We can work hard to get conservatives in Congress to replace the profligate Democrats and RINOs, and it is they who will do the work of legislation that will cut taxes, and make changes in Federal programs like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Sallie Mae, and attempt to cut funding to programs like Planned Parenthood. It won't be either the President or the Vice President who will do that, so their philosophies won't come into play, other than to have give an overall idea.
Sitting this election out in a snit over Romney, or his choice of Veep, is frankly cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, because the lack of a vote for Romney only increases Obama's chance to be re-elected. And considering what Obama has done during the past four years, we simply cannot afford four more years of him as President.
re: “Rush seems to be simply saying that we have two choices for President, so if you don’t like either, you can choose the lesser of two evils.”
The irony is that any candidate - even your favorite - has evil/sin in them - this is true of even the most conservative one. All of us are sinners - all do evil from time to time.
The question is - do you vote for more evil or less evil?
Put another way - do you vote for more good or less good?
We vote for the most good and the less evil we can get.
Even if the candidate is only 1% less evil than the other one, you obviously vote for the less evil. It’s a no-brainer.
The problem with some is that they think that both Romney and Obama are equally evil. I think that way of thinking is so twisted that it is pointless to argue with those who conform to that idea. Especially the ones who think Romney is GREATER evil than Obama! Oy vey.
Well said.
Yours is one of the few sane posts on this thread.
Well said (and you might read my recent post that mirrors your sentiments).
To add to your points, I think the country has gone so far left that it’s now become too big of a leap to hope and pray that the left-washed morons in this country could elect a true conservative.
To heal the political culture in this country (leftist now) can only be done gradually. So, we get a RINO in 2012, then we can run a true conservative in 2016.
Those here who don’t realize the sad truth about our foolish/naive/leftist electorate are delusional.
It’s so bad that we almost need a Trojan Horse candidate (one who can convince them to elect them and then go way conservative once in office).
“And though some think Romney another sort of devil, he really IS our only choice to defeat Obama.”
Romney IS a devil. My “goal” is not to remove Obama, it is to establish conservatism. Romney WILL NOT DO THAT.
Plus, he is a liar, liberal, abortionist, homosexualist, and government statist....he is antithetical to conservative principles. Trying to eradicate Obama with Romney is akin to attempting to extinguish a fire using a flammable liquid instead of water. You don’t replace a liberal with another liberal. You just keep things bad, but in a more insidious way.