No. Votes not cast are not counted. It's as purely simple as that. If 50 million people did not vote, those votes do not count for anyone. It is not a hard concept to grasp.
You are trying to make an argument that the GOP is entitled to my vote, they are not. If your argument were accepted by everyone there would be no conservative movement at all, the GOPe would reign supreme and Free Republic would be nothing but an echo chamber for the country club establishment elite.
If we voted for whatever they served up, then we have shown that conservative principles are utterly meaningless. We will show that they do NOT have to listen to us at all, because they have our votes no matter what. How will they further conservatism? It won't.
I am a conservative, Romney is not. It's simple to grasp.
Hmmmmmmm.....
Now, that doesn’t make sense to me. If 5 million conservatives do not vote for Romney because as the Republican nominee he’s not conservative enough or at all, yes - those votes aren’t counted - but, very few liberals on the other side will hesitate to vote for Obama - he wins in a landslide since conservative votes are required and necessary for the Republican to generate the volume needed to win.
And True, the GOP is not entitled to your vote but more than likely received your vote last time around and many times before that. This time, they will not and you don’t have a nominee to vote for, you will sit this one out - Obama wins big. Interesting way to go.
Also, you seem angry. I’m just curious, not intending to be confrontational.