But, anyone who looks at a Bush/GOP vs. Kerry/DEM choice and chooses neither has rendered themselves irrelevant in the political process. Why would Bush, or the GOP, care one way or another which way you'd vote when you cannot make the most elemental of ideological discernment between John Kerry (Howard Dean, Wes Clark) and President Bush.
Y'all become invisible to the real deal politicos who make policy and impact our lives ... good or bad.
Threatening to withdraw your support from a team (i.e. Party) in a gambit to injure the team is far less effective than offering to contribute your support, with an alternative approach, to that same team in the effort to better ensure their success.
The former gets you kicked to the curb. The latter makes you a player.
Since when has a President's enforcing or rather UN-enforcing American sovereignty a "real deal"??
You may actually delude yourself for the moment that the number of conservatives affected by this ONE ISSUE is more or less "invisible," but I assure you the administration doesn't. There will be a thousand polls out in the coming months directing the President on just which direction is "prudent." Shame he can't just do the right thing.
"Threatening to withdraw your support from a team (i.e. Party) in a gambit to injure the team is far less effective than offering to contribute your support, with an alternative approach, to that same team in the effort to better ensure their success."
Just play offense AND play defense 100%, and the "team" ought to win. In this case, our "defense" is allowing too much yardage. In fact our "team" is playing a prevent "D" when we ought to be blitzing...