[Finny]

When the chips are down, in the booth...... to be relevant, an independent must decide for either the Republican or the Democrat candidate presidential candidate. Any other course means the independent voter declares himself and his vote irrelevant.

PROOF that you are DEAD WRONG is the fact that Romney lost. My and millions of other otherwise-straight-Republican voters' third-party or non-votes were VERY RELEVANT. Romney LOST because of them, and because our third-party and our declined votes WERE so very relevant, the Republican party was prevented from moving even farther left. YOUR vote for Romney, bert, may have been intended to be "against" Obama, but in function and reality, your vote for Romney was solely a vote TO turn the Republican party left. OWN IT, please.

[bert]

you were irrelevant and responsible for the tyrant that is Obama

you can rationalize till hell freezes over but you remain trivial irrelevancy for not having the intellect nor courage to choose between the two legitimate candidates

[Old Sarge]

In the eyes of certain conservatives, Reagan was a RINO: he raised taxes, cut and ran from lebanon, and gave amnesty to illegals. In their eyes, HE’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

In the eyes of certain conservatives, Jesus Christ was a RINO: He consorted with prostitutes and tax collectors, and urged people to pay their taxes to an oppressive government. In their eyes, HE’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

Which begs the question: why did we end up with Bishop Willard as the 2012 GOPe nominee? Because in the case of every conservative candidate, the cry rang out “HE’S JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH”.

In the words of Chuck Schumer: “We’re United. You’re Not.”