That dynamic follows the election cycle. Come election time, you'll find no shortage of defenders of big government Republicans.
People who voted for Mitt Romney in many cases could not stand him. They were not in favor of big government Republicans. It was Obama and his criminal, radical gang they were trying to oust. Therefore for them, Romney was a placeholder, a holding action until there was a real candidate for our side.
I tell it it this way. In TX, in order to help oust the Obama gang, Texans held their noses and voted Romney, BUT AT THE SAME TIME SENT TED CRUZ TO WASHINGTON.
If not for those votes that were cast AGAINST, NOT FOR, make no mistake Obama would have taken the great state of Texas into his column.
Romney was a terrible pick in the tradition of Dole, McCain and GHWB. Who doesn’t know that?
Today and tomorrow, we need to put everything behind a candidate that is the opposite of those, and not splinter our votes away into nothing.
Sadly, I fear you are right.