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Quite frankly, if you vote third party this time, you are helping Ob ama win re-electio n.

This year is different. Every election I have voted in for forty years, if I lost, I felt OK, we’ll get it next time.

There is no doubt in my mind that if Obama wins on Nov. 6 THERE WILL NOT BE A NEXT TIME.

So, no third party—not this year.

We’ll drag those GOP-E SOBs across the finish line one last time in order to save the country.

Then we stop being their red-headed stepchildren. They can go the way of the Whigs for all I care.

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You write:

There is no doubt in my mind that if Obama wins on Nov. 6 THERE WILL NOT BE A NEXT TIME.

So, no third party—not this year.

It's overwhelmingly likely that, even with an Obama win, the Republicans will keep the House. That will greatly limit the damage Obama can do. (There's an argument that Romney could in fact do more damage, because party loyalists in Congress would support liberal proposals from him that they would have opposed from Obama.)

We’ll drag those GOP-E SOBs across the finish line one last time in order to save the country.

Unfortunately, that "one last time" rationale often leads to enabling. You'll sincerely see your vote as the last time but you can't label it that way. Your vote will be indistinguishable from those of the RINOs and other Romneyites who consider Gingrich and Santorum (and Palin and DeMint and so on) to be right-wing kooks.