Mitt is not my 1st or 2nd choice. When you are down to 3rd choices to try and prevent a demonstrably much worse evil (Hillary or Obama) you are not going to get anything close to the optimum. Of those left in the race, my view is Romney is the best stop gap, will buy us the most time, will have the best chance of preventing Hillary or Obama, and may, just may be true to the changes he openly admits he has made. It's sad it's come to such a choice...but it has.
I do not believe Romney will renig on abortion or gun rights when he has straight up said we he has said in this campaign. But, if he does...he will still not go nearly as far as an Obama or Hillary. That buys us some time...and when it comes to my children's and grand-children's future and security in such times as these when the good choices have exited the race, then buying them more time is better than turning them over to a much worse and more imminent threat.
But that is just my read here in Idaho surrounded by mountians, my own guns, and people who are inclined to love America and defend her...others are free to read it as they will and support their candidates accordingly.
BAH! it is simpler to see than it is to say- The two biggest binding agents in our party and in Conservatism are the sanctity of life and the 2nd amendment. When we have reached such a level of moral turpitude that these, even these are "on the table", then we are all but defunct. Damnation is waiting in the wings. That it is even a consideration in the minds of anyone is utterly despicable.
Of those left in the race, my view is Romney is the best stop gap, will buy us the most time, will have the best chance of preventing Hillary or Obama
Romney hasn't a chance in hell of winning, and everyone must know it is true. What Republican has ever won without the support of the Christian (Pro-Life) and the 2nd Amendment factions?
The "bait and switch" in this campaign has always been a matter of distraction. Distract attention away from the most qualified and deprive them of air. The most qualified are being removed by attrition, and in the exact order of their qualification: First Tancredo and Hunter, the most capable by anyones standard, then Thompson... All removed by deprivation and distraction.
To see who is next most qualified, one need only calculate who is next to fall, by the simple observation of who is being deprived of air.
What is remarkable, to say the least, is how easily the only means of changing that has been sullied. There can be no grassroots or grassroots revolt when the main engines of the grassroots fire have become compromised. Y'all are being played.
I do not believe Romney will renig on abortion or gun rights when he has straight up said we he has said in this campaign. But, if he does...he will still not go nearly as far as an Obama or Hillary.
The lesser evil argument. Very popular, but false all the same.
[...] when the good choices have exited the race, then buying them more time is better than turning them over to a much worse and more imminent threat.
The paramount threat is liberal control of both sides of the isle. Our ideology loses when we can no longer offer opposition. If the champion of the Sanctity of Life and the 2nd Amendment lays down his sword, then who will be left to defend us at all?
Better to support the TRUTH, even on a long shot. That is why I am backing Keyes, as he is the only one on the board defending what we believe in. If not him, we lose regardless at this point. But in that case, with integrity, the high moral ground, sound character and determination, we will live to fight another day.