[WOSG]

"A conservative votes for the most viable conservative on the ballot. Conservatives won't vote third party and they won't stay home. "

Conservatives who are REALISTS do this.

Someone recently had a post that talked about the GOP being in 3 parties:
- Donner Party - eat your own
- Opportunist Party - abandon principles
- Realist Party - do your best under real situations

The Third Party types are "Donner Party" Conservatives... if the conservative movement were like that, we'd have laws and Governing parties like Canada or Sweden and conservatives would be an ignored rump minority that had no say nor power in a socialist governing state. Somehow I think a few embittered paleocons would *prefer* that, fitting their masochistic tendency to want to be against the flow of history.

[1035rep]

"Realist Party - do your best under real situations "

Well, that sums up my position. I don't believe a smart conservative would jeopardize the gains we have made on the courts especially the SCOTUS by staying home or voting third party.

[sauropod]

...if the conservative movement were like that, we'd have laws and Governing parties like Canada or Sweden and conservatives would be an ignored rump minority that had no say nor power in a socialist governing state.

And the difference between that and what we have now is what, precisely?

Be specific.