I have to say though, that you didn't answer the exact question I asked. The poster said that of the two, if he got the nomination, Romney would be better able to pull all the conservatives together. You didn't say anything to change my mind that THAT simply isn't true.
True, most conservatives will (hopefully) "hold their noses" and vote for Romney in the general. But it's pretty clear to me that CONSERVATIVES won't be holding their nose nearly so much if FDT is the nominee.
Anyway, thanks for the reasoned response.
Hank
I guess I didn’t answer that exact question because I’m not sure it’s accurate.
If I had to make an argument why it might be true, the only thing I could come up with is that if Fred can’t get the conservatives right now, when he really has no argument from a conservative perspective, there must be something else that makes people not support him, and that won’t go away just because he gets the nomination.
Meanwhile, if Romney’s problem is the fear factor, that goes away after the nomination, since whatever you fear is less than the real danger of a liberal democrat.
But like I said, I imagine that if Fred COULD get the nomination, he’d pull us together well enough.
The only thing I worry about is whether we’d lose a good number of the evangelicals due to his position on faith and practice. But I don’t think he’d drive them to a 3rd party or anything, just that if a good number of evangelicals stayed home we’d lose.