[Cracker Jack]

Your question exposed a remarkably large number of spoiled little kids who will take their ball and go home if they don't get to pitch.

I have never understood how maintaining some misguided sense of philosophical purity is more important than defeating democrats. We have people of this mentality to thank for giving Clinton the presidency on 43% of the popular vote in 1992. There is not one republican, not even Paul, that disagrees with me as much as the most agreeable democrat. A RINO president will hurt the country. A democrat president will destroy the country as we know it. The next 4 years are critical to the war on terror and rebuilding the Supreme Court. I for one am not willing to help the democrats win.

December 2008 will be too late to discover that voting for a third party candidate is counterproductive.

[TheRiverNile]

“I have never understood how maintaining some misguided sense of philosophical purity is more important than defeating democrats.”

You seem to worry about defeating “Democrats.” Democrat is just a party, same as Republican. I vote ideaology; not parties.

[dforest]

Your question exposed a remarkably large number of spoiled little kids who will take their ball and go home if they don't get to pitch.

Could you please find a new line? That one is all played out.

Now me, I won't take my ball and go home.

I will boycott the game.

I don't go play when I know the game was fixed and the rules changed.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Your question exposed a remarkably large number of spoiled little kids who will take their ball and go home if they don't get to pitch. I have never understood how maintaining some misguided sense of philosophical purity is more important than defeating democrats. We have people of this mentality to thank for giving Clinton the presidency on 43% of the popular vote in 1992. There is not one republican, not even Paul, that disagrees with me as much as the most agreeable democrat. A RINO president will hurt the country. A democrat president will destroy the country as we know it. The next 4 years are critical to the war on terror and rebuilding the Supreme Court. I for one am not willing to help the democrats win. December 2008 will be too late to discover that voting for a third party candidate is counterproductive.

Amen to your post. There is no perfect candidate. If everyone said they would only vote for the candidate that supported every position he or she supported to a tee then the field would pretty much be each individual over the age of 35 running. I am no fan of McCain, or Huckabee, but if that is who a majority of Republicans CHOOSE, then I suppose that will be my candidate. I can at least rest assured that we have some agreements on the BIG issues, as opposed to the Democrats with who I have no agreements on big issues. It's not as though the Democrats are choosing our candidate. Republican voters will ultimately choose the candidate on the Republican side. If they choose my guy GREAT, but if not, I have to accept it and move on, and keep my bitterness in check while I vote for the Republican candidate. It may take me a week or two to quit licking my wounds but then I'll support the guy I can find some common ground with (however little it may be) as opposed to the guy who is my polar opposite. And I say this as my candidate performed below my expectations in the Iowa Caucus and NH primary.

[maine-iac7]

A RINO president will hurt the country. A democrat president will destroy the country as we know it.

That is - simply - the choice.

You vote for or against our country - our freedoms -

You pegged them: "a remarkably large number of spoiled little kids who will take their ball and go home if they don't get to pitch."

Those who don't vote with us, are voting against us, admit it or not....

and I spit in their faces, for the troops first of all.