[MindBender26]

If you don't like reality, that's tough

To begin with, and let me be very clear about this: No third-party candidate, no matter how sincere or how well-funded – whether the party calls itself Libertarian, Constitution, Tea Party, Bull Moose or Whig – is ever going to win a national election. All a third-party candidate will do is ensure that a liberal will be able to win with just 40-45 percent of the vote.

Also, anyone who is too pure in heart to vote for the Republican nominee, whoever it turns out to be, doesn't then get to say, "Well, at least I had nothing to do with re-electing Barack Obama." If you don't vote for, as some folks like to say, the lesser of two evils, you will have a lot to do with electing the greater menace.

Work as hard as you can to get the Republicans to nominate the most electable strong Conservative, but if you don't succeed, don't blame the Republican Party.

To not support the R nominee is to help reelect Obama.

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t like reality, but I deal with it my way.

I do exactly what you suggest. But I do not go out of my way to back RINOs, if they get elected it is without my help.

[alecqss]

Agree. We have to nominate the most conservative candidate possible; still, whoever wins GOP primary will have my vote, RINO or not. If we play purist game again as we did in 2008 - =then= Republic is a toast.

[Pox]

To not support the R nominee is to help reelect Obama.

BS.

To put a RINO in the White House is no better for the future of this country than Obama being in the White House, and at least the blame is put squarely where it belongs, on the head of a dem.

Make a stand and vote your principles. Obama or Romney, no difference. Obama or Trump, no difference. Obama or Huckabee, no difference.

If a RINO ends up being the Republican nominee, it makes absolutely no difference who wins, IMO. We MUST have a solid conservative steering this country back towards prosperity, or else we're simply participating in a circle jerk, IMO.

In the end, it really doesn't matter from my point of view as there seems to be no politician ready, willing and able to make the hard choices necessary to do what is needed to put this country back on the right track.

Our best bet is to prepare to exercise our second amendment rights, and although I hope I am mistaken, I have a sinking feeling that such a course of action is the only chance this country has to survive, and I desperately hope to be proved wrong.