Romney may also KNOW that a whole bunch of conservatives will not vote for him either. I imagine very few people here at FR are planning to do so.
If he can't make up the difference with independent and minority voters, then Obama will be elected to a second term in office, and we can hold a wake for the United States of America and We the People thereof.
It's been a while since we've spoken, dear brother in Christ. (I haven't been able to spend much time here recently, owing to family issues.) But I do recall we had an exchange on the theme, "the perfect is the enemy of the good." And you answered as if this were a problem of the relative "goodness" or "badness" of particular persons.
But what I was speaking of was the public good. It seems to me that sometimes, the public good requires us to make a choice of the lesser of two evils. And not to choose the lesser evil is to make an effective positive choice of the greater evil....
No matter how "bad" a man you think Romney is, he is an infinitely better man than Obama. For one thing, he is not a pathological liar with an ideological agenda that calls for the destruction of the America we know and love. Obama is trashing our rule of law, systematically looting the American people, canceling our inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property.
A good way for Obama to be reelected is for "good men to do nothing" to oppose him. The most effective way to oppose him, it seems to me, is to vote for his opponent.
Just some thoughts, dear brother in Christ. BTW, given the mortal ideological split in the GOP, I fully expect that Obama will eke out another term in November.
Which is the most depressing thought I can imagine.
Oh well....
One thing about it, if enough hold their noses and vote for Romney they won't be expecting much from him either and so it'll be easier for him to meet the bar. But they must vote to get the actual conservatives in the legislative offices.