Now I am not for Romney by any stretch of imagination, my preference this time went Palin, Perry, Cain, Newt, (Sometimes it was Newt then Cain) then it was Newt, I tried to like Santorum be wouldn't let me (but he is preferable to Romney!) now its Arggh! So please no name calling!
Too many people here do that and sometimes this place sounds as rational as DemoRat Underground!
There are two driving principles behind my vote, it would be ideal if both principles could satisfied then great. Hasn't happened since 1980 & 1984. But only one is a sufficient condition to vote, this time again I will be voting to deny power to the most dangerous candidate. Romney mostly has foolish views, he is not an enemy of American prestige and power. Even if we think of him as Gordon Gecko, a Zimbabwe version of the USA does him no good. (And don't say he would go off shore! Where to Europe hah! Look at Europe! Can you say PIIGS! We fall, they fall, all fall!) Zero and his ilk are too much the ideologue to see that! They actually want that Zimbabwe America. With Zero we go off the cliff at high speed and accelerating, with Romney we still head for the cliff but are decelerating. So there maybe time to turn things around so that Greece or Zimbabwe is not our future.
Strong GOP majorities in place can check any Romney accesses, it would be much harder to check a 2nd term Zero. First Zero would try to govern like Chavez because a) He is an arrogant ass, b) No political cost! He would dare the GOP to impeach him. If we could not impeach Clinton we aren't going to impeach the firs black president. Look we can't even get a handle in Zero's actual origins and story. So impeach? Impossible!
No, it isn’t “functionally” a vote for Obama, and mincing words and posting long-winded analysis won’t change that. Your vote only goes to the person you pull the lever for - it doesn’t magically equate to an Obama vote, and it doesn’t “take votes away” from anyone, either.
Clintons impeachment conviction failed in the GOP-e controlled Senate because they believed it would be politically better to have a wounded Clinton still in office leading up to the next election. If they had voted simply on the facts, they would have convicted him.