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Well, I was hoping for a while that Romney might make it. He did an EXCELLENT job at the Al Smith Memorial dinner in New York, maybe his best appearance ever. And he did moderately well in the first debate, although it was Obama who screwed up, not really Romney who did well.

But in the end it went as I feared. The GOPe now has about a fifty year record of putting forward lousy candidates. Ronald Reagan, the only really good President we have had in all that time, won against the strongest efforts of the GOPe to keep him sidelined. They tried their best to destroy him.

I fought against Romney for the past six years or so, ever since he ran in the 2008 primary and lost badly—which apparently qualified him to be the “my turn” guy of the Establishment after McCain failed so completely.

I have pretty much kept my mouth shut about all Mitt’s problems and failures since he was given the nomination. His record as a pro-abort, a gay marriage LEADER, a socialized medicine LEADER, a flip flopper to end all flip floppers. And, of course, a Mormon. I have nothing against Mormons as such, but when a Mormon Bishop runs for President, and clearly commands all of his Mormon followers to vote for him, which they do up to about 90%, which put him over the top in several key primary states, then it becomes an issue.

Billy Graham told the Evangelicals that Mitt was a more moral guy than Obama, and I think that’s true. But in Evangelical eyes, he hasn’t been “saved,” and he hasn’t given himself to Jesus. No way. At most, Jesus is his elder brother, and they both get planets to run.

The Evangelicals came out for Bush in 2004 in droves, but he disappointed them and they stayed home in 2006, which lost the GOP control over congress. I have no doubt that Mitt won most of the “Evangelical states,” but that’s because they are all very conservative. But with lots of Evangelicals and others predictably staying home, that gave Obama most of the swing states.

I held my nose and voted for Mitt Romney. Obama is so bad, it justifies voting for Romney even though he has a proven record of gay activism and taxpayer funded abortion, and even though he recently pledged again to support aborting babies conceived in rape or to protect the “health” of the mother, which can mean just about any child in the womb who is inconvenient. Because Obama is even worse.

Much good a vote for Romney did in Vermont, but I voted for the jerk anyway.

Romney helped the press kill off Gingrich and Santorum. He ran far more attack ads against them than against Obama. And the conservatives were divided, as usual. Santorum ran a pretty good second to Romney, even though Romney, Drudge, Coulter, and everyone else trashed Santorum. And Gingrich stayed in the race long enough to split the vote as a weak third place candidate, which ensured Romney the victory.

One can’t help suspecting that Romney “lent” McCain several of his handlers deliberately in 2008 in order to put the halter on Sarah Palin, undermine her at every turn, and destroy McCain’s campaign—so Romney could run next time around, which would be “his turn.” Anyone who has read Sarah’s book on the campaign will recognize who those guys were. And they continued to trash her for the next four years, until she felt obliged to withdraw for the good of the party and her much abused family.

And this was the guy I had to vote for as the only choice against Obama! The guy who expertly trashed his fellow Republicans at every turn but then refused to respond more than mildly to Obama’s lies and deceits.

It’s easy enough to blame Evangelicals and others for staying home, which the numbers now confirm was the case. But as with McCain—and Dole, and you name it—the real problem was that they forced Romney on Conservative voters in the first place, and once again they manipulated the usual split between values conservatives and libertarian conservatives and fiscal conservatives which ensured that Romney would be the last man standing—although he was the next to worst of all the GOP candidates.

Whose fault? Those who stayed home, or those who forced a lousy choice on the base whom many of them simply couldn’t stomach—and with good reason?

I haven’t said anything like this for the past several months, and I voted for the loser. But the dreadful outcome was completely due to Karl Rove, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, and the rest of the idiots who have given us candidates like Arnie Schwarzenneger, Lincoln Chaffee, Bob Dole, and Mitt Romney as our only choices to vote for.