I will vote for ANY candidate that hits the traditional 80% mark and follows the Republican platform. Which they should all be doing since it’s their platform. Which puts a lie to the ‘purist crap’. I have said that since day 1.
Mitt could not make a blip on the scale much less hit 80% and we all know it. No one can find an instance of his having committed an act of conservatism. Even Obama was opposed to homo marraige once. Mit said he’s be better than kennedy so he doesn’t even have that.
And 80% means that one in five times the conservative votes leftist. That is hardly pure. Or an unreasonable standard.
And please folks, before you go there, spare me the ACU manipulated ratings. If someone votes ‘right’ after spending weeks trashing the issue in question, that ain’t a plus in their checkbox.
Yes.
I think the platform is an important distinction between the two parties.
I know what you mean about Romney. I never supported him or was fooled.
The GOPe were warned that he could not win.
And, he didn’t.
Still, I did not want Obama to win and would rather have a Venture Capitalist amoral do or say anything to win than the Community Organizer hardcore Marxist Islamist Obama.
Romney, though, proved himself not to be as hardcore in his amorality or spine as he pretended. In 2012 he did not do or say anything to win. He wimped out
I agree with the observations that the GOPe fight harder against the Tea Party than the Dems.
Here is the crazy thing. Romney is probably the favorite for 2016 Rep nomination. It’s insane.
Those guys never give up.
“Mitt could not make a blip on the scale much less hit 80% and we all know it.”
I have to agree with you there. Mitt was a terrible candidate. Whether one thinks it’s OK to vote for a lesser evil or not, it’s kinda hard to drag someone like Mitt across the finish line.
I never, ever said it was a good idea for the moderates to nominate folks like Romney in the first place. In fact, I’m still kind of amazed that they thought they had a winning strategy with that one. Of course, they’re doing it again this election, and it may very well cost us the senate.
I really, really want someone I can enthusiastically support, but all I keep getting are milquetoast moderates. Before you blame me, I’m not responsible for the poor candidates any more than you. I had no control whatsoever over Obama’s nomination, and I voted against Romney in the primary.