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2ndDivisionVet, I agree with lent that your words are generally not plagued with name calling and bias and that there are many times that you make good comments. I made a comment to you based on your Hispanic name calling, but I don’t think you make a habit of making such actions. As I said, you have had many other good thoughts when you write, and many of your comments are right on. If I went overboard for just one small thing, please accept my apologies.

Lent, Romney and Perry or Obama and Biden? If Romney were our nominee, it would seem like we would have to vote for Romney. Sickening to have to vote for a Romney nominee, but if we DIDN’T vote for Romney if he were our nominee, then we would get Obama.

However, I don’t see why Perry would need to take a VP slot with Romney even if we had a Romney Republican nomination... if that’s what you are asking. Perry has led the Republican Governor’s Association. He’s been greatly involved in energy and also in emerging technology. He’s been very involved with pro-life groups and activities and also with religious and faith-based activities. He’s also very acquainted with law enforcement and the various aspects of homeland security. I would think Perry could make a real difference as POTUS, but I would think he could find positions and roles other than a VP to a preppy socialist pimp like Romney where he could make more of a difference for the the people of the U.S.

If we are stuck with Romney, I think Romney will be looking for someone who NEEDS him, and that would not be Governor Perry.

Romney and Perry or Obama and Biden?

Oh, barf! What a grisly thought -- all the more reason, then, for conservatives to close ranks behind a conservative and fight off Willard and his Armies of the Tight.

Here in Texas, there is Zero chance that Obama will carry the State under any foreseeable circumstance whatsoever, so I would have no problem voting third-party to appease my conscience and escape Romney's cynical trap. If, in such a contest, Romney carried Texas by eight votes and was locked up in recounts for four weeks or so and had to send an army of supporters down here to make sure he didn't get screwed by Sheila Jackson Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, the Zetas, and the MS-13's, that would be an okay outcome with me. Honestly. I never voted for Richard Nixon or the detached Yacht Club milquetoast George Herbert Walker Bush for the same reason. When Nixon ran, I lived and voted in Louisiana and wasn't voting strategically, but I didn't want to offer support to a guy who'd used, and then screwed, the Right in 1968. In 1988 and 1992, there was no chance whatever that Texas would go to the Democrat, so I breathed easy denying my vote to a man I despised almost as much as Ross Perot did.

Clarify much?

No vote for Willard.

but if we DIDN’T vote for Romney if he were our nominee, then we would get Obama.

By all means vote for Romney if he gets the nomination, but don't expect a lot of us to fall in line. 2008 should have been a wakeup call to the GOP. If they want to repeat it and run a RINO against Obama, they will lose.

Some people were upset when Jim Robinson announced that there would be no support or campaigning for Romney if he gets the nomination, and that JR would vote for somebody else, but I think it's exactly what needs to happen - the GOP needs to be kicked to the curb if they try and foist Romney upon us. The GOP will eventually learn that running RINOs is not going to happen, not now.