If, next November, it comes down to a choice between Obama and Romney, I will vote for Obama. Here is why...
If Romney wins, he will be in a position to implement the entire Obama agenda. Romney will be able to peel off moderate Republicans and reach across the aisle to Democrats to pass Cap & Trade, Amnesty, Nationalized Health Care (his “replacement), Stimulus III, and every other bad Obama idea to come down the pike. We will get Obama’s second term agenda, with one major difference...
If Obama wins, he will be dealing with a hostile Congress, with Republican majorities in both houses. He will be unable to attract Republican votes to any of this proposals, because every Republican now knows that voting with Barack Obama is political suicide. The entire Obama agenda will wither on the vine as the country spends four years locked in partisan gridlock.
Given the choice between Obama and Romney, partisan gridlock is our best option. So, given that choice, I will walk down to the voting booth, and with a clear conscience, cast my vote for Barack Hussein Obama.
Anyone from NY who remembers Pataki should understand your point: nobody passes a Leftist agenda faster than a RINO. Just having an (R) after the Executive’s name will gain automatic support of at least 10% of Republicans, regardless of what the bill in question is - often enough to pass pretty much anything the Democrats want.
I wouldn’t go so far as voting for the Obama instead of Romney, but would go 3rd party just to make the point.
Yes, there are awful things which would come of it. Point is, it’s a matter of the lesser of two evils, and methinks the greater evil is whoever can get more an evil agenda passed. RINOs seek and obtain cooperation and bill passage, when gridlock is preferable.
I can’t say you’re wrong, though I could never actually vote for Obama.
But look how craven the GOP House and Senators are now as an opposition party. They’d go right along with the Democrats in voting in the Romney agenda, which of course is just a slightly slower version of Obamacare.
I’d see it as a likely third Nixon term.
(Also, a bigger version of a second term of Romney as MA guv, which was really ugly.)