[PoliticalArsonist]

Throughout the primary, I agreed with you wholeheartedly but now, not quite so much. Please allow me to explain why.

Assuming that Romney is the eventual nominee, that is who we have as a viable alternative to Obama. He is not the conservative alternative and he is not the face or voice of conservatives and I don’t believe that anyone believes otherwise.

We failed to get a conservative so we are in a fall back position of removing Obama and then we must be better prepared in 2016.

If Romney is every bit as bad as Obama (and he could well be) at least when we criticize Romney, the worst that we’ll be called is religious bigot and that doesn’t have quite the sting of the other false charge of being racist and it will not be as effective.

I am voting to remove Obama, nothing else counts right now.

[EternalVigilance]

The “I’m not voting for Romney, I’m voting against Obama” meme is simply a falsehood, an obvious one that is designed to cover up the truth of what you’re doing with a fig leaf.

Truth is, not a ballot in the country will offer a single line to vote against anyone for president. They will all contain only the opportunity to vote FOR your chosen candidate.

[so_real]

In the entire history of the United States, only one elected president failed to receive the nomination of his party for re-election in the following term. That was Franklin Pierce in 1857. Your plan to be better prepared in 2016 already has a success probability approaching zero with regard to the POTUS. Try we will, I grant you. But we'll have even less probability of success in four years than we have today. After eight years of GOPe control, 'conservatism' will no longer mean what it means today. We will have lost more than you expect. Only by keeping a tagged target on the field of battle before us will the GOPe decide "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and work with us. Once the GOPe is empowered, they will turn (left) against us. Count on it; history repeats itself.