Yup, it's utterly pathetic. The problem is there are a lot of people that are willing to waste their vote on a 3rd party candidate. Each election cycle, even right here on FR, there are lots of people that flush their votes down the crapper by voting for libertarian or other 3rd party candidates who have no chance to win and only serve to split the right of center vote.
The real Tea Party groups work WITHIN the framework of the Republican party. As of a rule of thumb, 3rd party "Tea Party" candidates are just democrat plants designed to siphon off some Republican vote. The Democrats did this on a large scale in 2010 and will be doing it on a MASSIVE scale on 2012.
We already lost one congressional seat in NY due to 3rd party interference, let us hope people have learned their lesson and don't squander their votes on Democrat deception operations.
THe first time it was justified Dede Scozzafava WAS A DEMOCRAT/PROGRESSIVE in sheep’s clothing (she was endorsed by DKos afterall)..
You are absolutely correct and we would not have Obamacare right now if it weren't for those 3,000 "third party" voters in MN. Sure, the RATS committed fraud but they would not have been successful without the help of the "third partiers".
I have nothing but contempt for them.
It would have been a heck of a lot easier to prevent Obamacare from ever happening than trying to get rid of it.