I was a Cain guy and now I'm a Newt guy. The fact that I live in Realville as Rush says, and we might be stuck with Romney at the end of the process does not mean I just let someone like Obama go waltzing unopposed back into the White House.
I have said, and I will say it again, you Vote your Candidate in the Primary and you Vote your Party's Candidate in the General. I'm hoping that Newt will still be in it by June when my State holds its Primary, just so I can cast my Ballot for him. The system sucks, but it's all we have at the moment.
Maybe we should apply what I call the Cheney Rule, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In the case of Romney, change Friend to Acquaintance. Either way, it's Nobama, no way for me. I'll stick with Mark Levin on this issue, thank you very much.
BTW - If Romney gets the Delegates, it's him versus Obama in the General. There is no one else to save the day. Calling me a Useful Idiot (chuckle, snort, cough, gasp, puke) because facing that dilemma leaves us a choice of one guy or the other does nothing to lessen the impact of a second Obama (nothing to lose) Term. You might as well stick your fingers in your ears and hum out loud, but that won't change what this Country will look like in 2016.
You and I are at a stalemate, just as many here seem to be.
It won't make any difference at the end of the day. You have expressed your opinion on the matter and I have expressed mine. We have both played this hand over and over again with the same outcome.
I wish you the best in the position you have taken, but there is really no point in going around and around with this. When a FReeper actually casts a Vote for the Republican Candidate in the General Election, whether Romney or someone else (I hope), the die will be cast and we will all suffer the consequences of our decision. That is when the real discussion will begin followed by finger pointing and blame, real or imagined.
From you post #96:
>I’ll go with Mitt and you can stick with Obama.
That’s the signature expression of a Romney Bot, that if you don’t vote for the liar, then you “can stick with Obama”.
Both are enemies.
That you are foolish enough to create a false choice shows you are not familiar with how warfare plays out over time.
Battles are won and battles are lost, but wars are won after having first purged one’s ranks of the disloyal, the treasonous, the double agents, etc.
The Tea Party declared war on the current GOP establishment. The current GOP establishment has fought back by joining the democrats in ridiculing and marginalizing the Tea Party conservatives. Romney is their front man. He is as much a liberal as Obama is but worse because he keeps his true nature hidden within the GOP-E and not the democrat party where he belongs.
This is not a battle between democrat and republican. This is a battle between ruling class and country class.
Your choice is a liberal democrat or a liberal democrat wearing an ‘R’.
Don’t think for one second that your approach to “vote for Mitt or stick with Obama” will go unnoticed while you defend yourself as a ‘Cain’ guy or a ‘Newt’ guy. People here know B*llsh*t when they see it.