I know someone who still calls themselves a Republican but hasn’t voted for a Republican in the general election in decades. They argue that they are still a Republican at heart, but all the republican candidates have been terrible.
They said they were going to vote for McCain, but when he picked palin, they couldn’t vote for that either.
This applies down ballot. They do vote in the GOP primaries, but their preferred candidates almost always lose.
Hmmm, when you get down to it, we look like the flying spaghetti monster. Guess we are made in his image.