It looks like we could go back and forth on this all day but in the end the question is “who will you be voting for?”
Sure, I am disappointed that Santorum (he was my choice) isn’t our candidate, but you will NEVER EVER catch me voting for Obama. If you choose to stay home you will be helping Obama get elected. If you vote for a 3rd party candidate you will be helping Obama. So what is your plan?
Who, exactly are you asking me to put my support behind?
I went from Perry, to Gingrich, to Santorum. (Those 2 disappointed me when it became obvious that one needed to throw his weight behind the other.)
So, since I cannot support Mitt, I’ll be supporting the Constitution Party, which is already on our ballot here in Ohio. It has been showing well the last few elections, and there’s a real possibility of having it build into a local force here in southern Ohio.
The advent of the Republican Party proved in the 1850’s that building a new party, given the electoral college restrictions in our constitution, must start at the level of congressional districts. The basic reason for running a presidential candidate while a party is building from the ground up is visibility, name brand stuff. The real work is at county, state legislature, and ultimately congressional district level.