You’re not voting on principle. I dare say you don’t even understand the meaning of the word.
When November 2012 rolls around, you have a choice between Obama and the Republican. Nobody else has a chance of being elected. If you do not vote for the Republican, then you are the Union soldier who refused to fire his weapon at the Confederate soldier. You can say it’s “principle” but a conservative who does not vote for the more conservative candidate is helping the more liberal candidate. Those are the facts.
You may now resume your implicit support of Obama.
Please - you go on and vote for your RINO if you want to. Your analogy of the civil war is pathetic. There’s hardly any difference between Romney and Obama, so don’t try to paint some herioc war picture as if voting for Romney is the equivalent of ending slavery. How can you say Romney is the “more conservative” candidate - that’s a crock.
The facts are the GOP is doomed if it keeps nominating liberals. The GOP needs a wakeup call that it can’t take conservatives for granted. It needs to fight on principle and not compromise so often.
You may now resume your continuous support of the liberal-lite, loser GOP party. What you fail to see is that a Romney presidency won’t be any better than an Obama presidency in the long run.