[Austin Willard Wright]

The conservatives saved Dubya's ass (including many of my misguided friends) by boycotting third party candidates in 2000. You should be grateful to them, not mad.

[Poohbah]

In other words, I should be grateful for them sitting on their no-doubt-increasingly-prodigious-posteriors and not showing up...and having the same effect on the election as if they'd voted third party.

Sorry. The "purists" opted to be no-shows. They should be thankful they've gotten as much as they have, considering that it's essentially a gift.

[WRhine]

The conservatives saved Dubya's ass (including many of my misguided friends) by boycotting third party candidates in 2000. You should be grateful to them, not mad.

Yes, I am mystified where this notion that conservatives abandoned Bush in 2000 came from. It strikes me as a manufactured excuse to embrace liberalism by falsely accusing conservatives that they did not turn out for him on election day. Even if that were the case, which it is not, you'd think that GW would pursue the generally moderate to conservative course he campaigned on. To do otherwise is to play petty political games or perhaps indirectly acknowledge that his campaign was one big charade to begin with.