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[Happy Monkey]

I never said it made me happy. In fact, I want the system to be reformed. Unfortunately, the help the Republicans were giving to Nader was not in assistance to any idea of Democracy - it was gaming the two-party system. If the Democrats didn't respond in kind, their moral victory could easily result in political failure, and that is a path they have traveled quite often. The Republican attutude is:

“It’s time now for the American people to understand that we (the GOP) are a permanent majority.”
Tom DeLay, August 18, 2004

I understand the frustration of third parties, who will rightfully say that that is the combined attitude of both D and R to any third party. But at this point in time, the Republicans are trying very hard to change a two party system into a one party system, and I consider that to be a bigger danger than the continuing difficulty of third parties to enter. Four years ago, I voted Libertarian, hoping to encourage the development of more parties. Right now, if the one party that actually has a chance to interfere with the dominant party doesn't use the legal tools at their disposal, we risk the opposite happening.