[Neverforget01]

I guess I’m just wondering how anyone could stay home or vote third party if the Dem choice is Hillary...I’ll never understand that.

[Yossarian]

I guess I’m just wondering how anyone could stay home or vote third party if the Dem choice is Hillary...I’ll never understand that.

Well, that's a fair opinion. I am both of that opinion, but am growing to appreciate the opposing view of it. Here in California, the GOP now stands for nothing. Zip, zero, nada. Maybe at best it is "not outright insane, compared to the Democrats".

"Not outright insane" was good enough to make me punch the button for Arnold. But I'm angry that my views now have no organized, funded voice in the state. (To be honest, this happened well before Arnold - like in the reign of Wilson and Bush 1.)

[Yossarian]

Oh, yeah, the other thing I hated about voting for Arnold - my vote then got co-opted by him in his turn left as being support for his leftward policies, and not in it's intent as a desire to keep the crazies out.

If a vote for a rino gets used to help push leftwards policies, at least a 3rd party rebellious spit lets the GOP know in no uncertain terms that they screwed up, and might force them to corrective action in the next cycle.

Of course, you are right, you have to weigh that against the damage done by the crazies getting in for a cycle... and there's no guarantee that the GOP would catch a clue....

[Kevmo]

Why would we stay at home? My plan is to vote a straight republican ticket. Not that I routinely do so, but just so I could say that I did. If the republican candidate is rudy, I will write in the name of the republican who deserves it, Duncan Hunter. Some people would leave the top spot blank, some would vote 3rd party. No GOP candidate has ever won election as president with a split socon base, and rudy would prove to be no exception.

Now that I’m done answering your false dilemma, why don’t you answer mine in post #396?