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Bingo! Well put- I can;t beleive I’m even readign htat conservatives are even contemplating throwign hteir votes away on a candidate that has no chance to win as opposed to voting for the ONLY choice, however bad, that we have of defeating someone that we KNOW WILL ruin htis country further-
you’re spot on when you state obama IS agaisnt everythign we beleive in, and voting for soem cndidate who can’t win is voting for obama- period- Every vote ronmney loses is a vote that goes to obama- it SICKENS me to think that obama could win because conservatives woudl rather romney lost than to vote for someone they aren’t entirely comfortable with-
JimRob made it very clear that support for Romney WILL NOT BE GIVEN from this forum, nor be permitted here.
You make the entire case that no matter what - Conservatives are going to be blamed for Romney’s loss to Obama if he is the nominee, despite the fact Romney was chosen by Obama and the GOP-e to run against The Won - and to lose large - for the purpose of rendering Conservatism politically irrelevant.
We refuse to buy the argument that not voting for Romney re-elects Obama, and therefore the blame falls on we who vote our principles. We will no longer sacrifice them on the Ruling Class altar of Big Government Statism.
We are not voting for Romney if he is the nominee, and we are going to work towards writing in a Conservative or going 3rd Party. If you and the rest of the Romneybots don’t like that - too damn bad. The fate of our country was decided when the Ruling Class worked with Obama and Romney to destroy Conservative candidates and whomever was in the lead over Romney.
We do not forget, and we do not forgive - because the adulterous party is unrepentant of it’s sins against our sacred principles.
Romney's already a loser...and the GOP-e -- not us -- picked the loser...
If the GOP-e wanted to -- for a change of pace -- consider its base & who we would support, it wouldn't have given us Romney.
I can;t beleive I’m even readign htat conservatives are even contemplating throwign hteir votes away on a candidate that has no chance to win...
Romney is the one that has no chance of winning--especially after the MSM permanently tarnashes the GoP reputation for picking a man who gave 10% of his adult income to an openly racist org for 13 years.
Let's say a 3rd-party candidate gets 13%...
..Given that the Republicans have less than 30% of all registered voters -- and many of them won't vote for Romney -- I'd be surprised if Romney gets 32-33%...
If Obama gets 46% but takes more key states...
...& minority-party candidates split the rest...
...then you 32-percenters have not only wasted your vote [voting for a guy who didn't have a chance to win -- getting less than 1/3rd of the country's vote]...
...but seared your conscience forever...
...you've permanently lost ANY ground upon which to criticize ANY big-government/socialized boondoggle...having supported a big-govt socialist boondoggle candidate yourself...
...and pro-lifers voting for Romney have permanently lost ANY ground to critique other pro-abortion candidates...
...conservatives woudl rather romney lost than to vote for someone they aren’t entirely comfortable with...
Really? Somebody (Romney) advocating less than 4.5 years ago -- three years after supposedly becoming "pro-life" -- that it's "OK" for parents to give up their offspring to "research" is only "discomforting" to you?
Tell you what? Why don't you do some online research about what aborted babies look like...and then realize how Romney is still fostering taxpayer-funded abortions...and then take your "not entirely comfortable" crap to hell where it was conceived -- and is giving birth on threads like these.