Ditto, except that I am Jewish. My hatred of Obama and his ilk and their goal of “transforming America” and my fear of what a 2nd Fauxbama term will do to this country far outweigh my dislike of Romney.
NOBODY gets everything that they want in politics. Sometimes you settle for what you can get now, and work harder and smarter to change the calculus for the next time. First stop a disaster, then work to perfect things. If your house is on fire, do you first put it out, or do you stand around complaining about someone being careless or the failure of the sprinkler?
For example, my county here tried to pass a referendum to raise taxes to pay for a new high school. Now a new high school would be great, and it's probably needed. The old one is a mess and the air conditioning doesn't work well, it was built in the 1930s and has had several additions and modifications over the decades. My kids go there! Still, they wanted $100 million for the new school. I'm sorry, but that is too much. There were no other choices. Just raise the taxes and have the new school built, or don't get a new school.
I voted against it, that is, no.
They accused those of us who were against it as hating children, wanting them to fail, to see their whole lives and aspirations dashed on the rocks of a decrepit infrastructure!
It was not such in any case. We simply couldn't afford it.A negative vote was clearly the best vote.
It is the same with Obama versus Romney. That is now the choice before us. I'm choosing top vote NO! on Obama.
Conservatives voting for Romney are not betraying their principles. It is applying the best solution given the choices. And to state that Obama and Romney are exactly the same is just untrue. Sure, they're similar in some policies they support, but there's still a lot of differences.
The biggest?
Obama HATES this country, of that, I'm convinced. Romney doesn't. Romney loves himself. I'd rather have a self-serving ahole in office than a non-citizen who HATES this country, the middle and upper classes, and white people. Obama has grand plans for his second term, and I'm sorely afraid of what they are, and if we can survive them. No way, Nobama!