Yeah, I know that strategy. But I've never seen it work well. there always seems to be some more pressing issue that arises that makes a vote for the "lesser of evils" imperative no matter what has been done in previous terms. Read back on this thread and see how many posts are already saying we should support Bush even if he does support and sign an AW ban and other leftist stuff because the overall conservative issues are more important and make it O.K. for him to have pushed a liberal and anti-constitutional agenda, created a bigger governmnet, more government regulations of our lives, bigger pending and greater deficits, more globalism, etc. (i.e. watch the probable flames for this statement, or similar statements by other posters)
Maybe I'm just becoming jaded from age, but I haven't sen any genuine conservative gains in my lifetime; all I've seen is the gradual shift of what is called conservativism (in politics) toward the left so that what we now consider conservative would have been considered liberal, even communistic, when I was young. Still ... I will vote for those who represent what I believe in, not the ones who try to convince me they are the lesser of evils. I know I am probably the only voter who feels and votes this way, but I have a clean concience and I feel no obligation to support those who go against my beliefs simply because I voted for them in spite of my beliefs.