We cannot buy time with this approach. Every single election, from now on, it will be made to seem only MORE urgent that we elect the supposed lesser of two evils for short-term gain...and it will still fail to accomplish even the intended short-term goal. As I said in a reply to tones earlier:
tones, you repeatedly forget that the purported strategy is infiltrating and CHANGING the GOP, not supporting it as it stands today! You're panicking right now just like you were before you voted for McCain. Supporting neocons only reinforces the idea that they can get away with "same old, same old" perpetually, which will destroy any chance of fixing the party. You're blinded by the apparent "urgency of now," much like the liberal base was in 2005 and 2006, and they elected just any old Democrats to end the wars and restore civil liberties...but the Dems did NOT do what they were elected to do, and neither will Scott Brown if elected.
What you have to understand is that from this point on, everything will not only remain as dire and urgent as it is today, but every single election it will only get worse and even more seemingly urgent that we stop XYZ candidate or piece of particular legislation at all costs. There will NEVER, ever be a "break" where we can "safely" support liberty candidates without worrying about some horrendous and eternal piece of legislation being rammed down our throats. From the standpoint of the political establishment, the entire point of this ever-escalating sense of urgency is to get us to panic and support the same old assholes, every single time. This is the tactic the establishment has always used to maintain both the two-party system and their stranglehold over it, and you're falling for it. I warned you about this in 2008, I'm warning you about this now, and I have little doubt I'll be shouting the same warning to you later this year, in 2012, 2014, 2016, ad infinitum. By the way, voting for Scott Brown (and accomplishing NOTHING in the process) is also a great way to tell the establishment, "Hey, keep giving us the same panicked choice, because we'll fall for the same trick every time."
(Of course, all of this ignores the likelihood of widespread election fraud in the first place. I imagine elections are at least somewhat honest in some areas, otherwise Paul would likely have been gone long ago, but I have pretty much zero faith in the system as a whole.)
