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I hear what you're saying about motivations, and Romney may be a lot of things but he's not a reincarnated Hitler and he's definitely not Barry.

I know, but I could say it even a different way -- a hypothetical to make the same point:

Say Mitt got enough votes to win;
say Obama was still interested in a 2nd term, but had a "revelation" -- tweeked a few policies -- & presto, became GoP in 2019...
...& ran again for POTUS...
...GoP conservative candidates (AGAIN) split the conservative vote...
...& due to his minority status, let's say Obama became the GoP primary winner in 2020...

You would have had then -- in this hypothetical -- the very irony of FREEPERs telling us to vote for Obama...Why? (Because the Dem candidate is ALWAYS worse!)

I guarantee you, Rashputin: You can always find a POTUS candidate more "conservative" than the Dem guy running!

But if that's the ONLY standard we have, why bother to be GoP? I mean, as fieldmarshaldj uttered on a previous thread, darn us conservatives for wanting a conservative candidate and conservative policies...

(Imagine such "pickiness")

ObamaCare is not hypothetical.
The judges that have been appointed are not hypothetical.
The HHS mandate is not hypothetical.
Barry supporting queers marrying one another is not hypothetical.
The department heads are not hypothetical.
Who is hired for departments are not hypothetical.
Who is promoted in those departments is not hypothetical.
A corrupt Justice department isn't hypothetical.
Barry telling the Russians he will be more flexible is not hypothetical.
Five trillion plus in new debt isn't hypothetical.
Ignoring over a hundred years of bankruptcy laws in order to screw GM shareholders and payoff the UAW isn't hypothetical.
Destroying the coal industry isn't hypothetical.
Forcing a significant percentage of the electricity generating capacity of the nation to shut down isn't hypothetical.
A huge increase in prices at the pump isn't hypothetical.
Additional millions who have become unemployed in the past four years are not hypothetical.
The clock constantly narrowing the window of opportunity we have to turn the country around isn't hypothetical

and there are literally dozens more hard, cold, facts that exist in reality rather than a hypothetical cabbage patch somewhere.

Compared to all those realities, there's no hypothetical that makes any difference.

It's just like the people who I ran into after I got back from VN who would tell me how protesting against the war was morally equivalent to serving in VN. I spent years in hospitals and they figured that was no worse than spending years as a Divinity major or Education major to avoid the draft. They'd tell me how bad they felt when they heard Benny Whatever who went to VN was killed there. That was just as bad in their mind as looking for parts of your friend to put in a body bag with half his torso and dog tags. They had no common frame of reference because they could live in their own hypothetical world totally detached from reality. Consequently, they inflated little things in their little world to match the size of things that exist in the real world

This is the same sort of argument as far as I'm concerned. There's no real way to compare those who take a chance and try to help change things with with those who have lots of nice reasons to do nothing.

I often wonder how many of those who stay on the sidelines have kids or ever consider what they owe their children and grand children rather than what they owe themselves. Obviously they don't believe they owe their children and grand children the same freedom they inherited.

Some folks think that way, fine, more power to them. They enjoy talking the talk but walking the walk is too much hassle because it's an imperfect world and they have their own imaginary perfect world to play in. As far I'm concerned people who didn't vote for Romney decided to stand with those who shout, "It's all about me !!" and are comfortable being part of that crowd.

I realize that Jesus Christ is in charge so I can bear the result. I also know that those who refuse to care about their fellow man enough to even to vote aren't on the moral high ground they seem to think they're on. After all, Jesus Christ died for those who were yet unborn and people who sat the election out wouldn't even cast a vote for the unborn who might have been spared had Romney been elected. Imagine that pickiness.