You failed to answer it.
By the way, I didn't opt out of voting. I voted. It angers me when people who should know better stay at home in protest. That's betrayal of blood shed for every American's right to vote. If you're informed, you have a duty to vote even when you don't want to. You USE that vote.
bert, in voting for Romney, you used that vote to confirm leftism whether it lost or won.
I used my vote to confirm conservatism, with a vote that REGISTERS as a rejection of leftism. I voted third party. Perot's plurality split aided conservatism. Liberalism lost in both parties, and conservatism gained; Clinton got slammed with the Republican Revolution his first term, and was impeached in his second. Only a fawning media and crooked elections have made him what he is today. Don't waste your vote on leftism OR on betraying the blood shed for it. Vote for what is right. Romney is wrong, straight down the line.
That's what I voted for and will vote for again if necessary. I've already spent the last several decades following your strategy. When is it going to start working? NEVER.
Do you wonder why, after 20 plus years of voting as you counsel here, the goal of conservatives remains totally elusive?
Because when you vote "against," you're hunting unicorns. Totally elusive prey.
drivel....
You assume that you can get what you want....... always
In voting for Romney I voted for the best of the two candidates that could be elected. Jesus Christ was not on the ballot. I voted for the Republican that was for the best assemblage of traits offered.
There was no pure conservative candidate and based on the disention constantly demonstrated on FRee Republic, there never will be. There is no homogenity in the conserative movement. Principles are so strong that a candidate lacking a single principle will be shunned by some that view life through a paper towel tube.
Not only is Ronald Reagan dead, there is no candidate with his charisma on the horizon. Many Conservatives will therefore again have a chance to be agin the field and continue to cop out