing nothing. I am voting in a strategic manner.