AMEN, EVigilance. Caribou, there was a time when I would have voted for a RINO like Romney for the same "pragmatic" reasons that guide your thinking, but I've gotten a little wiser as I've gotten older, and I hold 100 percent with Jim Robinson here. A Romney win would be a loss for America, and I will not vote for that kind of thing anymore.
I say "anymore" because Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom I voted for, taught me a lesson; if I had it to do over again, I would let his very liberal and racist opponent, Bustamonte, win because in the long run, Arnold has done more damage to the GOP and California than Bustamonte could have done. And I am one of the few who think that in fact, Romney would have been, and would be in the future, WORSE than Obama. Obama's desctruction is bringing things to a head while there's still a chance we can remedy the problem; Romney would have continued the leftward socialist path under the GOP banner, destroying what little is left of the GOP brand, and made it so bad that by the time the next Obama got into office, it would be too late to remedy things.
Learn from Schwarzenegger. He is proof that a RINO can be worse for America and the hope offered by the Republican party, than a statist, socialist liberal Democrat.
Gettin’ a bit irritated here, Finny. I have not said that I thought we should have a “RINO” for a “candidate”.
EternalVigilance started it by implying that I said something that I didn’t. I would hope that this person will correct it so that I don’t have to read yet another “ping” based on something I never said in the first place.