When Hunter gets more .5% in a vote then I will support him.
Exactly, Kevin. Hunter's great, pissant, but is there anyone who's not on psychotropic meds who believes he could win a general election? He couldn't win an election on FR last time - among a very conservative subset of conservative Republicans who are themselves a small subset of American voters in Presidential elections!
And we're not electing President of FR in 2012. Would that were so! As we all gripe around here that the rest of our fellow citizens are pass-the-barfbag liberal, we'd do well to remind ourselves that all those libs & semi-libs we're moaning about also vote, and we need to look for the most rightward candidate possible who can also - realistically - appeal simultaneously to a far greater subset of voters than Freepers & one who at least has a chance of crossing the finish line in a general election.
No, this does not mean we should nominate another unprincipled professional pol whose allegiance to the conservative directed agenda is erratic at best, as we did last time. Dem light ain't gonna cut it either, that much is clear. (What would be the point?)
But if we also recklessly overplay our hand, we'll alienate the less informed voters (i.e., most voters) who are easily frightened by the Dem-owned media & drive them unhappily right into the other camp. We'll consign ourselves to marginalization & watch Obama waltz right back in for a second even more damaging term, courtesy of our unrealistic, albeit quite understandable, desire for ideological purity.
The stakes are just too damn high for the next generation to allow any of us who care about the future of this country the luxury of playing principled martyrs again.
George Washington probably couldn't get more than .5% from today's voters.