But a vote for the Greens is a vote for Republicans.

The Republicans back the greens.  They pay the money for morons who vote and run as greens.  These idiots just ignore the money source and think that they are virtuous.  In point of fact, they are idiots.

Eric Prince, head of Blackwater, has funded green Party candidates.  Is Prince a Green?  Of course not.  He is a Republican.  He pays money to split the opposition.

So, be a green, and that's just the same as being a republican.

First, I reject your premise that Hillary is unstoppable.

But even if she were, you should vote Democrat in the general election. At least the corporate-friendly moderate judges Hillary would appoint would be pro-choice.

Politically at least.  They do a pretty good job of keeping their eyes on the prize, staying united, keeping their internal squabbles out the media, and working out their disputes within the party.

On the left it seems many are more inclined to pee and moan and to want to run off torpedoing the Party in the process.  This happened in 2000 and we got Bush instead of Gore.  But activists like Nader argued at the time that wasn't any difference between the two men.  Real smert.

Nader deserves scorn for his stupidity, not more support.

From 2000:

"I have several reasons I am voting for him, but to avoid a long email, I'll just mention two very important ones. I am voting for Nader because he sees the problems with these megacorp powers, and I think he will fight for the people (Gore and Bush are both Valenti-like corporate puppets)."

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/7

I wonder if that poster still thinks Gore is a corporate puppet?

From Jim Hightower supporting Nader in PBS ( in an interview debate  with Paul Wellstone advocating Gore):

"But now I look up at my national party, and the Al Gores and the Democratic Leadership Council; they've taken off the old Sears Roebuck work boots and strapped on the Guccis and Puccis that the Republicans strut around in."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/ july-dec00/nader_10-24.html

Thinks anyone cares if Gore wears Gucci's these days?

I didn't say anything about how I would vote, or who I would even support. Maybe the Green Party should take every Republican dime they can get, and then have the candidate pull out at the last minute.

The point is, by registering as a Green now, it would get someone's notice. Suppose we all just do that Monday? Then we keep on doing what we're doing, except we collect money from Republicans.

By the way, I was personally the first political blogger to dredge up an actual photo of a College Republican at a Nader display table, which published in a student newspaper. In 2004, I also was first to call attention to a PDF of an official notice, complete with official Republican letterhead, sent by a local Republican committee asking people to donate to Nader. And they did do that. And Nader finally even acknowledged it. I posted it all at the now-gone repentantnadervoter.org, which some here will even remember, perhaps. Strange days.

There is one, and only one, reasonable way to circumvent the spoiler effect (I invented that term and promoted it heavily after '04), and I explained that

HERE

Unfortunately, so few people voted that a multiple tie occurred, so I gave up going to the final runoff. (Thanks everyone who voted!!! And every one that did included Dennis Kucinich!)

Some people are fanatical about IRV or Condorcet voting. But in any race involving four or more candidates, these require complex, and more to the point, insecure, counting procedures. And trust me, it always happens; people will still give one first rank vote to the strongest "compromise" candidate. So the spoiler effect does not go away at all.