“If I were a liberal, I would immediately change parties the minute I heard one of these people open their mouths. They sound unbelievably stupid. Not just the way they speak but the words they speak.”

you are a conservative. have you not thought about changing parties when any of “your people” open their mouths? they also sound unbelievably stupid.

Personally, I voted for the republicans in the last two presidential elections ONLY because the democrat alternatives were just too far removed from my political philosophies to support (and in the case of Kerry, he was just too creepy). As someone who was once opposed to the idea that a strong third-party candidate was a bad idea because it meant someone could be elected President of the United States with as much as 66% of the vote against him or her, I now welcome the prospect. A third-party candidate would have to be placed midway between the extremists in both of the main parties to have any chance of winning, and that’s okay with me.

But please don’t keep making the mistake of automatically assuming conservative=republican/liberal=democrat.

Historically, the vast majority of Americans have held BOTH conservative and liberal views, depending on the issue, and to assume Americans are all one way or the other is an overly simplistic belief.