"Morgans" wrote:
"Jim Logajan" wrote

Clarification needed: I vote for Libertarian candidates when they are
on the ballet and the candidate is also not a goof (no party appears
immune to
these sorts). Otherwise I elect not to vote on anyone for a given
office if
I don't like any of the candidates.

So the "powerless" party I meant is the Libertarian party, not
Republican.

So in other words, by voting for a candidate that has no choice of
winning office, you threw away your vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_and_Kodos
(Treehouse of Horror VII)

Sad, but that is the reality of it.

Aye.
' Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise
from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his
squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have
wished. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking
giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them. With their spoils we
shall begin to be rich for this is a righteous war and the removal of so
foul a brood from off the face of the earth is a service God will bless."

"What giants?" asked Sancho Panza.

"Those you see over there," replied his master, "with their long arms.
Some of them have arms well nigh two leagues in length."

"Take care, sir," cried Sancho. "Those over there are not giants but
windmills. Those things that seem to be their arms are sails which, when
they are whirled around by the wind, turn the millstone."'