And please,please,*PLEASE* don't say you'll stay home or go third party.Remember,this is the *real* world we're talking here,not Utopia.
Well, I can’t speak for Jim, but I can speak for me. I voted for McCain in 2008 mostly because he had Sarah Palin on the ticket. At this point, even with Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, I don’t know if I could vote for Romney regardless of who’s on his ticket. I may well go third party or write in (if I’m still here in NC come 2012, it may be write-in—third parties are almost impossible to ballot here).
There are some things I like about him. I like his business experience. He could be an articulate and forceful spokesman for market-driven reform ideas on things like healthcare...except that he’s shown a willingness to do the exact OPPOSITE while in office. Basically, at this point, he’s wobbled so far all over the place that I don’t know what he actually believes deep down. I can’t vote for somebody like that. I can vote for a RINO (hey, I voted for McCain) if I think he’ll at least listen to conservative ideas. But I don’t think I can bring myself to pull the lever for somebody that I just don’t know I can trust.
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I know you didn't ask it of me, and I hope Jim Robinson (the man the MSM IDs as "Jim Thompson"), listen, PAL ---
I USED to think the way you did -- "This is the *real* world," blah blah blah etc etc etc. Then Arnold Schwarzenegger happened, I voted for him because after all, this was the *real* world, blah blah blah -- and I've LEARNED and will from now on apply what I've learned. I have learned that in politics, Liberal victories temporarily threaten American liberty and on the plus side, guarantee an increase in converts to conservatism.
What you condescendingly insist represents living "wisely" in the *real* world, allowing pragmatism to override conservative principle, guarantees the death of conservatism. HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK OBAMA EVER CAME TO APPEAR "CENTRIST" IN THE FIRST PLACE, instead of the far-left socialist that he IS?
When liberalism wins, no matter the name of the party, it will continue to win. You go ahead and vote for Romney, but understand that YOU are the one ensuring victory for liberalism, tyranny, and big government. Not me and not Jim Robinson.
You have not learned a thing. You are fulfilling Einstein's definition of insanity.
worry about that then...now we must unite against the RINOs and vilify them and destroy their chances of getting nominated....
Neither one. I’m not going to support those who are bent on destroying my freedom.
You had better hope that those disenfranchised people "stay home or go third party".
Because if they don't, they're going to be voting with a rifle from the rooftops.