[CaptBlack]

Opt out if you want. Go vote third-party in some tantrum if you wish. I don't give a rat's butt what you do. I am going to do everything in my powert to make sure you do NOT take others with you on this - and at least keep the damage to a minimum. Just as I have done with my voting habits. You cannot turn a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on a dime. The same applies to this country. That is the system designed by the Constitution. If you wish to runb off in a huff, I can't stop you. Go and run off, I will be fightin in the trenches and doing the best I can. And while you are off with your fantasies of secession or cutting and running, I'll be fighting. I, for one, can look in the mirror and like the person I see. Quitters never win, and winners do not quit. I believe that you, B. A. Conservative, are quitting. I have NO respect for quitters.

Doesn't that same Constitution provide for the ability to throw OFF the government if it becomes tyrannical? The Constitution does NOT say you have to go status quo all the way until they have you in chains. It suggests that there may possibly be a day when even the brilliant regime the Founders constructed would go wrong and the people would be required to take up arms. If that isn't "turning on a dime", I don't know what is.

And why is it, that when people vote their God-given conscience to elect leaders WORTHY of voting for, they are derided as having a "tantrum"?? I saw nothing in this post that suggests that people like BA Conservative are so much having a tantrum as FED UP with the status quo.

Why is it that people who decry the "narrow-mindedness" of the third-party-ites are so incredibly quick to turn on them and condemn them to the Pit? As a black man, while I totally disagree with the South's position on slavery, I have ENORMOUS respect for their stand on State's rights and didn't think them worthy of hatred for their stand. Can we attempt to bring back SOME level of civility and dialogue between people that obviously want the best for their country--a Conservative, Godly government? Or does that all get thrown out the door the minute someone doesn't toe the must-vote-Republican-at-all-costs?

[Deb]

Maybe some of us get so angry because a lunatic with a bad haircut, third party crackpot got us 8 years of Bill Clinton. Very few will risk getting hosed again until a third party comes up with a vetted, reliable candidate and an alternate party comprised of more than a bunch of pro-drug malcontents.

Liberal states elect liberal Republicans...no way to get around it, but all that means is we are required to work harder for dedicated conservatives in the non-liberal states.

Throwing out an entire party and national network because some are less than perfect, is the definition of stupidity, insanity and treason since it will plunge this country into ruin.

Why don't you pained constitutionalists ever think about the 40 years of Democrat control we recently shook off? Sabatoging the Republicans will doom the Constitution permanently.