The options are:
1) Stay home on election day or skip voting for President. - This will be reflected in the exit polling but doesn't really provide a clear message to the Party.The Third Party option would probably sink the Republican candidate but it would force a return to the Conservative roots of the Party in the next election. I don't think it should be dismissed so quickly.2) Vote for the Democrat - This will be interpreted as the country moving much farther to the left.
3) Vote for McCain - This will be seen as proof that Conservatives are not an important part of the formula for a Republican Presidential win.
4) Vote Third Party - Provides an unmistakable message to the Party that Conservatives can't be ignored in the nominating process.
The Third Party option would probably sink the Republican candidate but it would force a return to the Conservative roots of the Party in the next election. I don't think it should be dismissed so quickly.
Exactly! Third Party is definitely the way to go this year.
There is no way any conservative should vote for McCain, Clinton, or Obama.
Only if it causes McCain to lose. If voters stay home and McCain wins, it will set in stone that those voters who sat it out, no matter what they call themselves are irrelevant and not needed.
5) A brokered convention and the GOP nominates the most qualified candidate for POTUS, Dick Cheney.
Or not. There are likely to be at least two seriosu third-party candidates from teh left: Nader and McKinney. Maye Bloomberg too. So even taking 10-15 percent for a conservative third party wouldn't necessarily sink the Republican candidate.
Of course, if it does, it tells the GOP loud and clear that you can't win without us, so you'd better not abandon and mistreat and insult us again.
5) Vote for a third party candidate for President but vote for principled Republicans for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and state offices.