Hi, Lake, hope you’re having a great Saturday.
In any case, you seriously underestimate the danger of Romney, in my view. It is no accident that he has been unanimously rejected on Free Republic since 2007. Just check the RomneyTruthFile.
I want Virgil Goode to run a race in which he tries to get every state, every vote possible. Any other strategy for a candidate would doom the aspirations of that party to grow.
As Goode has himself pointed out, he takes as much from the dem column as he does from the repub column. His real target is social conservative independent, dem, and repub.
Since social conservatives have been rejected by the Republican Party, there is only ONE major minority party welcoming them....the Constitution Party. Who is Rejecting social conservatives, you say? See Rush Limbaugh statement to that effect. See Todd Akin. See even Sarah Palin who says that perhaps the time has come for a 3rd party.
I fully understand the problems with Romney. I also fully understand the horror of the current administration.
Trust me, Virgil does not take from the dem column, he's just blowing smoke(and likely lying) if he is saying that.
The only hope for social conservatives is to unelect Bambi, the real threat to all of us. He is the most pro-death president ever, the most anti-Christian, anti-God president ever. After that we continue to work with the TEA party to dominate the GOP, much like Reagan did. There is no hope with Goode, he is being bankrolled by the very evil you hate, and you need to figure this out: the third party path is not the right path at this point, it's self defeating and hurts everything you love and care for.
I have to admit that I think the chances of Goode winning are between nil and none - mainly because far, far too many conservatives are trapped in the mental misconception of the two-party system.
However, I think that our major effort should be at destroying the GOP and rebuilding a credible second party in its place. Frankly, the GOP is about where the Whigs were in 1848 - they won that election, but had ceased to exist as a party by 1856. This was because, while still being able to cobble together enough coalitions to win elections, they nevertheless fractured themselves because of their inability to find a set of principles and stick with them.
Conservatives should help this process along with the GOP. We need to take away the GOP-E’s little toy, break it, and substitute it with one of our own. If we were serious about really standing on our principles, we could permanently disemploy people like Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt, and the rest of the people who, frankly, are as much of a long-term problem as Barack Obama is.