Then, by all means, vote based on ‘hope’. You might as well hope Harry Reid turns ultra conservative when Obama leaves office.
Instead, I voted based on Romneys PERFORMANCE. What he did, what he said. IF he was genuine, he would have made a principaled stand and NOT signed any of those liberal hot-button laws. But, he did not.
So, for you cast aspersions at others, here on FR, for NOT voting Romney, when he has been shown repeatedly to be just as socialist, , casts your own position into doubt.
Harry Reid comment is preposterous, even for you. Romney was called a flip-flopper because of modifying his views to be more appealing for a national run. He was under pressure from the right side of his party.
I trust you are so principled that we should not have cooperated with the Soviet Union to defeat the Nazis. That would have been a principled decision and we should have fought both Nazis and Communists in 1941. Right?
Obama was like nothing we have ever seen. And we all knew it. In a different time, I may have voted third party. But not in 2012. It was too important to try to keep Obama from a second term. We are watching him destroy the country and its culture.
Some people do not recognize that politics is the art of the possible. Had Romney been elected, those to the right of him in Congress had some leverage to deal with him or they could hold up legislation he wanted. There is no leverage whatsoever with Obama. He just makes laws with a stroke of the pen. I believe that Romney actually respects the Constitution, despite the many disagreement I have with him.