I don't know; you sounded pretty driven at #433. And over such an incredibly small percentage as you describe, which would have essentially no chance of affecting the outcome of the election one way or another.
The Dems never had better allies.
Uh-huh. Guess that explains why their media allies are giving the Constitution Party so much free publicity. Of course, we all know they'd never do that with the Green Party.
You overlook the multiplier affect. Just too few enough conservatives carried the water in 1986 (an off year election), and this caused the larger conservative momentum Reagan had built to become stalled.
One major result of handing the Congress back to the Dems? The 1986 two tiered 15%/28% Tax Reform Act was for the most part undone by 1990. Bush II is making up ground with welcome tax reductions, but although 35% top rate is down from 39.1%, it is still a far cry from Reagan's 28%. All this ground to make up, because conservatives stayed home in 1986 out of apathy, or out of their mistaken notion that Reagan just wasn't conservative enough for their liking. Yep, it's all Bush's fault now, is it? He's just not "conservative enough" or we'd have the 1986 Tax act provisions back by now, blah, blah, blah....(/sarcasm)
Uh-huh. Guess that explains why their media allies are giving the Constitution Party so much free publicity. Of course, we all know they'd never do that with the Green Party.
Hey the Constitution party people have already abandoned the Republicans, and strategically that's all the Dems need. Of course they'll spend their time wooing the Greens. Look what the malcontented Green vote did for Dems in FL back in 2000. Dems still have to work for Green votes. Constitution Party yahoos have already surrendered and/or become otherwise nutralized by their own choice!
Big champions of the conservative cause, they are indeed.
The Snidely Whiplash snickering you hear in the back bench is just the Dems helping the Constitution Party adherants feel even better about their "pricipled" decision, while they laugh all the way to the ballot box.
The Constitution Party = one of the largest pools of vote-suppressed non-votes that the Democrats don't even have to spend a dime to cultivate, or to work for, or owe anything to after the election.
Maybe that sucking sound Perot used to say he heard was the kind of people who proved to be his followers, then Buchanan's "Brigades", and now Howie Phillips' "Contitutionalists."