[Matchett-PI]

"Third party. The two options you listed are both pro-abortion, social welfare spending, Clintonites" ~ BillyBoy

Critical thinkers don't focus on the *symptoms* if they want to solve a problem.

They focus on curing the underlying problem and then the symptoms will go away.

Does that make sense to you?

If it doesn't, then read no farther because what I'm about to write will not make sense to you either.

The underlying problem that needs to be *cured* are the hearts and minds of the people who vote for those who believe as they do (pro-abortion, social welfare spending, etc., etc.).

Focus your energy on them. Change their minds. Stop being side-tracked / distracted by the symptoms. Help cure the problem. Be constructive.

In the meantime, we must stand together, and refuse to allow *their choices for public office* to win at the ballot box.

*Their choices* will be "DemocRATS".

That's ALL you need to know to stop them IF and UNTIL they can be *persueded* to make better, less self-centered, choices on their own.

It is literally a matter of life and death which party we allow in power.

There is ONE PARTY that has a reputation, both here and abroad) for being weak on crime and against a strong national defense.

Do you think that the enemies of America, within America, will vote for GWB and other Republicans for the House and Senate in 2004, or any other time????

Do you think that the terrorists and the anti-war Marxist sympathizers won't pull out all the stops trying to put the DemocRATS back in power?

It is NOT SAFE for those who love freedom to vote DemocRAT (even in local elections).

It is NOT SAFE for those who love freedom to sit at home and not vote (even in local elections).

It is NOT SAFE for those who love freedom to vote for a third party candidate because the result will be a DemocRAT in the White House appeasing terrorists and other enemies of America again.

Bottom line?

Those who don't go all out to see to it that G.W.Bush is re-elected will be aiding and abetting America's enemies -- either indirectly, by not voting, or directly, by voting DemocRAT / Third Party.

Those who aid and abet America's enemies by allowing DemocRATS to get back in power will be the recipients of the contempt that they will so richly deserve.

[A Navy Vet]

"Those who don't go all out to see to it that G.W.Bush is re-elected will be aiding and abetting America's enemies -- either indirectly, by not voting, or directly, by voting DemocRAT / Third Party. Those who aid and abet America's enemies by allowing DemocRATS to get back in power will be the recipients of the contempt that they will so richly deserve."

That is over the top and extremely insulting to those people who vote their concience and not a political party.

[hchutch]

That is what amazes me the most about a lot of these folks who think they can sit on their hands or go third party and expect the GOP to come to them begging for mercy.

WRONG. The GOP will be far more likely to respond with a loud "SCREW YOU" and they will proceed to get votes elsewhere. And the third-party/stay-at-home crowd might not like what happens.

After all, no single-issue crowd is owed the loyalty of a political party.

[Texas Federalist]

You wrote:

"The underlying problem that needs to be *cured* are the hearts and minds of the people who vote for those who believe as they do (pro-abortion, social welfare spending, etc., etc.).

Focus your energy on them. Change their minds. Stop being side-tracked / distracted by the symptoms. Help cure the problem. Be constructive.

In the meantime, we must stand together, and refuse to allow *their choices for public office* to win at the ballot box."
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That's probably the most intelligent and persuasive argument for not supporting a third party that I've heard out of the Bush-backers. Personally, I think it will ultimately be the judicial appointment issue that sways me away from a third party.