"Nancy Pelosi seems to be pretty much in favor of anything that hurts Republicans, and Ken Mehlman is in favor of anything that works against Democrats."
That's just moral equivalence and a cop-out. Mehlman does not equal Pelosi on any reasonable standard of measurement. I agree that Pelosi does appear to oppose just for the sake of opposition, but I do not agree that Mehlman is equally guilty of that alleged crime and it simply won't do for Peggy to make the assertion wholly unsupported by any facts.
Look, Hastert has played the buffoon recently, Frist looks ineffective and hapless given the nature of the Senate and Bush has continued to struggle to articulate any sort of vision for the remaining years of his Administration, appearing to stumble from one fire to the next. I'm not happy with the national GOP.
But the alternative is simply unthinkable to anyone who cares. The moderate dems like Lieberman are being run right out of that party. The nutroots like Kos and Atrios increasingly pull the policy strings of the only viable political entity other than the GOP and, if I have anything to say about, I won't be governed by politicians who are in thrall to the extreme left wing kooks.
Nobody has to like it and there are ways to try and improve the GOP, but voting third party and helping to elect a Dem Congress and Hilary in 2008 ain't the way.
Both houses, and She-who-must-not-be named in the White House, since Soros and the MSM bought it for her, and she pulls all troops out of Iraq and Afganistan, to send them on "humanitarian" missions to other third world toilets. She and and the loony left Congress decide that there are too many guns in the US, and you have too much expendable income if you can afford to buy anything past necessities.
The Feds now have a mandate to nationalize health care, since 50,000,000 Mexicans have just stampeded the Border, with GWB's blessing and support carrying every Third world disease the US worked for a century to eliminate.
The repukes are wandering around, what few remain, still taking bribes, and acting like everything is generally OK, paying lip service to small government, and promising that they will do it right next time.
Ready to vote Third Party yet?