The soul of the country is at stake.
I’m with you Jim... there’s nothing remotely conservative or constitutionalist about Romney, and we can’t possibly use the GOP to restore America to its founding principles of limited, constitutional, decentralized government until we first reform it by purging the establishment RINOS wedded to the status quo out of their leadership positions and by defeating their candidates in the primaries/caucuses.
Unfortunately, the only way that these establishment RINOs and liberals in the party will get the message that they better not shove their candidates down our throats anymore is if we refuse to support their worthless candidates in the general elections as part of a “lesser of two evils” bargain. They must be made to understand that from now on we will not support their candidates against the enemy unless their candidates credibly stand for the opposite of what the enemy does rather than just a paler shade of the enemy’s agenda.
While it is unfortunate that we will likely have to endure another terrible four years of Obama due to Romney being shoved down our throats (KEY POINT: it will be the fault of the RINOs and the party establishment if that happens, not the fault of we true conservatives), sometimes in politics (as in life) you have to be willing to endure severe pain in the short term as the price you pay in order to carry out a strategy that will eventually lead to success in the long term. We “fix” the GOP first... THEN we use it as a finely chiseled weapon to defeat the democrats and undo the past century worth of collectivism. History (and logic) suggests that it will not work in the reverse order.
As my state hasn’t had it’s primary yet I’m throwing my support behind the remaining candidate that is most clearly the opposite of Romney/Obama.