Personally, I'd vote for just about anyone other than Obama right now. And whoever can make it through the Republican primary will get my vote. I keep hearing “we can't keep voting for the lesser of two evils”, but to me, in this election, Obama is SO evil, socialist, spends so much, keeps proposing new taxes, no jobs, new wars, with Obamacare, and with what we've seen he's given us on the Supreme Court and with his Czars, AG pick, etc, he needs to be gone. I've skipped local and state elections before because both candidates were horrible (NY), but I want Obama gone. I never thought I could think any lower of a democratic President than I thought of Carter or Clinton— until now.
People, obviously, can support who they want but I'm starting to get the horrible feeling that we are so separated on the right that we will have the “pleasure” of another four years of Obama, and it scares the hell out of me!We're not all that separated. We're still early in the nominating process and there are a lot of partisan feelings about several different very good conservative candidates. The question of who is actually qualified to run for President under the Republican banner is what's being argued right now, and it's right and proper that there are strong feelings among the followers of the various contenders.
Perry has already won over a rather large segment of the primary voters, even this early, and that points to a decidedly un-divided consensus being formed over the next 6-9 months of the campaign (hopefully sooner, rather than later).
So don't let the current divisions get you down. Especially don't let the anger of a minority of posters here in FR get you down.
We're going to be a lot more united when the time comes than you think.
Sure, there will always be idiots who say things like "I'd rather have Obama than Perry". But they are not the majority of Republican voters. They are not the majority of conservative voters. They are not even conservatives at all. Don't worry about them.
I agree with you. Primary season is the time to work for getting the best candidate we can.
But when the primary is over, it will be time to stop bitching and unite behind the winner.