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You are nothing but a selfish, spoiled brat! Romney wasn't crammed down anybodies throats; he was duly nominated in our states primaries. You are simply pi$$ed your choice didn't win in the primaries. Neither did mine, but instead of acting like a selfish SOB, I'm getting behind our GOP nominee to defeat the Marxist currently destroying our nation.

Your reply above pretty much sums up my feelings about the anti-Romney folk here. Enough is enough. We get it. Romney is far from our ideal candidate to carry the banner for the Republican Party. I can we can all agree on that. However, bashing Romney (at least between now and November) is going to get us nowhere. Once he's in office, I'll be one of his toughest critics. But right now, my focus is on removing a president who is a clear and present danger to the Constitution of the United States.

I also agree that Romney was not "crammed down our throats". Conservatives chose him in enough numbers to gain him the nomination. In other words, Romney won this contest fair and square.

Case in point is Wyoming, arguably the most conservative state in America. Well, Wyoming held their Republican caucuses back in February. Free Republic favorite Newt Gingrich was still very much in the race. So was Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. All registered Republicans were invited to participate.

The results? Well when all was said and done, Mitt Romney picked up 22 out of 29 delegates. How many did Newt Gingrich get? Zero. The same Newt Gingrich who was much ballyhooed around here as the most conservative option and he pulled a goose egg in our most conservative state. Inexplicable, but one cannot say that Romney was crammed down our throats. With respect to Wyoming, you can't blame mischief-minded Democrats. The Wyoming caucus was for registered Republicans only. There were many other states that held primaries/caucuses for Republicans only and Romney still won most of them. Like it or not, conservatives chose Mitt Romney over the other candidates that were offered up.

So as they used to say when I was in the military, you make your bed, you sleep in it. We must find a way to defeat Obama this November with the tools we have been given. We have been given a lemon and so we must now make lemonade. All the whining, gnashing of teeth and foot-stomping I see here will serve no useful purpose.