Continual threats to not vote, start a third party, vilify anyone who doesn't toe the social agenda (the social agenda belongs in the states, not at the national level)...
We conservatives always vote, it's just that we refuse to vote for liberals, (D) or (R). This concept, obviously alien to yourself and other like-minded folks, is termed principled.
start a third party,
Just what Jefferson and Madison did. How unrepublican of them to not blindly follow the Federalists!
vilify anyone who doesn't toe the social agenda
Who is being vilified?
(the social agenda belongs in the states, not at the national level)...
Wrong. Even Jefferson would see the futility in not restricting abortion on a nat'l scale. You see, every American, whether that person has yet to pass thru the womb or not, has the same rights afforded all under our Constitution, and these rights supersede those of the individual states.
"Thomas Jefferson wrote that, '[t]he care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.' President Jefferson was right. Life is an inalienable right, understood as given to each of us by our Creator." --- Geo. W. Bush January 18, 2002
Says who?
You need to read what the U.S. Costitution actually says:
Article. V.The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress;...
Congress can propose an Amendment to give everybody free Preparation H if they want to and it would be perfectly Constitutional if the states vote to ratify...