Have you stopped to consider what the ultimate result of this attitude will be? No different than what 'Rats would do, only a bit slower.
Sometimes the best action is to rip the bandaid off quickly and get the pain over with - vote your principles (or don't vote at all if there are no candidates with your principles) and if the 'Rats get back in maybe America will learn a harsh lesson sooner rather than later.
The way things are going under Republicans, a slow slide to 'Ratdom is inevitable even if they retain power.
America deserves better than alternating power between two Big Stupid Government parties.
I do agree with that, what is happenning with the Republican Party could almost be taken directly from Mr. Hayek's essay, "Why I am not a conservative," in which he explains how conservatives, since they have no real principles of their own (other than retaining some sort of status quo) are inevitably dragged gradually to the left, and to acceptance of greater and greater control of government over our lives.
It's almost Tolkienesque in its aspect of a "long slow defeat," in which brave battles may be fought and sometimes won, but in which the world will change nonetheless, and what once was, will never be again.
I think such a view is a fairly accurate representation of our current situation, it's hard for me to imagine that there is much sentiment in the modern USA for a return to limited government, to a country where one makes his own choices and lives with them without government help or interference. There's even a limit here on FR to sentiment for such a thing .
Meanwhile, I haven't noticed any politicians outside of the 2 main parties who are serious enough to warrant a vote. I could be mistaken about this.