[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Maybe if the allegedly "pro-family" and other "conservative" organizations operating in this state would actually work for electing someone like Bill Simon instead of manufacturing excuses to endorse fruitcake third parties, we might close the gap to 9%.

Are you having your own conversation over there? Exactly what fruitcakes are you talking about and what does that have to do with the price of rice?

[Poohbah]

Are you having your own conversation over there? Exactly what fruitcakes are you talking about and what does that have to do with the price of rice?

The US Taxpayer Party comes to mind.

In 1996, one of the local San Diego "pro-family" outfits set out to deliberately split the vote, with the *DECLARED* intention of electing a radical pro-abort and pro-gay-marriage candidate in my district--to "teach the Republicans a lesson."

They commissioned some push polls to clobber the GOP candidate (a fiscal conservative who didn't perfectly hew to the "pro-family" group's agenda), and then pushed a former bus driver running on the USTP ticket as their candidate.

The vote for the USTP candidate was about 0.5% higher than the Democrat's margin of victory.

And, what happens in 2002? The exact same scenario that they employed in 1996.