[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Precisely.

One thing I’ve noticed over the years: There is something in common folks on both the far right and the far left have: They are perfectionists. They believe in some sort of political utopia where we all live happily ever after.

Truth is politics is a dirty, messy, often disgusting business. The crafting of legislation has often been compared with the making of sausage. Ronald Reagan famously once said politics is the world’s second oldest profession with a lot in common with the world’s oldest profession.

I’m a Poli Sci major. Politics isn’t really very complicated. In fact, it’s quite simple. When boil everything down when we vote this November we have just four basic choices:

1) We can vote Democrat. Every Democrat on the ballot this year is a proxy for BHO and in the US Senate races also a proxy for Harry Reid.

2) We can vote Republican.

3) We can vote third party-—which effectively voting Democrat.

4) We can not vote, which is also effectively Democrat.

It doesn’t get more simple. All of my life I have voted for the most conservative candidates available in the GOP primary. Then voted the straight Republican ticket in November. There really is no viable alternative out there. It ain’t rocket science. It’s quite simple.

[Servant of the Cross]

While it is certainly not the popular position to articulate here, I agree with your options. It is all about tactics and 'strategery'. Politics in this country is simply and very unfortunately a long, hard slog given the challenges of a socialistic DNC-run media and a low information electorate (thank you government schools!).

Fight like hell for the reformers in the primaries, but vote for the pubbie vs. the dummie every time in the general. There may be bad pubbies, but there are NO good dummies (Coulter). That will necessarily mean a tactical Pat Roberts now, knowing full well, and starting to plan now six years in advance, that the next Senator from Kansas will be even more conservative than him. But that's a hell of a lot better than the prospect of Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid for another two years!

[Dan in Wichita]

Good summation, but I bet you won’t get anywhere with Freeper freedomfiter2 with it.

[monocle]

I’m from South Carolina. Lindsay Graham, whom I detest, is way ahead in the polls. I will either vote third party or refrain from voting in the senate race as a protest.

[freedomfiter2]

There are actually more options than that but that summary is close enough for most races. It is possible for a Republican to go so far left on big issues that it’s worth temporarily losing one seat to get rid of him. I don’t trust “independents “ so I’d be voting for the Republican in Kansas.