That's missing the koan completely. It's like telling someone you're the most humble person in the room. A conservative does not sacrifice their principles. Compromising with evil because it increases your chances of winning automatically disqualifies your choice as conservative.
It would have been a better investment on Frog#1's part to attempt to drown Frog #2 ~ then use his dead bloated body as a staging ground for launching himself into the Big Time!
Frog #2s "Conservatism" will never improve if he wins the battle of the teacup so easily with his old beliefs intact!
There is not independent party candidate that is viable; the DNC and GOP appoint their representative for the National Election. We need to get behind the local level politics and work to change who trickles upward Nationally. At this point in time, the GOP has given us another McCain type candidate who does not garner passionate support from true conservatives, so now we settel for relection.... As distasteful as it may be, at least we have a better (read better chance) chance of keeping our Country resembling something we recognize with the person banned from support on FR than with re-electing the incumbent. After 13 or so years at FR, I never thought I would see the day that zotting would define conservatives, or pragmatic Tea Party folks who given two choices for president would choose the GOP candidate. We really need to quit whinning and start at grass roots level like the guy we hate here (Romeny)who started 20-years ago building for this election. Obama will destroy any hopes we at FR have for sure.