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I've very reluctantly - and tentatively - decided to take a carton of clothepins with me to the polling place and pull the lever for The-RINO-Whose-Name-I-Will-Not-Speak. Even still, the statement above is utter nonsense.
The GOP candidate is a leftist. He isn't as much of a leftist as Obama, but he is a leftist. There's a very strong case to be made that electing him could destroy the conservative movement permanently. He won't govern as a conservative. You know that. I know that. He'll govern as a Gerald Ford or a Bush. And he'll almost certainly fail. And "conservatism" will be blamed for the failure.
I loathe him. But I'll vote for him becuase I'm convinced that he MIGHT make marginally better Supreme Court appointments - though his record in Massachussetts makes that more of an exercise in faith than anything. And I may well be wrong.
It might well be that it would be better in the long run to let Filth get reelected and have the whole thing come crashing down on the Dems and the left. To me it's a 51/49 proposition.
So I'll vote for WhatsHisName. But a conservative could very easily and justifiably skip the President and vote downticket only, or vote 3rd party.
Hank
We might have had the luxury of voting 3rd party if Obamacare had been overturned. Then, gridlock might have worked out by simply stopping the Obama agenda. But I just don’t see anyway this country is better off if Obamacare stays in place, and once the goodies start being passed out in the next 4 years, no one who says they’re going to overturn it will be able to be elected as President. Romney is far enough out on the limb that he pretty much has to overturn it if elected, even though he would’ve passed it himself if he had been elected in 2008. It’s certainly hard to imagine Ryan defending the idea of keeping Obamacare.