RR> In terms of our rights this may be the most 
 RR> important election of our
 RR> lifetimes. If we back candidates the general 
 RR> public will never back we
 RR> might as well vote for cartoon characters. 
 GP> This _is_ going to be the most important election, 
 GP> ever.  Gun owners must
 GP> strike a decisive blow for victory, _now_.  Voting 
 GP> for an anti-gun, oath-
 GP> breaking criminal Fascist, such as Dole, isn't exactly my idea of a
 GP> "decisive blow," if you know what I mean . . . . .
 
Oh, I see, and voting for a candidate who could only win in a fantasy world 
is?
 
A vote for _anyone_ without a good chance of winning is the same as staying 
home and blowing soap bubbles. Amusing but ineffective. It denies a real 
opponent a much-needed vote and assures the other side that they face no real 
threat. Wow, what a decisive blow that is.
 
As to feeling good because you didn't help the lesser of two evils get a 
chance, I'm sure that the people in the gulags were greatly comforted by the 
thought that they hadn't elected Stalin.
 
Anyone who throws away a chance to slow the juggernaut is guilty of allowing 
it to succeed. If Clinton gets back in he will have no reason to hold back. 
He'll be a lame duck and crow about his "mandate" to do more. Worse, he will 
undoubedly have a coat-tail effect if he succeeds. When the Dems get back at 
the wheel they will undo everything that has so far been won.
 
Is that what you want? Well, that's what will happen if people vote for 
invisible candidates. 
 
We shook the country two years ago by showing that senators and congressmen 
who trample our rights become EX-senators and EX-congressmen. To win this 
time we have to continue that and show that it applies to the guy on 
Pennsylvania Avenue, too.
 
And it may buy us a couple of years to enlighten more of the public and gain 
a better victory down the road.
 
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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