[Luis Gonzalez]

That (political) battlefield is wherever the GOP is battling the DNC...unless of course you can show me any Libertarian, libertarian, Constitution Party, or any other fringe political party candidate at ALL who has ever been elected to any political office of any significance.

You have this notion that you can best win the battle by leaving the battlefield.

Your leaving the GOP because you don't like the current choice of candidate moves the Party to the center in an attempt to make up your absent vote, your only achievement is a temporary victory by the DNC, a decided move to the center by the GOP, and your own expulsion to the unreliable, irrelevant fringe.

Fight the battle internally; your opinion would be more credible, and your vote more valued if it didn't spend half its life threatening to hurt rather than support.

[hispanichoosier]

Your leaving the GOP because you don't like the current choice of candidate moves the Party to the center in an attempt to make up your absent vote

What you don't seem to understand is that people of faith--like myself--believe that voting for a leftist candidate is material cooperation with evil. We cannot do it because it is sinful. It is not so much a statement to party leaders as an attempt to avoid sin.

[Paladin2]

".unless of course you can show me any Libertarian, libertarian, Constitution Party, or any other fringe political party candidate at ALL who has ever been elected to any political office of any significance."

Well, there's always T.R.