"They punished Bush by not voting for Congressional Republicans. Brilliant move there, huh?"
And history may repeat itself in a couple years.
A circus animal trainer was making his audience `ooh & ahh'. He told him he was going to ask a bull elephant chained to telephone pole if he wanted a handful of peanuts, then if he would ask him if he wanted a banana.
The trainer whispered in the elephant's ear and the elephant nodded his head up-and-down.
Then he whispered something else and the elephant shook his head side-to-side.
After the show an impressed boy found the trainer and asked him if he was really `talking' to the elephant, and also asked him why he held two bricks in his hands while he did the act.
The trainer replied, "Just between you and me, kid, when this elephant got here, the first thing I did was slam his balls between these two bricks. The next day--as I just did during the act--all I did was ask him if he remembered me.
Then I asked him if he wanted me to do it again."
That's all there is to elections, and the `trick' works with donkeys, too.
Well, maybe I'm just dense, but I'm not sure I understand the point of your little story. Whatever it is, I think *you* are missing the point. When you "punish" Respublicans, you reward Democrats. When you reward Democrats, you punish conservatives -- and everyone else, for that matter, in the long run. So conservatives are only shooting themselves in the rear end when they try to "punish" Republicans. In other words, those conservatives who abandon the Republicans are only smashing their own balls. Get it now? If they don't learn that soon, we are all in deep trouble.