“You can’t win just by being “not as bad as the other guy.””
Well, then you must be enjoying yourself immensely being ruled by the Obama regime. Obama must not be as bad as “the other guy” in your non-thinking mind. Enjoy yourself and your purity in voting; just too bad I have to go down too because of your bad reasoning.
Quit playing the fool, a person is not obligated to vote for the republican party no matter how disgusting it is, that is why freerepublic is an Independent site, not owned and operated by the GOP, and not a republican site.
This time, the GOP went into the tall grass and chose a Reagan /Christian hating lefty who doesn’t even belong in republican politics at all, much as leader of that party.
When you get to the point that a few conservatives staying home swings the election for the radical lefty, the radical lefty in office is a symptom, not the disease. Unless you address the underlying cause, if you don't lose big this election you'll lose big the next... or the one after that. You can't bat a thousand with an ever-thinner electoral margin.
The underlying cause in this case is too many idiots who believe that liberalism is The Way. Unless that changes, Obama and otherse like him... and worse... are inevitable.
With regard to "purity in voting"... I don't need purity. I don't need the perfect candidate. But I DO want SOMETHING. Give me a candidate who has shown the least bit of willingness to pursue a conservative agenda. Heck, give me a Republican who can show that he's done something to pursue the Republican Party platform. Throw me a bone anyway, if you want my vote.
In 2008 I held my nose and voted for John McCain. Not only did I still get Obama for president, I didn't even have my integrity for consolation. Never again.