“If good conservatives feel that they have no choice...”
They have a choice. They can choose to stick to what they claim to believe in. They just won’t. And all that grandstanding they have done here on FR and in front of their friends is the very same thing we deride democrats for doing.
They just won’t. They have a pack of excuses that can’t hold water. They want to be able to vote for a full blooded liberal democrat with an R after his name and claim they are conservative. Not sure how that passes for rational behavior. Looks just like the kind of thing the DU crowd does though. Say one thing/do another.
If they should admit anything it is what they ‘really’ believe.
It's dishonesty of the worst kind. As I said earlier, I just wish they'd be honest about it, and say up front that they're aware that Romney is a big government liberal, but that they're willing to chance that he won't be as bad as Obama. Tell me that you're making what you think is a pragmatic choice, but don't try to fool me that you're not also compromising your supposed conservative principles by doing so.
Just as in the first American Revolution, those who have the actual courage to stand by their convictions and fight for what they feel is right, are few in number.
It's estimated that as few as three percent of the colonists of the eighteenth century actually fired at the British in anger. Fully a third supported King George III. Another third, while not brave enough to fight, supported the revolution. The other third cared only for themselves.
Unfortunately, this appears to be the natural order of things. You and I are part of a rare company, my friend.
I’m voting Romney because I fear a second Obama term more than I fear being branded not conservative enough for people like you.
Honest enough for you?