But that's not true. There are always other options. They are immediately derided as "unelectable", but that's only because not enough people consider them.
Sooner or later, the sea change is going to have to happen in the conservative movement and the Republican Party is going to have to lose its base if we are ever going to see real change in this country.
If enough good conservatives like Mark Levin finally make the move they've been threatening to make -- in other words, take actual, relevant action -- a third party conservative movement will threaten the Republican Party's power and influence to the point where it will have to change or die. It won't happen a single moment before it's forced to change.
Effectively.
I can vote for Bob McRomney or the communist, effectively. That better?
Refer to innumerable comments here and everywhere, on the consequences of third-party voting and staying home.
None of which was the option chosen by the men who forged a nation here. Which was the point I was making.