I admit to being less patient than you.....
Actually, I think you're more patient than I am. I think we're running out of time really quickly, and there isn't time for a third party.[/quote]
Is there sufficient time after November? That's a problem.
What I worry about specifically is something that doesn't get discussed here too much, and that is how the left views the legitimacy of political dissent and speech. They would love nothing better than to overturn
Citizens United and eliminate so-called "corporate speech", because that is one of the few avenues conservatives have to get their message out given the left's domination of the mainstream media. Democrats on the FEC have been pushing to regulated political speech on the web, including things like Drudge, blogs, etc.. They want to return to the Fairness Doctrine, etc., which pretty much would wipe out talk radio - which is just about the only media format in which we have an advantage.
What they need is one more vote on the Supreme Court, and probably a few more years stacking the bureaucracy and lower courts. Conservative speech will start becoming "hate speech", and we won't ever get our message out. And we'll also have lost pretty much an entire generation of young people to leftist thought pushed down from a hard-left government, Department of Education, and Justice Department. So, winning the midterms won't be enough. Congress has already ceded too much of its power to administrative agencies, and those, coupled with control of the Courts, would let the President get most of his agenda through without Congress. And the resultant legalization of aliens and extension of the franchise to them would eat away pretty quickly at any Congressional majorities we'd happen to maintain.
I think we've all gotten a bit too used to thinking we can survive leftist Presidents. The only reason it hasn't gotten much worse is that we've essentially been able to stymie them through the Supreme Court since Reagan's court appointments in the 80's. But with Scalia dead, we're staring in the face a 5-4 (at least) progressive, activist majority, with much of the lower court system stacked as well. And I haven't seen a cogent argument for how conservatism can survive that.