Straight Democrat ticket for me through 2004.I may be conservative, but I am not like the blacks in the Democrat party where you can deficate on them and still get my vote.
I appreciate the sentiment, but if you vote for the Dems you are still voting for the corrupt "two" party system. Plus the Dems have even more unredeeming features than do the GOP. Either don't vote, or vote for a third party, or write in your own candidate on the ballot (try writing in George Washington or Thomas Jefferson; if the dead can win senate seats in Missouri, well, why not?).
Also I would not give up on the GOP entirely. Remember, the system is rigged against third parties, and we have not had a new successful party since the Republicans in 1860, and they succeeded in part by cannibalizing the Whigs. If a third party representing American interests does emerge in future, it will probably do so by encouraging major defections from the GOP. Until then we need our people active within at least one of the major parties, and that in effect means the GOP...for now.
The Libertarians try to say they are with their whopping .0003% of the vote, but they are not a balanced party IMO.
I will vote Simon and the rest is history.