Going as far as you do, I understand your reasoning. The problem for me is that I cannot support McCain. And where you and I part ways, is that I can not support Romney either.
I will be writing in this fall.
Sorry folks, I urged people to use some sound jugement before we came to this place, but here we are anyway.
I may not get to vote to decide the nominee, but if I am presented with these choices, I do at least have the choice to opt out.
I understand you completely. After Thompson bowed out, I spent a long time reading Romney’s positions and nosing into his past acts. I finally decided to throw in with him because I KNEW that McCain needed to be derailed, and I believed — and still do — that Romney’s the only one with the guns to do that.
As we work through the rest of the primary season, my hope is that Romney and Huckabee will snag enough delegates between them to keep McCain from locking up the nomination. If that happens, [Please, Jesus!] then Huckabee and Romney can make some kind of an alliance to give Huckabee’s delegates to Romney. That would occur, because I think Huckabee will be trailing along in third place when the last of the primary elections wraps up. It’ll be obvious to him that he’s NOT going to be the nominee; that the BIG decision is between McCain and Romney, and I think Huckabee’s more inclined to throw in with Romney, and make a play to be his VP, than with McCain. If that scenario played out, it would give Romney a lock on the nomination.
It’s all conjectural, at this point, but I’m saying my prayers, and pulling for Romney, ‘cuz I got hope. If reconsidering the situation in that light gives you a sufficiently moral reason to join the push for Romney, you’d be welcome.