So, we are saying here that no matter how bad the Republican party becomes that as long as it is better than the Democratic party we would be fools to vote for a third party?
As long as we only have two main parties and the media discounts all others we need to choose from those two. The sad thing is that it is the conservatives that can't get along and quit splitting the party. It happened to us in 2008, and we got BHO; in Minnesota we did it in 2010, and we got Dayton; and if we do it again in 2012 we will have BHO again.
At the local level primaries narrow it down to to candidates per office and write ins if anyone wants. But at the state and national level we still dilute to vote over multiple candidates.