So whom, pray tell, will you vote for? On a practical basis, a vote for anybody but Bush is a vote for the Democrats.
That is why the Buchananites and the Phillipians are so vocally PO'd: they hate the fact that they tried to prevent Bush from getting elected...and failed. They have been told, in no uncertain terms, that the Republican Party does not need them to win. And it just sticks in their collective craw.
This statement needs to be repeated... and repeated... and repeated... til everyone gets sick of hearing it. It is one very true political fact of life.