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I'm starting to enjoy it when people report me to JimRob. I really am. I can't remember if Jim has an opinion on Paul versus Romney, but I generally respect his intelligence enough to be convinced that he knows at least this: In a two party system, any failure to vote for the least undesirable candidate from one of those two parties is mathmatically equivalent to a vote for the MOST undesirable candidate. That includes ill-advised protest votes such as write-ins and third party candidacies. Justify things any way you like: If you fail to vote, write in Sarah Palin, or vote for Gary Johnson, Ron Paul or Donald Trump, it is still the equivalent to voting for Barak Obama. I believe libertarians when they say they see no difference between Barak Obama and ANY of the other Republican candidates. I also believe that Dr. Paul himself has no intention of winning. He just wants as much time on the stage as possible. Personally, I will be voting for Rick Santorum, if I get that chance. I don't believe that I will, so my next imperative WAS to ensure that Mitt Romney does not win the GOP nomination. Ron Paul, who can't win, is sure looking like he will sabotage any and all alternatives to Romney. I am sure that that was not his intent, but that is what he is doing. In the end, he present the 120mm Americans who vote with three options: Obama, Romney, or a protest vote (which will equal a vote for Obama).

Again, I can't stand Mitt Romney, but I am smart enough to understand that he is preferable to Barak Obama if only because we won't get three more Elana Kagens on SCOTUS under him.

I will repeat my point in a way that you can perhaps understand: If you see no difference between the Conservative candidates (Dr. Paul is a libertarian, not a conservative) and Barak Obama, you don't belong on this website.

if only because we won't get three more Elana Kagens on SCOTUS under him

shurrrrre. He's a RINO, man. He'll fold. You can trust in that. Bush the Elder was a paragon of GOP virtue compared to Romney...

“I will repeat my point in a way that you can perhaps understand: If you see no difference between the Conservative candidates (Dr. Paul is a libertarian, not a conservative) and Barak Obama, you don’t belong on this website.”

I will repeat myself in a way perhaps you can understand:

1) Romney and Republicans like him are as much the enemy of life, liberty and prosperity as Obama and Democrats like him. ‘Republican’ does not equal ‘conservative’, and the amount of overlap has been in sharp decline for over twenty years.

2) I will not whore my vote to Romney, or to the Menshevik party just because it is ‘better’ than the Bolshevik party.

3) You may pander or compromise with any who are interested, it is not my concern. But if you do choose to get in bed with a ‘lesser evil’, you are in a compromising position with evil.

4) I am a guest on this site with or without your approval. If you do not like it, that sort of makes me laugh.

Where in The Constitution was the US federal government set up as a two party system? I must have missed that.

I didn’t report you to anybody, including JmRob. I just merely pointed out that you are wrong.

You said that everyone on this forum needs to vote for Romney over Obama if it comes down to it, or they don’t belong here. You have been repeatedly slapped down on this thread by several, including JimRob himself.

Yet, you continue to assert that everyone needs to back the eventual GOP nominee, even if it’s Romney....not gonna happen....No Romney ever....

Vote as you will, but I vote for conservatives and Rick Santoium is the best man their. I am sick of rino republicans and hate the communist islamic left and have come to the conclusion that Americans have defeated themselves through the arrogance of the sin they indulge in daily with respect to God and their fellowman.
A vote for a rino is a vote for Barack Obama as far as I am concerned. I will vote for one who will represent my views and not the rino liberal leftist the pubs choose to run.

“if only because we won’t get three more Elana Kagens on SCOTUS under him.”

Really? So he has appointed nothing but pro-life strict constuctionists in the past?

“I will repeat my point in a way that you can perhaps understand: If you see no difference between the Conservative candidates (Dr. Paul is a libertarian, not a conservative) and Barak Obama, you don’t belong on this website.”

I’m content with leaving the decision as to who does and does not belong on FR to the owner of this website. Until such time as JimRob decides it’s time for my zot, I will continue to speak my mind.

And here is my mind: I would have been delighted with Sarah Palin. I would have crawled across broken glass to campaign for her and vote for her. But she decided not to run. I would have been happy with Herman Cain. But he was run out of the campaign. So we’re down to tradeoffs.

From my perspective, the best set of tradeoffs at this point is Ron Paul. Lord knows I disagree with him on certain issues, but when it comes down to the candidate most likely to downsize the Federal government and run it from a Constitutional basis, he is the the best candidate left in my view. He also has some traction among non-gop voters. Preaching to the already converted doesn’t win elections.

That said, I don’t think there is a chance in hades that Ron Paul will actually win the gop nomination. The gop-e won’t let that happen. It’s mittens and always has been mittens. I’m just hoping that Ron Paul does run a third party challenge so I have someone I could vote for on the general election ballot. If that challenge costs the gop the election, then so be it. If the “best” candidate the gop can pick is mittens, then they deserve to be defeated.