I'm leaning on voting for a 3rd party candidate too. Maybe it's the times we live in, or maybe all politicians have always been liars and self-serving buffoons. But after having voted for Bush in both elections, I've (finally) learned my lession, the Republican Party is only a baby step ahead of the Rat party in terms of honesty, ability, and in taking seriously their campaign promises. Essentially, the parties are identical to one another.
As for me, I discovered who Bush was the day after Terri Schaivo was starved to death, and he made the most startlingly contradictory and paradoxical statement I've ever heard in my life. He said in his speech to the nation: "it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak". Imagine, the most powerful man on earth had the gaul to make that statement after publicly proclaiming several days earlier that he has no power to help Terri. Lying and cowardice are not unique to Democrats.
The President's stand on the illegal-immigration issue is simply amazing to me. He's doing for Mexico what General Santa Ana could only dream of doing.