It can be argued, bert, that YOUR kind of thinking (that a liberal/statist/progressive/communist/Marxist/nanny-state big government Republican ala McCain and Romney is "better than the alternative") elected Obama. For the first time in SIXTY YEARS, my politially-active Republican mom, who had voted straight Republican ticket for six decades, declined to vote for the Republican presidential candidate (Romney) -- and I did the same for the first time in 35 years of voting straight Republican.
Now you can say that people like us "elected Obama," but we can argue with equal credibility that people like YOU, people willing to go along with seeing outright leftism confiscate the Republican party's presidential candidates (and LOSE everytime doing it!!!) are what ultimately "elected Obama."
My hands are clean. You and your mother both have unclean hands.
exactly