For now AB, I can’t agree with your more. I too will also support Romney if need be, although not happily.
And hope that the GOP doesn’t do this again. I’ve got a local GOP story that will enrage you for the Blue Bloods NEVER give up.
If Romney gets the nomination, those of you who pull the lever for Romney will be voting FOR more and bigger government, more statism, government-controlled health care, government controls on energy production and use in the name of global warming, and the forced acceptance of open homosexuality in our military and civilian lives.
No matter how you rationalize it, THAT is what you will be voting for.
Fish writes: I too will also support Romney if need be, although not happily. And hope that the GOP doesn’t do this again.
Why on EARTH would the GOP stop doing it when they know darned well that you will vote for their guy even when you'd rather not? The only, the only way to get the GOP to stop doing this is to REJECT STATIST REPUBLICANS. Only when the statists lose -- ONLY WHEN THEY LOSE -- will they stop doing the damage they do. But the GOP establishment knows that Republicans like you will vote for Romney out of PURE FEAR.
The Democrat party and Obama are symptoms of the ailment, not the ailment itself. Our REAL enemy is STATISM.
Please be brave, have courage, and do the hard, scary, frightening thing: reject Romney under any and all circumstances, because if you vote for him, you will be voting FOR all the things that you stand against, and you'll be doing it because of fear. Fear is a great warning mechanism, but a very poor guide for making important, long-term choices.
The faint-hearted will vote for Romney, and if he won, it would be a coward's victory. If Romney won, things would get worse -- Congress would go left, the GOP would come to represent all the "gentler" statism that Romney embodies, and limited government Americans would be demoralized and disheartened to the point of extreme cynicism and apathy at the polls, they would lose all faith in our political system. All the things you hate about Obama would continue unabated under Romney, with Repbublican party SUPPORT because your vote told the GOP that you WANTED Romney.
If Obama wins, he'll be loathed even more than he is now because most Americans will have voted against him. Congress will move hard right. And MOST IMPORTANT, the GOP will grow stronger as the one hope American voters have as the party that stands for limited government, getting government out of our hair, leaving us the hell alone.
Romney would effectively kill the Republican party. If you vote for him, THAT is what you will be voting for.
Please rethink your decision on how you'll vote if he won the nomination.