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I was going back through some posts, trying to find a particular one, and I noticed that I completely missed yours.

You posted (in part):

“There were people to vote for. The fact is that you gambled on winning with an open liberal over perhaps standing on your claimed conservative beliefs and losing. It was a conscious decision entered into willingly. You CHOSE to gamble on an open liberal winning and lost.”

For some reason, on election day, you said I should have voted for a conservative. There were basically only two candidates on the ballot; you said that I could have written in someone’s name maybe (an exercise in complete futility) but the touch screen did not allow that. Anyway, the following was on Breitbard:

Mitt Romney

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney repeatedly vetoed bills giving illegal aliens in-state tuition, and the legislature was never able to override him. He made clear he would also veto any bill allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, so those never made it to his desk. He vetoed a bill to give health coverage to illegal aliens — but the legislature overruled him. About the time Jeb Bush was pressuring the Florida legislature to give illegals driver’s licenses, Romney sought and received a special agreement with federal immigration officials allowing Massachusetts state troopers to arrest illegal aliens. Romney was Jan Brewer before Jan Brewer was Jan Brewer.
For this, Romney was unremittingly attacked by Third World immigration boosters such as Senator Teddy Kennedy and activist Ali Noorani. The Democratic attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas Reilly, called a press conference to denounce Governor Romney as “meanspirited” for vetoing the bill to give illegals in-state tuition. In response, Romney invited the press to his office and showed them that the proposed reduction in tuition for illegals would cost the state millions of dollars a year.
Romney is the only serious presidential candidate ever to support E-Verify and a fence on the border — unequivocally. The media, GOP consultants, the big donors, and the Bush family all attacked him for his suggestion that illegal aliens would “self-deport.” Media darling John McCain blustered to the New Yorker that “everybody agrees” that Romney’s “biggest mistake” was to say “quote, self-deport.” Chuckling at the madness of it, McCain said, “I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I heard that, because you can’t have eleven million people self-deport.” How does McCain think they got here?
The point of this exercise is to ask: Why didn’t you know that, reader? Why — to this day — do so many conservatives tout Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz as “bold colors, no pastels” Republicans — especially compared with that miserable establishment RINO, Mitt Romney? Would the NRA hide truthful information about candidates’ positions on guns from their members? Immigration groups do! Numbers USA gave Romney a “C+” on immigration. C+! Anti-immigration websites carped about Romney throughout the campaign. What does he have to do? Build the fence himself?

How did I gamble? Those are my views.