Not voting, Not an option.

There are some people out there who's opinions i respect a great deal, who are calling for a change in congress. They're telling me to stay home on election day. These people don't think the democrats will be any better, but they feel like they can't be any worse. While i agree that the republicans need to be taught a lesson, i don't think now is the time to teach it for a couple of reasons.

1. We are at a ctitical time in our countries history. We're fighting a global war on terror/radical islam and the dems seem to think that all we have to do is get the troops out of Iraq, and then we can all be friends. Well i have news for the party of knuckleheads, we weren't in Iraq on 9/11! In fact we weren't in Iraq when the terrorists attacked the towers the first time, or when they fought us in Somalia and dragged the body of a U.S. pilot through the streets, or when they attacked the embassies in Africa, or when they attacked the USS Cole! Yet we still hear idiotic statements from Wesley Clark, Howard Dean, and John Murtha (among others) who think that it's "because of Iraq" that we're less safe and have to fear terrorists. What? They don't want us to listen in on terrorists, they don't want us to be able to check out the financial records, they want to give constitutional rights to our enemies who are not entitled to them, and they want to treat this war as a law enforcement issue. The world is too dangerous to trust these people with our security. And....

2. We need a third party, and if we keep control of both houses this time around i think we can finally say that the democratic party is officially dead, or at least on life support. Think about it,

Analysts place the average midterm loss for the party in the White House at around 15 to 44 seats, depending on which elections are counted — only elected presidents, midterm elections since the Civil War, midterm elections since World War II, comparable-sized congresses, first and second midterm elections and so on. The average first midterm election loss for every elected president since 1914 is 27 House seats and three Senate seats. The average sixth-year midterm election, like this year, is much worse for the president's party, which typically loses 34 seats in the House and six seats in the Senate. This makes the average loss in two midterm elections for the party in the White House: 30 House seats and four or five Senate seats in each midterm election. In his first midterm election, George W. Bush picked up six House seats and two Senate seats — making him, according to The New York Times, "the first Republican president to gain House seats in an off-year election" and only the third president of either party to pick up House seats in a midterm election since the Civil War. This means that for Democrats simply to match the historical average gain for the party out of the White House during the first and second midterm, they would have to pick up 67 seats in the House and 11 seats in the Senate. Copied from Coulter

Believe it or not, i don't want the Dems to completely go away, however as long as we have 2 parties that are so dominant and so close in every election, there is no reason for any drastic change by either party, and that means no chance for a third party to emerge. My hope would be for 2 more parties to emerge, one more conservative than the republican party(who i think have betrayed their conservative base) and one more centrist than the current ultra liberal democrats. I'm thinking it would force both parties to move right (especially fiscally) or risk being voted out.