If we had a competative 'fiscally conservative and socially liberal' party I am sure they would win by a landslide ... and todays 'republican party' (radical evangelicals being propped up by the business sector) would never wield power again.
But our system is flawed and it's not possible for 3rd partys to be competative. Unless economic conservatives retake the republican party, and demand they adjust their facist social agenda (or lose the hundreds of millions of dollars in support), then the crazies in our midst will continue to roll on with their artifically inflated platform.
Why do you think other countires have been able to phase religious agendas out of government, but not us? It's because they have multi-party systems that give voters a variety of choices without 'throwing your vote away'.
But for now, in the US, it should be obvious to an adult webmaster that the evangelicals are a bigger threat than any liberal social program you object to.
And the neo-conservatives currently in control of the republican party have been spending more than the democats! George W Bush has given over a BILLION dollars to 'Jesus'. (against the wishes of congress; they would not approve the bill so Bush made an executive order to fund religious institutions - and only christian groups have gotten any money)
