Livius, some of us Republicans have been following your strategy at the ballot box for decades.
When is it going to start working?
The Dems' strategy? They CHEAT -- they have to because liberals are a minority. The Dems' "strategy" is to manipulate and connive and contrive and harvest and bully and lie so they can advance more and more government tyranny against the will of the majority.
Meanwhile, dunderheaded Republicans like myself have used your strategy to vote into power more and more liberals, albeit members of the Republican party.
Your strategy IS FAILING. Your strategy HAS FAILED.
Time for a new one, and in any case, you may be forced to adopt a new strategy whether you want to or not. The Republican party is the Screw You party, it has been for a very long time. Talk about lipstick on a pig.
The new strategy is to vote such that liberal Republicans lose. The new strategy is to vote with an eye to what you are voting FOR. I will vote FOR the candidate who, if he won, would improve things because he advances limited government. If that candidate belongs to a party different than the one party that goes by two names (Republican or Democrat), so be it.
Your vote is a gamble on numbers, half the time the number you counted on as registering 10, is so far left of the dial that it's -3, as in RomneyCare Mitt. That's how your numbers add up when the rubber hits the road.
My vote is an investment in righteous principle. My guy may lose, but if he WINS, we all win. If the moderate Republican wins, everything moves left. That is why my vote from now on will be such that the moderate Republican loses.
Amen Finny!