[hchutch]

Do not take my actions agaisnt Warner as an endorsement of the attempts to indirectly vote for John F. Kerry. Warner's disloyalty is one thing - and were there other ways to make him pay the price for betraying Ollie North, I would exercise THEM as opposed to the write-in.

But as it stands, that was the only course of action available. And I undertsand that there are consequences to my choosing that course of action - John Warner will feel no obligation to give me anything unless it suits his purposes.

I certainly hope that conservatives who think about staying at home or going the third-party route keep that in mind. If you want a politican to grant patronage, you have to be someone that he can count on when the chips are down. Otherwise, why should he stick his neck out for you?

[Sabertooth]

Do not take my actions agaisnt Warner as an endorsement of the attempts to indirectly vote for John F. Kerry.

But, they are.

Warner's disloyalty is one thing - and were there other ways to make him pay the price for betraying Ollie North, I would exercise THEM as opposed to the write-in.

So the only loyalty that matters is loyalty to party, such that only disloyalty to party can be punished by disloyalty to party

By making deviation from party uber alles the only political sin punishable by the ultimate political penalty, which is the loss of your vote, you've demonstrated what you value most:

The Party.