Abandonment of principle is the issue. Bailing on the Republican Party may be understandable. Embracing Obama is not. It is true that Reagan, Roosevelt and Lieberman all rejected their parties. They did not however, embrace The National Socialists, The Communist Party, or the party of Obama.
As the PUMA’s have discovered, “party” often times does not equal “principle”.
Reagan made it clear where he stood long before any sort of election, Joe Liebermann made it plain where he stood before this election.
It is a singularly Vichy trait to try and pile on when it appears the Election is no longer in doubt.