Although I certainly do NOT favor Romney, I would still vote for him against Obama.
Just think about what America would be like after four more years of Obama. He would bring more DEMS to the House and Senate, be appointing judges to SCOTUS,and making more of his terrible EO’s! NONE of the Republican candidates would bring that additional terrible damage to America.
It is obvious to me that ALL Santorum thinks about is winning, not about what would be best for America. I pray Newt ends up being our nominee, but as I have stated before, I would vote for WHOMEVER is our nominee against Obama!
(Hey...I understand...there were still some "Whigs at heart" even as the Whig party evaporated for good).
Look the GOP right now has only 29% of all registered voters.
If Romney is nominated, who knows what % will be left. I know I'm leaving the GoP if that happens & so will hundreds of thousands of others...
If I wanted to push somebody way to the left of John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson, I would have considered the Dems long ago.
People are just too short-sighted if they only have Obama on the brain. He's only eligible for 4 years. But a Romney nomination = a GoP that has lost its bearings and no longer represents ANY semblance of a conservative constituency beyond the next four years..there'll be nothing "conservative" left to conserve...it'll have all gone by the wayside in the establishment.
A residual GoP -- with less than 20% of all voters after 2012...won't be worth propping up.
Slay the dragon and be done with it.
From 1830-1850, the Dems had a segment of the party called the Barnburners. They figured the only way to get rid of the rats in the barn was to burn it down. They failed. And now the Demo'rats are nothing but rats.
It's taken over 150 years, but now the GoP is at that same juncture. If Romney's nominated, the barn needs a burning...and if fellow FREEPERs refuse to address the rats, that's all the party will soon be...and certainly in any interim, that's all who will be in control.
(How many posters have said: "Anybody but Obama." It wouldn't matter if their candidate is the anti-Christ to them. It wouldn't matter if their candidate is a reincarnated Hitler to them. It wouldn't matter if the candidate promised millions to shed their blood on the altar of the abortion industry. They don't care. They have no real standards. They have no real convictions other than the basic "anti-Obama" conviction. They themselves are RINOs in sheep's clothing. They are like the crowd @ Christ's crucifixion, "Give us Barabbus" -- Barabbus being a murderer...but they didn't care, because the crowd was so anti-Christ. Here, the crowd is so anti-Obama, they cry for their Barabbus)