I think that we have to look at a candidate’s overall record. There will always be individual issues, or rather the handling of individual issues, that we disagree with, but it has to have an overall conservative pattern.
There is nothing conservative about Romney. He’s big-government, managed economy, not pro-life, not pro-family, evasive about his views on a lot of things, and I cannot see how the GOP can even consider him.
And the conservatives are out knocking each other off, the media talking heads are knocking off conservatives, and conservatives themselves are busy helping in the destruction of one or more conservatives who have problems in just one or 2 areas.
Priority of Concerns for Conservatives
1. Life - pro-life
2. Guns - pro self-defense, national defense
3. God - free exercise of religion to include free speech on religious issues
4. Money - sound, sane policies that spend only on the most critical areas and spend no more than taken in
5. Military - designed/organized to win; support for troops; rationally interventionist for true vital national interests; not used against American people nor as social experiment lab.
6. Marriage and Family - the natural nuclear family as the best foundation for a trained, moral society
7. Homeland security - a coastal and border security that controls and intercepts anything or anyone that enters the nation. A vital information network that identifies threats within our borders and deals with them appropriately.
8. Others?