Where have we heard that before? Weren't people promising that in 2008 if Obama won? Wasn't Obama Hysteria predicting martial law and suspension of the 2010 mid-terms? You may have forgotten all that hysteria, but I remember it well. If Obama was that powerful, don't you think he'd have done the gulags, etc., by now? What is stopping him now that wouldn't be stopping him with Congress even more empowered by conservative Republicans and himself in office on a plurality (that's what a third party vote is FOR -- a plurality) where a clear majority of Americans voted against him?
You are letting blind fear manipulate you into risking a landslide majority sanction for the destruction of this country under the "R" banner. An authoritarian statist by any other name is still a an authoritarian statist, and Romney's record CONFIRMS his status as an authoritarian statist. That is a hard, cold fact. Your vote for Romney will be a vote FOR government tyranny, not "against" gulags, etc.
The problem JL, is that a Romney landslide, which ABO risks in a very big way, would in no way "help" this country. STOP obsessing over Obama and START pondering the real world consequences of Romney. LOOK AT HIS RECORD. Romney has long advanced and promoted everything that is part of the problem. Just because he's not Obama and not outspoken in his contempt for the Constitution, doesn't mean he isn't every bit as lethal an agent of government tyranny.
And if the Zero gets in for another 4 years — with the knowledge that he doesn’t have to reign in any of his totalitarian impulses because he won’t be running again — do you REALLY think he’s going to be better than R.??? SERIOUSLY???
I think you’re laboring under a couple of misconceptions here: #1 that most on this board are advocating voting for Romney because they really like the guy (not true) and think he’s a staunch conservative (most don’t think that) and #2 that this is just another election and we can later fix whatever the Zero has in mind for us if he gets in again (don’t bet on it). HIS history shows that he has already accomplished in 3.5 years what some of the most RINO presidents we have had to date never even considered. I would FAR rather have a RINO in office that we can toss out in 4 years than a tyrannical despot who has no respect for the law and maybe won’t even leave if re-elected — EVER!!
I’ll repeat: anyone who thinks all of this is hysteria, fear mongering, etc... hasn’t been paying attention over the last 3.5 years. The Zero has done MUCH of what it was warned he would do. The idea that he would continue to do so if re-elected but at full tilt with no checks and balances to stop him should surprise NO ONE who hasn’t been asleep.