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Ah, so you are saying that you don't want the ideology that you support to gain office. You have a double-secret alternate strategy that will do...something. I guess I'll wait for it to make sense.

No. i said:

The Country survived LBJ's Great Society. The country survived the Carter Administration. The country survived the Clinton Administration. Hell, the country survived four terms of FDR. It will survive President Hitlery.

...which was a reply to the following comment of yours in post 78 of this thread.

What I really don't understand is that you think that you benefit somehow from this strategy. Follow me on this: You stay home. By staying home, you ensure that your political polar opposite takes office. This somehow pleases you. Then, when the next election comes 'round, you threaten again to withhold support because of the insufficient purity of your allies' views or performance in office.

Incidentally, i never conceded the "staying home" comment. Turnout figures for the 2k6 election indicate otherwise. That actually makes matters worse for the Republicans. The Voters tossed them out with their votes, and not their apathy.

Ah, the paranoic smoke-filled room theory of politics. There are evil overlords running the party and they have the effrontery not to seek your input. And I can't imagine why not, with such a head for strategic genius you have.

Once again, thank you Dr. Phil for attempting to reword what was never said to begin with. Not going to fly here:

Who made the choice is not relevant. That the electorate rejected those choices, and what they stood for is relevant. As i recall, and as Dog Gone has pointed out on this thread, Lots of Conservative Republicans lost elections too. i doubt that they lost because they didn't appeal to the Libertarians alone. More likely they lost because they were identified with a Party drifting so far left that it is virtually indistinguishable with the opposition...so why not vote for the real thing rather than the cheap copy?

As i said before, the Independent, and Third Party Conservatives, as well as the Conservative Libertarian Republicans don't need the Republican Party, and spending at levels that would have made LBJ's Great Society planners blush ~tell me, is "the chimp" ever going to find out where he put his veto pen?...maybe he wants to borrow one from Ron Paul~ They and the country will survive the alternative, but The Republican Party needs them.

The Grand Old Party is not a top-down organization. There is no Nashian party boss in a top hat, with a bloated belly and an ever-present cigar. The smaller parties work that way, but not the big ones. Even the Dems, who are much more top-down, can't keep their coalition together. There is no secret cabal of Illuminati trying to keep you down.

At least you're consistent. If you can't win on the merits of the position, misrepresent the position, and rebut your own misrepresentations. Not bad, most people wouldn't have spotted that technique.

People just don't like you.

First, who cares? i don't recall that too many people "Liked" Bill Clinton, or for that matter Hilary Clinton. Second, if the opinion polls are anything near accurate (i have my doubts), they like George W. Bush, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, a hell of a lot less. Third: Like us or hate us, we don't care, but you're not going to win without us. So it behooves the Republican Party to keep it's presently neglected conservative voter base happy.

Who's foisting? Ron Paul is running. And he will lose. Badly. He will not place 3rd or better in any primary before the winner gets the required number of delegates. (It is possible he will be one of only two losers straggling at the end of it all.)

The spin machine who attempted to Present George W. Bush as a conservative. The same spin machine that is presently attempting to do the same with Rudy McRomney. Probably won't work as well. Real simple equation here: Run candidates that the conservative base will accept, or enjoy your minority party status, and more Ruth Bader Ginsburg nominees on the USSC. As for the final end of Ron Paul...stay tuned.

You sound like an impotent old man, angry at the rest of the world for his own inability to make a difference and so he loudly and forcefully tells anyone who will listen that he will go off and engage in an Onanistic act.

Like voting for Ron Paul.

i really hope that you're not a Psychologist or Psychiatrist or some other type of mental health professional, because you're really not very good at that sort of thing.

Or are you just cruising for a date?