So if your candidate doesn’t win the primary, you’ll just stay home for the general election?
Oh so you want to pursue this argument? :) ok. well, let me tell you... it took a Carter to make me a Republican and it took this Bush, the wishy washy Republican congress we have had for the last 8 years, but MOST importantly, the realization that perhaps I am not a Republican after all. When I saw what I call the "left wing of the Republican party" push for homo Guliani, then I realized I could not possibly belong in the same party with this bunch who have no respect or any consideration for the principles and beliefs of a fellow Republican group such as the Christian right or any "social conservatives." You can call Gulliani anyting but a social conservative imo and therefore I don't feel proud to be a Republican anymore... perhaps I never was one I admit. I am a SOCIAL VALUES conservative first, main reason for which I moved over to the Republican party. I remain a staunch Social conservative and Republican fourth. I am becoming an "independent" very soon. So as you can see, your argument does not hold water in my case.
Satisfied? :)