Why are some Libertarians supporting Mitt Romney? Mitt isn’t a “small government conservative”!
Maybe they finally get the “big picture” now.
If the American people vote for Obama's re-election there is not a snowballs chance in hell there will ever be a small government President elected. Regardless of Romney's past he is running now against big government and that is how he is being potrayed by Obama. Most independents have no clue about conservatives fears about Romney and see him as more conservative than Obama. If they vote for Obama anyway then it's all over for conservatives at the national level.
From the legal dictionary (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Mitigation+of+Damages):
Mitigation of DamagesThe use of reasonable care and diligence in an effort to minimize or avoid injury. Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a person who has suffered an injury or loss should take reasonable action, where possible, to avoid additional injury or loss. The failure of a plaintiff to take protective steps after suffering an injury or loss can reduce the amount of the plaintiff's recovery. The mitigation of damages doctrine is sometimes called minimization of damages or the doctrine of Avoidable Consequences.
When you nail plywood to your windows or put sandbags around your house prior to a storm, you are technically damaging your house and creating work for yourself (as all this will have to be undone at a later time), but you are preventing the greater damage that would be done by a storm breaking out your windows and flood waters getting into your house.
Voting for Romney is how you protect against the damage a 2nd Obama term would do.
Mitigating damages is smart.
>>Why are some Libertarians supporting Mitt Romney? Mitt isn’t a “small government conservative”!<<
Possibly because either Romney or Obama will be the President for the next four years and Obama is a big government socialist/Marxist, sort of the opposite of what Libertarians stand for?
Gary Johnson is an interesting candidate and would make a far better President than Obama, but voting for him now just helps Obama win. Elections are about choices, and we don’t always get our personally preferred candidate onto the final ballot.