[Sabertooth]

And had your buddies bothered to F***ING VOTE FOR BUSH ON ELECTION DAY, Bush would've gotten the popular vote.

Cuss words and caps. Hard to argue against that.

Anyway, I voted for Bush.

Those votes were already alienated. Sorry, your side sat out one election too many.

We all stayed home? All of us?

You don't need or want any of our votes?

[Poohbah]

We all stayed home? All of us?

Not all--but more than enough to make the price of your vote too high for anyone to pay, especially when coupled with a very weak track record of loyalty.

You don't need or want any of our votes?

Not at the price that's being asked.

Right now, GOP election calculus reads that getting votes from the "true conservatives" costs more votes from less-than-true conservatives than the "true conservatives" deliver.

Start delivering more votes than you cost elsewhere, and do so consistently and reliably, and you're liable to get listened to a lot more.

Execute a third-party tantrum over every slight, real and imagined...and watch the GOP go court someone else's vote, because you're telling them that you cannot be relied on in any way, shape, or form.