Even if Santorum didn’t stand a chance against Obama, I would still vote for him over Romney or Gingrich. My wife and I have decided that if Romney wins the primary, we are choosing not to vote for a president in the General Election. We will still vote for Senators and everything else, but we’ll just do a write-in for president.
To vote for a candidate you do not like still means you support them. As much as I do not want 4 more years of Obama, I believe even more strongly that I do not want to send a message to the GOP that I support their rhinos.
You have a right to your own conscience, of course. Myself, my attitude is: I am always voting for the lesser of two evils. There’s been no perfect candidate, and I include Reagan, who had a divorce history (not as bad as Newt’s!), legalized abortion in California (although he apparently deeply regretted it) and did a massive illegal immigration grab.
So I vote for the candidate that I think will do the least harm; and the most good.
That is your right, of course, but in my mind that's a vote for Obama. I'm not a Mitt fan either, but getting Obama out of the White House trumps ALL this time. If Romney wins it all, then a conservative Congress will help keep him in check.
This country won't survive four more years of Obama. Obamacare will be firmly in place--irreversible. And his czars and continued spending will place us on a path to a Greek-like meltdown. In fact, it may already be too late given the huge debt Obama and the Dem Congress racked up in a little over three years--more than the total accrued from Presidents Washington thru Clinton and now more than Bush 43 incurred in eight years.
You can send whatever message you want to the GOP, but it will be meaningless and irrelevant. It is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Given what is at stake, i.e., the survival of the Republic, "anybody but Obama" should be the objective of patriots.
Let's get real here. Do you want two or more Kagans on the Supreme Court? There can be nothing worse than Big Ears back for 4 yrs unchecked. Again I say, get real.
You have remember - you’re voting AGAINST Obama, not for Mitt.
I know it stinks on ice, but there it is.