I guess you didn`t catch the meaning of my statement, i.e., if Romney is the nominee.
And so your choice would be to hide under your bed and not vote for either, thereby helping to ensure four more years of Obama? Or falling into the idealistic trap of voting third-party, again helping Obama?
Set of balls, you say?
Choose whatever path you will, but I`m anti-Obama. For me, that comes first.
So what you are saying is that you WILL vote for Romney.
What's the Key Goal Right Now?
You know, the “last-choice” Romneybots can become converts of a lack-of-long-term vision/short-sighted goal. If RINO Romney chases the base of the party out of the GOP, then actually the goal right now should be to keep the GOP from becoming the next extinct Whig party!
What would it matter for Romney to win the nomination, lose the election, and leave the GOP in tatters for 2014 & 2016?
Besides, Romney won't win. Many Christians won't vote for him...
...both for flip-flopping social issues reasons
...& --for some reason -- they tend to shrink from voting for people who think they are a would-be god.
You might not have an issue with voting for people who think they are a literal "god-in-embryo" (fave term of some Mormon leaders to describe themselves), but I do. (I tend not to vote for idolaters who steal God's glory by trying to share worship of Him).
And, after the MSM gets done with Romney, were he to win the primaries, many independents would steer way clear as well. He is not a viable candidate. Why waste my vote on a losing candidate while doing simultaneous damage to my conscience?
And, as mentioned above, he would permanently ruin the GOP. Those who have short-term vision and can't see past Obama should know that the base will largely "walk" if the RINOs take over the GOP. Whigism -- extinction -- will be the way of the GOP. It will go by the wayside. Permanently. I will simply walk away from the GOP and not look back.
So what to do?
#1: There's never only a "binary" choice. (There's ALWAYS a third-party vote if the GOP slits its own throat...or aren't you aware that the Whigs are no longer around & a new party called the GOP arose in the mid-1850s?)
#2 We need peripheral vision...elsewise, if we're only beholden to the current campaign, people would vote for a Hitler type in a nanosecond if a worst evil candidate was running vs. him.
Take the biggest "loser" of a GOP candidate...say a pro-abort, pro-national healthcare, pro-homosexual candidate. Guess what? If you vote for such a candidate, you've wasted your vote. He will lose. Voting for a losing candidate -- even by people who think in your terms -- is indeed a wasted vote...which I thought was anathema to FREEPERS like you.
(And so what if Romney can garner up to 10% or so more than a third-party candidate?…If you lose a football game, 46-29, why is that so much better than losing a football game 46-16 or 46-19?)
Too many GOP FREEPERS are willing to waste their vote and singe their conscience
So again: Why would you waste your vote on a candidate you know will lose -- and taint your convictions & conscience in the process? And stab the GOP party in the back at the same time?
As for voting for the “lesser evil,” No. I wouldn't vote for Hitler in the 1930s Germany even if he were running vs. the anti-Christ.
...there's a clear line in the sand. When the wife of a 40-yo marriage no longer sits in the middle portion of the seat of a pick-up truck, who moved?
We're not pushing the exit button; if the GOP decides to do that by electing Romney, they've exited and are threatening the entire party with Whigism.
At that point, should it occur, the GOP needs to clearly understand the true meaning of a "wasted vote."