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Just look around here on FR. There is quite the schism on the Right and a great many who say steadfastly that they will never vote for Romney.

That would be me. I'm not voting for Romney; no way, no how.

Thereby handing Obama his second term.

No, it is not me handing it to Obama; it is the GOP not pushing a candidate worthy of my vote: I will not again vote for a slimeball like McCain. (And Romney is a slimeball.)

Besides, for all intents and purposes Romney is Obama.

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 Marxist             Fabian
 Socialist           Socialist
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They believe a viable 3rd party candidate will appear like magic, solidify the Right and beat Obama. As much as I'd like that to happen, I'm a realist.

Who said anything about a 3rd party candidate appearing at all? I certainly don't think that. I am just unwilling to "hold my nose and vote" again; I will instead vote with my conscience and if that "makes my vote useless" then so be it: though that is an indictment on the American system itself, if voting for one's conscience is useless.

Who did you support for Pres???
I was backing Bachman or Newt until they dropped out—then Santorum.

By the way, they now all endorse Romney. I guess they are just rinos too.

It seems to me that you would rather see the ship go down than to stay afloat until we can get some conservatives in the Congress to plug the leaks—even if Romney is in the WH.

Who said anything about a 3rd party candidate appearing at all? I certainly don't think that. I am just unwilling to "hold my nose and vote" again; I will instead vote with my conscience and if that "makes my vote useless" then so be it: though that is an indictment on the American system itself, if voting for one's conscience is useless.

As a strategy, this is so stupid. You vote the lesser of two evils. And you continue to struggle. You never get the opportunity to vote non evil candidate. If you think you can collapse the evil system by letting it go evil to the maximum, you are deluded.

Could Egypt get worse? It did. Can Syria get worse? It will. did France get better? Nope. Sit on your hands and Obama wins, the pit we are in just gets deeper. Is Romney going to return us to 1776. No. Can he make things better than what we have now. Yes.

IMPLEMENTS SOCIALISM

Your diagram illustrates my views about Romney perfectly. I just explained to another Freeper that the labels don't matter, as much as the effects created, which in Obama and Romney's case - are all too similar.

Thanks.