[Antoninus]

But let's get back to your original point. Stop insisting that because someone supports a different candidate or strategy than you, (in most cases a more realistic strategy), that it means a person isn't a conservative.

There are only a few choices for why anyone who is really conservative supports Mitt Romney:

1.) Willful ignorance.
2.) Actual ignorance.
3.) Believes politics is more important than principles.

That's it, in a nutshell. And there is NO excuse for a conservative to have supported this charlatan from day one.

[TAdams8591]

Romney is running on a conservative platform, has conservative support, will be beholding to conservatives and therefore is going to have to govern that way, or risk his second term. That’s the way it works and most people seem to understand that. Unfortunately, in your ignorance, you don’t.