“We do not need another Perot that will get Obama elected.”
Nonsense.
Instead of focusing on the third (ie. second) party candidates and the votes they are supposedly stealing from McCain (as though he ever had our vote), you should be far more concerned with the ~50+ million votes which are actually going to be in the positive column for Obama/Biden. Why is it that so many (esp.young) people are so clueless about traditional Christian values, limited government, the Constitution etc?? What is the Republican party doing to attract principled conservatives and constitutionalists?
Why did hundreds of thousands of Republicans help elect Obama by switching registration and supporting him during the primaries?
Since Dustbunny didn't answer you, may I give it a whack?
As I recall, there was something called Operation CHAOS fomented by a certain "conservative" talk radio guy, somewhere on the East Coast. This blowhard was so convinced that Hillary would destroy the country if she got to the White House (starting with the White House furniture and table lamps, supposedly) that he urged his listeners to re-register as Demnocrats and vote for one of the other candidates in the primaries. This would then throw the Democrats into disarray and produce CHAOS, letting the Republicans have an easy walk to the White House.
Well, you see how that plan turned out.