Did you strategy work for the six years Republicans were in charge? RINOs thwarted any significant change and the size of government and government spending was worse than it has been since Johnson administration.
The only area any real change occurred in was in the courts, that only because conservatives made it clear that certain Republicans would lose their jobs if they didn't approve conservative judges to the court.
I have never pulled the lever for a Third Party candidate or a democrat. I’m comfortable with that strategy.
That said, I’m disappointed in the alarming growth of government under the Bush administration. But, I still strongly believe Nader or Gore or Kerry would have been a far worse vote.