The battle you want to fight is long over by the time the election rolls around. At that point, A and B are going to look at the the political lay of the land, and fight from there.
If there is little to no demand for issue X, candidates will supply issue X little to no support. Consider back when most people shrugged at Clinton's perjury. If society doesn't care, it's futile to think that politicians will.
Now, we can argue about what people should and shouldn't think all day long, but representatives of the people will generally be as dumb and short sighted as those they represent. In order to influence politician behavior, you have to affect their constituents.
Any other vote than Republican is a wasted vote. Conservative is the goal, whether it is moderate or extremist. A vote for an alternative party will create the same scenario as what gave Clinton the election in '92.
Now enough of this "Beating a dead horse BS". You know good and well what most of our positions are on this but you keep "jigging" for us to take the hook. I believe I have spelled it out clearly. It is just that simple.