[NutCrackerBoy]

Is there a real difference between Dems and Reps?

Yes.

They both take your money and try to buy your vote with it.

Correct. But neither party, and especially not a 3rd party, can compete by not doing it when the other is doing it.

That's one reason the push for campaign finance reform was so un-utterly stupid compared to the real problem.

[NutCrackerBoy]

un-utterly = unutterably

[jeremiah]

You seem to be saying, the Republicans cannot turn this ship around, until they have the Democrats convinced we are headed in the wrong direction also.