OK, Col., here’s my answer. Not particularly profound, but thoroughly and painfully thought out. And, there’s probably nothing that hasn’t already been said here.
This election is the big one. We can either go straight off the cliff, or pull back on the reins, and accept – FOR NOW – a less than fully acceptable candidate. And, it will be a cliff dive that we won’t recover from for a generation at least. Our kids and grandkids are the ones who will have to pay for our wrong actions or inactions. And, contributing to the election of 0 again will be a wrong action.
If we thought that he would exponentially expand government spending and power, and devalue our global influence, and deliver our sovereignty to the UN and/or highest bidder, we ain’t seen nothing yet. In a second term, with no need to do the bidding of the citizens, 0 and his buddies will do whatever they want. And, what they want isn’t good for us.
It is our duty and responsibility to see to it that conservatives are advanced and helped to win elections. We have to take back the Senate. We have to keep the pressure on our career politicians and bureaucrats to do the right thing. All that won’t matter if 0 gets in again.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I do appreciate it.
In reading your answer, I find nothing with which to disagree until I get to your last sentence. How would electing a ton of conservatives to Congress not be helpful under ANY circumstance? Why would we not work as hard we we possibly can — and I will certainly do so — to elect conservatives regardless of who the President is?
Too, it doesn’t advance the cause of conservatism to have the Republican Party and its considerable apparatus controlled by a pro-abortion, anti-traditional values, pro-mandate, pro-bailout liberal. I can’t support a candidate like that on the abortion issue alone, and I can’t vote for a candidate like that because fiscally he espouses the same philosophies that got us into this mess.
I understand why there are ABO people on this site. It just makes me wonder why the only “any” some are willing to support is Mitt Romney, rather than a conservative. But I truly do appreciate your thoughts. Thank you for them.