I agree with you that no one can argue with the facts in post 6, they are stone cold accurate.
Both you and deadrock are right.
Bush was bad enough. Romney will be far worse. We would probably be better off focusing on the House, Senate, and local races.
Whether Mittens wins or Obama wins, we are going to need conservatives in large numbers in Congress to stop Obama or Romney. When Bush was in, too many Rs gave him the benefit of the doubt and went along with the out of control spending, “nation building”, Medicare Part D, creation of DHS, creation of the TSA (and agreeing to let it unionize), bad affirmative action cabinet appointments, and a lot more.
At least with Obama, everyone is clear on who the enemy is. I’m afraid that with Romney, we’ll go along to be “loyal”, which just means we’ll be cutting our own throats.