This is essentially the same argument used by ABOs: “Not supporting Romney is Supporting Obama.”
In this case, though, it is in the context of “values”, a part of Ryan’s speech being about values, and this being at a value’s voter summit.
Unfortunately, the article doesn’t get into the arguments put forth by those who peruse Romney’s record and become convinced that he is a radical liberal on values. One man, not Ryan, mentioned the military and “don’t ask don’t tell”, but didn’t mention that Mitt Romney, in one of the repub primary debates, was accepting of gays serving openly in our armed forces.
Life, homosexualism, gun control, romney-care, revenue enhancements....all of those are the concerns of those of us who have not bought into Mitt Romney. At the same time, an honest principled conservative must admit that Romney is better on Israel and on foreign policy in general. I can also see that he has more experience at bring bankruptcies back to solvency.
So, on the values concerns that build and maintain a strong America, Romney simply is bad on. However, on a few other issues of concern to me, he is much better. No one can have watched the duplicity of the liberals in government and media on Egypt and Libya, Obama’s initiative, and not been sick for our country.
While Romney cannot get my vote, that doesn’t mean that he should be my primary target.
My conclusion is that I must attack Obama with everything at my disposal. Obama deserves my nuclear arsenal for now. Romney deserves artillery and small arms fire.
With us all playing a role to oust Obama-Biden, we will.
Romney concerns all of us, but 0bama concerns us way more.
As much as I dislike Romney, I will vote for him and Paul Ryan (a future President).
In a perfect world Ryan would be on top of the ticket, but alas dear xzins, this is not a perfect world.
The Tea Party is gaining strength and influence in the GOP but is not yet mature enough to field its own candidate for national office, in the meantime we must make the best of our choices.
Not voting is an abdication; even if you decide not to decide you have still made a choice. That is, your choice not to vote is still a vote--for obama.
Romney is at least “evolving” in the right direction on traditional values, unlike Obama who is “evolving” in the wrong one. There is objective difference between Obama and Romney, and Obama is far worse, from the standpoint of life and marriage, as well as the economy. To say that the two are “exactly the same” is patent nonsense. You’re helping Obama win if you sit this out.