I voted for "work harder to get conservatives elected," since that doesn't commit anyone to vote for some of the RINOs now in the Senate. And I agree that, in general, Republicans are better than Democrats.
BUT . . . someone needs to send these jerks a messages. If they want to stay in power, they had better start tending to their base. And they had better stop betraying their country through selfish greed.
I've rarely been a third-party voter myself. But the Republicans need to get the word that if they don't straighten out, plenty of people will stay home, and they will lose. There's no way that hillary can get herself elected on her own merits, but the Republicans can certainly kick it away, and they seem to be trying very hard to do it.
Bush got elected last time because tens of millions of extra people turned out to vote. And he held congress for the last three elections for the same reason. Much of that good will is now gone. It's not really up to us. Those millions will stay home, regardless of what we decide to do, unless Bush, Frist, and jerks like Lincoln Chaffee straighten out. Why the hell did Bush allow Chaffee to vote down his last energy proposal? He has the power to cut him off at the knees for doing that kind of thing, and he should be doing it.
Some of these "make the party conservative in the primaries" people are full of it.
You should have seen the wailing and knashing of teeth over an article about the Republican challenger to Chaffee in the primary. Posters were all over themselves to attack the challenger:
"This guy won't win!!! We need Chaffee to beat the dim!"
and "Better Chaffee than a D!!"
If some of these Party-uber-alles people won't even risk losing CHAFFEE, for cripes sakes, what's the point?