at it that way, by sitting home and refusing to vote for a candidate who has committed to oppose abortion-promoting legislation and reinstate policies which discourage abortion, you are refusing to vote for an actual reduction of "evil" -- a decrease in the actual number of babies slain by the abhorrent practice, even if it is not eliminated entirely. Therefore, you are failing to support the elimination of some abortions. By so doing, you are also refusing to challenge (by the only means possible to us as individuals) the policies of the incumbent, who is in full-throated support of abortion for any reason and no reason, and even declined to oppose the killing of babies who somehow manage to survive an abortion. (Unless, of course, you subscribe to the 'seamless garment' theory of one of our posters here, who believes that 'social justice' will somehow magically reduce the number of abortions.) AAM: Thank you for that post. I can't understand how any faithful Catholic can seriously think it's ok to sit home waiting for the perfect, pure candidate to come riding up like Sir Galahad while the rest of us are laboring to free our country from imminent disaster. Sissy, I understand where they're coming from -- but the place to get the best bang for your ideological buck is in the primaries. Probably the most ideologically "pure" of the major Republican candidates was Santorum. He wasn't able to get sufficient support to prevail, and I wonder how many people