Excellent questions.
Flip the question...what do you see happening if Romney is elected? Do you really think the GOP is going to undo Obamacare?? They've already tipped their hat and said it's "too hard". They've already given up. NOBODY in Washington is going to get rid of Obamacare. It's money for them. They don't care about anything but getting as much as they can while they can. They KNOW the country is in it's death throes. They're milking the cash out of every sucker they can while they can.
It's over for our present system of government. It was over the moment our government took it's eyes off God as the source of our power, wealth and blessings.
It's either going to be Obama, who is either a godless communist or a god hating muslim...or Romney..who worships a god invented by a man. Which will God bless?
It has nothing to do with outcomes. It has to do with defending the principles upon which we all stand. Endorsing Romney means throwing every single principle of Conservatism under the bus...
I do not expect Christians to compromise their deeply held convictions wrt 'Right to Life' and 'Sanctity of marriage' in order to put this mook in office... But the ABO crowd around here does.
I do not expect Military conservatives to vote for a guy whose whole family does not have a single member who served... But the ABO crowd does.
I do not expect fiscal conservatives to suddenly throw out Austrian Capitalism in favor of Keynesian economics... but the ABO crowd does.
I do not expect civil libertarians to give up the Constitution, small government, and RKBA in favor of gun control, enabling federal power, and the belief that the Constitution is a 'living document'... But the ABO crowd does.
Never in my life have Conservatives rolled over on these issues for the sake of expediency (not to mention all of them at once), and I don't expect they will now - Because rolling over on these issues will certainly leave them wholly undefended (never to be championed again), and will remove the last vestiges of opposition to liberalism.
This is an election of dire consequence, to be sure:
Many say that there will be nothing left to defend after 4 more years of Obama...
I would say that without these truths, which we hold are self-evident, there is nothing left to save.