We had a primary. It was hard-fought.
There was every opportunity to put up a non-Romney. FR had its favorites at various times...and they came and went.
Primary process is over. Time to vote ABO.
I'll join you in voting against Obama, but I'm not going to help you replace him with a liberal you like better. I'm voting against both liberals.
Win or lose, I'm voting for Tom Hoefling this year.
On the contrary, FRiend, time to ponder the warning gzzimlich posted way back in April:
I live in a country (the UK) where the “conservative” choice supports gay marriage, socialised healthcare and the “right” of unions to make domestic labour almost prohibitively costly to employers.
I emphasize that this is the “conservative” candidate (David Cameron.)
Romney might seem like a decent option when compared with Obama, but my country - a surveillance state in which the use of “reasonable force” in defending your life and property was only made official policy a couple of years ago - is a prime example of what happens when you compromise your principles and start rationalising voting for the lesser of two evils.
I'm voting for a plurality. I'm voting third party and pray that everybody who's disgusted with both Obama and Romney do the same so whichever evil gets the White House, is facing four years of it being ON RECORD that the large majority of American voters wanted him to get lost. It's the only advantage my presidential vote can give to conservative Repblicans in Congress. Obama is loathed though the MSM spins otherwise; if he wins on a plurality where nearly two in three voted against him, he would be humiliated and a mockery. Republicans chastened by how Romney was rejected, would move right. Obama would be a scarecrow trying to advance his agenda.
Time to stop hyperventilating "ABO!" and START THINKING.
If ABO stands for anybody but Obama, why are you not satisfied unless the person votes for Romney?
You should really just change the label to RNO, which can mean two things:
Romney not Obama, and;
Republican - Name Only!
Both are accurate.