Gringrich says gays better vote for Obama

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There's an alternative form of voting (Australia already has it) that some in the US are trying to push. It's very frustrating, I CANNOT remember what it's called, though years ago I helped some locals in promoting it! Basically, you vote for candidates in order of preference so that people don't feel pressured to "vote the lesser evil." For example, you see an ideal candidate, probably Third Party, you can vote him/her as your first choice, and then the "lesser evil" in the primary party as 2nd choice, so even if most people don't vote for your ideal candidate then your choice for "lesser evil" still stands a chance of getting in.

Anyway, I'm glad to know many conservatives I know are really alienated with the Republican Party for being so extremist and even downright nasty. Well I should amend that to conservatives I still have anything to do with. It's scary to me just how many are flocking to the extremist banner that's based a lot on hate and vitriol and even rage. Even Medved commented on this:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...l-bid.html

Why do so many prominent pundits and politicos on the right who embraced Mitt Romney as their champion in 2008 reject him now as a gutless, unprincipled moderate and unworthy standard-bearer for the conservative cause?

In other words, a moment of aspiration has given way to an era of anger, while hope and change morphed into rage and paranoia. Some measure of the sad state of the nation, and of the conservative movement, can be gathered from the desperate weeks that the preening demagogue Donald Trump actually received serious consideration as a presidential possibility.

In this atmosphere Romney looks suspect to many activists on the right not because he isn’t conservative enough but because he isn’t angry enough. His real problem isn’t a question of ideology, it’s a matter of attitude. Mitt can’t keep himself from looking self-possessed and unflappable, cool and collected, reasonable and restrained. Rage isn’t part of his emotional repertoire: even when visibly frustrated by Rick Perry’s boorish disregard of all rules of debate in the Las Vegas slugfest, he came across as more pained and perplexed than infuriated.

Like most seriously successful businessmen, Mitt is a pragmatic problem solver, a sensible fixer, a technocrat. It’s easy to imagine him rolling up his carefully cuff-linked sleeves to begin a process of cooperative, institutional repair in Washington, but it’s tough to visualize the perfectly poised governor at the head of an avenging conservative army, laying waste to the opposition in a merciless effort to smash the remaining redoubts of their power.

Four years ago, Mike Huckabee delighted his many admirers with a wonderful line that seemed to capture the more hopeful spirit of that time. “I’m a conservative,” he liked to say, “but I’m not angry about it.”

The fact that Mitt Romney’s lack of anger and indignation has become a disqualifying attribute to many of his conservative critics isn’t just a problem for Romney or for Republicans. It’s an alarming development for the United States of America.