>Can leftists, whether they voted for Kerry or Nader or any other
>candidate in 2004, stop flogging the dead donkey and (like Frederick
>Douglass) resolve to own the power of a spoiler from now on?
Uh, no. Who the hell wants to be just a spoiler? Bush II is as likely to be as bad as anyone feared, and it isn't even Jan 20 yet. If you can't acknowledge that, then your audience is going to be severely limited. The point should be how best to organize so that the only two options aren't 1) voting for the wanker or 2) voting for the spoiler. You're not embracing the Cockburnish strategy of just fucking things up, are you?
And spoilers ain't what they used to be: unlike 2000, Ralph had almost no effect at all on the election.
Doug