I am much less enamored of unrestricted immigration than JPod. I wrote a book about it (and many other things) twenty years ago (The Way of the WASP). But let me endorse his comments on the third party temptation. New York’s Conservative Party is often held up as a model of rebellious action. But it existed only because New York state permits cross endorsements (running on more than one line), and there was a potent Liberal Party, originally a left anti-Communist spin-off from the American Labor Party, which pulled the whole spectrum leftward. In any other political situation, you are almost sure to shoot yourself in the foot; often, you shoot yourself in the foot even in the New York scenario (e.g., suppose my friend, George Marlin, Conservative candidate for Mayor of NYC in 1993, had peeled off enough Giuliani voters to re-elect David Dinkins?).