And if we conservatives continue to believe this screed the GOP will happily lead us to their socialist utopia. It is way past time to vote principle not party - I am a Christian, a conservative and former Republican in that order. Vote for the party of principle: I hate to break it to you, but most Americans have never heard, and will never hear, of the Constitution Party.
Look at how well Kerry did in Virginia & Tennessee - do you think people in Virginia & Tennessee like Kerry?
Let me buy you a clue: most Americans are going to vote for whoever the media says is winning. They don't pay attention to the issues as we do, but they will go vote anyway. They'll vote for whoever the media says is winning, or whoever they think looks friendlier, or whoever is promising them what they think they want that day.
Or maybe the person they think will protect the U.S. from terrorists best, or protect their job best.
In most elections, however, you have only 2 real choices: you can vote for one, or you can vote against the other - which has the effect of voting for the first.
I hate to break it to you, but most Americans have never heard, and will never hear, of the Constitution Party.
Historically about every 50 years or so the major parties get a shakeup in this country.
Pre-Constitution
Anti-Federalist Party
Federalist Party
Pre-Jackson
Democratic-Republican Party (also known as "Anti-Federalist", "Jeffersonian", "Jacksonian" or simply "Republican")
Federalist Party
Jacksonian Era
Anti-Masonic
National Republican
Whig
Civil War
Free Soil
Know-Nothing Party (officially called the American Party)
Liberty Party
Gilded Age
Greenback
Populist
Progressive Era
Fusion Party (primarily in the northern states)
Progressive (including the "Bull Moose" party)
Social Democratic Party
Socialist Party of America
Later 20th century
America First Party, whose peak came in 1944 and is not affiliated with the current America First Party
Union Party
Dixiecrat (also known as States' Rights Democratic)
American Independent Party: the party under Alabama Governor George Wallace in the 1968 and 1972 elections
Citizens Party (1980-1984)
Perhaps this will help:
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2023620-h&templatename=/article/article.html It is past time for a shakeup - the Democratic party is imploding and the GOP is moving farther left every year to take their place. The future belongs to the LP and the CP.