>(C) Right-wing Greens (e.g., Green advocates of a "safe state"
>strategy) and (D) tactical supporters of some Green Party candidates
>(e.g., Manning Marable) have rationales different from the one held
>by (A) and (B). For (D), the main rationale for supporting Ralph
>Nader in 2000, for instance, must have been "sending a message" of
>protest to the DLC wing of the Democratic Party, without necessarily
>believing in (A) and (B)'s rationale, though (D) may have had other
>rationales that come close to (A) and (B)'s. (C) tends to vacillate
>between (D) on one hand and (A) and (B) on the other hand.
(A), (B), (C), (D)...this is verging on self-parody. But self-parody would require self-reflection and self-doubt, which are out of the question, I know.
Doug