If you are physically incapable of voting for a Republican, stop here. Seek professional help.
Elections have consequences. When the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006, Bush fired Rumsfeld the next day. Less than a year later, the economy went in the toilet. In 2008, the Republicans nominated a Conservative who didn’t want to market himself as a Conservative against a jackass who only wanted to market himself.
Of the voters in that election, there were two quantifiable and diametrically opposed groups who had an impact. Social conservatives had dreams of an epic defeat that would lead to triumph. PUMAs had a nightmare nominating process that used the letter of the law and manipulation of events to rob them of the rightful outcome. Those social Conservatives stayed home and the PUMAs voted for any number of third-party candidates and for McCain as a last resort.
What they hopefully learned is that you punish someone by voting for the other person, not by staying home. Abstaining is a vote lost, but voting against a candidate is two votes lost. In the end, both groups lost.
Here’s the redemption. In 2010, everyone can vote for a member of the House and many can vote for a Senator. When you get to that booth, you vote for the Republican candidate. Don’t even read the name.
How dare I thwart democracy by such a request? Well, all of the people who say both parties are the same won’t be getting an independent to vote for anyway. If they’re the same, vote for one. Her’s what you get with a massive Democratic defeat.
Then there’s the inevitable claim that Republicans are heatless/evil/sexually inadequate/foul-smelling and generally bad people. Think about this.
This is, for lack of a more PC term, war. While some battles are painful, this strategy has a great deal of upside and very little downside. Take your righteous political anger out on the real problem, the people in charge right now.