[RockyMtnMan]

What's funny is if you really look at the professed platforms of a Dim or Republican candidate they are nearly identical. Actions alone define their politics and the GOP only narrowly escapes the liberal brand as a whole.

Real conservatives stand by their beliefs and use their party out of convenience. We need to get better intel about who the real conservatives are regardless of party affiliation. I would lean toward an independent over a "party man" so long as their record clearly states their beliefs. They are less likely to cave in to the big tent centrists or sell their vote for personal gain.

I'm done with "throwing my vote away" by voting down the party line. It's clear to me now that strategy is the wide road that all may take to appease their cowardice. My conscience will remain clear and if we fail as a society then I lay the blame on every spineless jerk who was afraid to take a stand. I'd rather live in a cess pool of socialism knowing that I fought hard to prevent it than to wake up one day and realize I have slowly accepted it by voting for the lesser socialist.

[Badray]

You sound like me, but you say it better.

Someone cried to me that I expected 'too much' from Santorum by expecting him to vote as a conservative. WTF??? He ran and won as a conservative. How hard is it to vote your principles? Maybe someone has pictures that he's not proud of. Maybe he never was a conservative and just played one on TV. Maybe he just wants to be liked. Who knows?