“I swore I wouldn’t vote for Romney. That lasted for a week or so. I will hold my nose and do my duty. I think you will see that more and more.”
It’s hard to say. Some like you will cave. Others like me will stand strong and vote on principle. Some of us are done voting for unprincipled liberals who will do anything to win the presidency, including lying and destroying their opponents reputations.
I think that description applies to Romney as well.
I cannot believe that we bright constitutional conservatives cannot find a way to both fight against EVER BEING FORCED TO DRINK GOP KOOLAID and still be able to actively vote against Obama.
I think we can. If we have to vote for Romney as the true lesser evil, we need to start NOW protesting LOUDLY and starting a new party for the future. They got us now because we did not galvanize early enough with the tea party. Political movements take time.
We need to start now for 2016. But I don’t think we need to passively support Obama by not voting. If you are passionate about it, fine, don’t vote for Romney. But he should pick a good conservative as his running mate because he reads FR too and can see he has ZERO CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT. So when he picks someone we like, we can hope that he wins and that maybe the veep will grow to be a future good candidate. Also, if conservatives don’t vote for Pres, they are far less likely to even show up at the polls for the down ticket.
We can do both. I believe in us. We just have to get off our baskets and not waste the 3 years between elections like we did this time. You could smell this coming since 2008 and no one did anything to move a strong, vetted tea party candidate forward. We were counting on Palin and frankly, she is a huge disappointment. She chose the money.