PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2012: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH!

The moment of truth won't be a moment. It will come gradually as conservatives recognize slowly and painfully the consequences of handing a landslide victory to a statist liberal registered as a Republican. As they helplessly flail while their choice competently and ruthlessly marches forward in the coming years advancing and implementing his "Republican" vision of nationalized health care, "planned" parenthood, and punishment for those who refuse to accommodate open homosexuality in their midst.

They'll watch helplessly as he proceeds to appoint liberal judges and flirts with a world-wide regulatory "solution" to "global warming." That's what Romney has been, is, and will be -- and conservative Republicans here who so joyfully put him in office will have absolutely zero to say about it, and zero threat of retaliation. They have proved themselves again willing to vote for anything with an R on it, and threats here of "We'll primary him in 2016" are hilariously, sickeningly funny.

As Romney, upheld by a majority coalition of Democrats and liberal Republicans emboldenedby their President's solid landslide win in 2012 (ABO will be long forgotten), steadily advances government, more and more government on the back of the Republican party, then maybe the "moment of truth" will dawn that voting for amoral liberals is always a mistake.

A Republican Congress, grown stronger in 2012 and 2014, would be more effective at halting increasing government and fighting Obama, who is loathed and has to rely on phony support, as the election will prove. He would be a weak president; Romney would be entirely too strong.

Moment of truth. For the first time of voting straight Republican in every presidential election since '76, I will reject the Republican at the top of the ticket. I will vote small-government Republican the rest of the ticket. My vote for a third party presidential candidate WILL COUNT, however small, toward weakening the winner's mandate, and all I care about is making the winner, whoever he is, as weak as possible. The weaker he is, the stronger Republican conservatives will be against him.

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