I’ve heard that line of reasoning since the ‘40s (literally), and it goes back well before that, I’m sure. It ain’t working.
Amen, Brother FReeper. Furthermore, IF "we" had agreed to "work within the GOP" and made the mistake of electing Romney in 2012 instead of telling him to go to hell, today we would very probably be looking at Democrat gains in Congress and a Republican presidential administration going out of its way to cooperate with the Democrats on every front from government-run health care to environmentalism to homosexual marriage.
Happily, enough Americans in 2012 realized that indeed there WAS another "real option," to decline to participate in electing tyranny, and that smarter gamble paid off yesterday.
You may be OK with the destruction has caused for last 2 years, and WILL CAUSE MORE DESTRUCTION IN NEXT 2 YEARS with executive orders, I am NOT OK with that.
May be you have not much income, and pay very few taxes. but I do. May be you do not care about the illegals streaming in, but I do. May be you do not care about loss of Iraq after shedding blood and treasure, but I do. What are you going to do when Obama grants amnesty by executive order? Demand impeachment?
“Teaching them a lesson” and abstaining has proven to be a fools game, over and over. But some are incapable of learning from history.