>You can bet I will vote third party next time.
Me too. This election is the last election in which I plan on voting for the Republican party unless two things happen in the next four years.
(1) Significant progress is made towards an amendment banning gay marriage.
(2) Significant progress is made towards stopping illegal immigration either by militarzing the border or by serious fines on schools, hospitals, employers, and landlords within the US who transact with illegals.
(An aside: what makes me a little nervous about militarizing the border is this...if things keep going they way they are going in America, our children's children may find themselves wanting to sneak *out*.)
If we're going down the toilet anyway, it might as well be under the direction of President Hillary vs. a RINO whose flawed policies get blamed on conservatives.
(Yeah, taxes and spending are important to me, but Bush - with his token 3% tax cut and record deficit spending - has proven to be no better than a libdem on those issues.)
Thass ok. When the next election comes along, you'll respond the same way to the same arguments and emergencies. The only way is to quit cold turkey.