Uh let's get something straight here. It was "YOUR" beloved side of the GOP who ran a candidate that said Obama would make a great POTUS and then surrendered the race to him. Do you remember that?
I've vote Constitution Party candidates in the POTUS General Election since 2000 but have voted for GOP Conservatives in the GOP Primaries first. But the primaries is part of the problem. The POTUS primaries need to be a one day national election so all states get an actual say in the matter. Right now Liberal states choose the candidate.
I guess the first thing to establish is I’m a constitutionalist, Tea Party Conservative, a Ted Cruze and Mike Lee Conservative. That means, it wasn’t my “beloved GOP” that ran a candidate that managed to win the primary.
It was your opinion of that candidate along with three million nine hundred and ninety nine other folks trying to teach the GOP a lesson, which is a whole other story and the reason we now twice have the worst President at any time in our history, other than perhaps Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter combined.
I think I know how you feel about candidates you don’t happen to like with an R behind their name that are not pure as the wind driven snow and don’t pass your smell test but feelings and reality are two different issues, and now you know how the vast majority of the rest of us feel having been kneecapped by the feelings of a very small minority who just can’t deal with reality.
You are a Vet and I respect that, so am I and I would still go into battle to protect your right to say and do what you feel is right according to your conscience, but from my perspective and the perspective of millions upon millions of voters who were hoping beyond hope to hog tie this piece of work we now have for a president, the ill cast votes or no votes of a very few have sunk us all to a new low, from which we now hope to recover in 2014.
Just to keep things in perspective, in my state we have almost the identical problem in the Senate race, with four candidates in the General Election, one dem two independents one of which is a flaming ex republican US Senator so far left he might as well be a democrat, a true conservative Republican running as an independent, and the coronation republican candidate who talks a great line but eight years as Governor has proven him to be a big spending government growing mainstream republican.
I feel your pain, because now I’m facing the same situation you did, that in this case could decide what party controls the US Senate for the next few years. A wrong vote could send a democrat to the Senate, or an Independent who would be a work across the aisle kind of guy because in his opinion Congress is broken. Or we end up with a mushy Republican in an attempt to vote for the true Republican. I still don’t know which trigger I’ll pull and the risks are high no matter how I vote because the race is really up for grabs.
The Constitution Party? Where do they have their national convention? In a phone booth? Indirectly, you and all you third party types (and I was a libertarian member) help hand elections to liberals. You aren’t a conservative...if you were you would DEFEAT Obama, not ELECT him.