Remember when Gore was the nightmare scenario? We voted for Dubya. I love him, I voted for him proudly, and thank God he was at the helm on 911. But Dubya was a statist Republican, and liberalism advanced. Guess who was waiting next in line? Obama. Gore, Hillary, Clinton, Carter ... the worst nightmares pale in comparison.
So far.
Vote for a statist Republican "Elmer Fudd" Romney out of sheer fear of Obama, and it seems a pretty sure bet that the next Dem out of the chute would make Obama look tolerable.
Obama, Clinton, Hillary, Frank, Pelosi, etc., are symptoms. The cause is liberalism. We must vote down liberals and liberalism, which is especially tough because of a long-established vote-ginning ethic on the left. Ask for photo ID's to vote? The left goes up in arms. The real threat to this nation is liberalism; a minority of liberals have seized power over a majority of Americans who favor limited government.
Here in California, the ultimate nightmare Liberal, after Gray Davis, was racist ultra-liberal Cruz Bustamonte. He had to be defeated -- so Schwarzenegger took his place. Guess who Arnold ushered in? Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown, who wouldn't have stood a chance in hell only 10 years ago.
Voting for Elmer Fudd just keeps the cartoon going. The "Joker" Obama, after E.F. Romney (or whatever other statist Republican it could be), could be followed by someone who suddenly makes him look more like that TV character black kid with the big glasses. As it is, Clinton, who was as vile a creep as ever gained the White House, seems in retrospect almost Opie-like next to Obama.
Try to imagine someone worse than Obama, because that's what very likely would happen 4 or 8 years after Romney or some other statist got the White House.
Electing Romney now would likely get us a Democrat Congress in 2014 and the kenyan redux in 2016.