I vote my wallet; the ideals fall in place naturally.
By voting your ideals you are inevitably forcing your world-view upon others who may not be compatible with your world-view. For liberals, this means the unfair confiscation of wealth and property for distribution as they see fit, in order to cure some perceived social ill. Ridiculous social engineering, thought-policing, and the suppression of free-expression result from their “ideals”. For (neo-)conservatives, this means spreading “democracy” at the barrel of a gun, disastrous foreign policy, and intrusion into the personal lives and bedrooms of Americans.
So instead of tax-and-spend or borrow-and-spend, how about thinking outside of the box? How about neither? Vote your wallet, and the bloated Federal government, state and local governments will hopefully shrivel up to a more constitutional disposition. Everyone gets to keep their ideals to themselves without forcing them upon others.
Oh yeah, legalize the constitution, RON PAUL 2008!!!