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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (59652)	8/12/2004 6:59:44 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

We've all voted for the lesser evil on election day. Indeed. That seems so obvious to me, too. And if the choice is between someone with whom we are philosophically attuned and someone with whom we aren't, we choose the former over the latter, character questions notwithstanding. Ergo, the character issues don't matter in the grand scheme of things. When I posed the question of why this matters I got a lot of responses all of them starting out with little lectures about what is wrong with what Kerry is alleged to have done as though recognition of that somehow would automatically obviate a Kerry vote. But it doesn't. When you're voting, other things are more compelling. Most of the argument about this is about whether or not the allegations are true or not--who is lying. It makes for an amusing food fight, but that's a lot of energy to expend on something that, in the end, is just a footnote in the election, a curiosity given that even if the allegations are true, so what.