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” I think we each need to make a sober assessment of whether its a gamble that is worth taking. “ <<<

I believe there is no gamble whatsoever here. The “sober assessment” business is standard practice for every election. It is sold to us every cycle by the Establishment, even the *conservative* media, our local moderate Republicans, and fluffed up for us, politely, by the Democrat flacks in the beltway media. (The only occasion when they are polite.) And it works. We nominate old empty suit, milquetoast moderate, bland and uninteresting, and a leader of no one, no fight, substance lite, but for what he has hustled in Congress, through plum committee appointments, ingratiating himself through compromise, for power and influence. OF COURSE, IN EVERY CASE, WE LOST.

Romney is the only Socialist on our ticket. ( I have no words for describing Ron Paul.) And we are going to carry his water? Not a chance. If the Marxists, the Socialists and Liberals, altogether Godless, want him then let them carry his water and vote up for him. We will be done as a nation short of another Civil War.

The nation is all but gone now, but for worsening. Even if this self promoter should eek out a win, Romney lends no hope, and the final blow to capitalism, taking the freedom to work right along with it.

Our party has been co-opted. Conservatives, Christians and Evangelicals, and Constitutionalists have no place here. We shall not fit, strangers in our own homeland.

American education guarantees churning out well groomed and more little Marxists, unabated, out of control, for at least another generation. We are all become Godless.

:) Aren’t you glad you pinged me? Sorry about that, but this election is our very last hurrah. Bank it, or brave up and try to block it.

This is being fed to us predictably this cycle as well. If a Republican ran like a Republican, we could sweep. The nation is crying for leadership and goodness, confidence and direction, from our nominee.

I agree with this, and with most everything else in your post, save for one problem: While there are a number of people out there who could run like a Republican, show leadership, goodness, confidence, and direction and beat Obama on a conservative message, none of them decided to run for President this year. Instead, we have a number of mediocre candidates, each of whom has serious problems.

We shouldn't have to trade principle for a chance to beat Obama, and we deserve better than the choice we've been given. However, in the words of William Munny, deserve's got nothing to do with it.

I would ultimately love to make this race a stark choice between a continuation of Obama's failed policies and a strong conservative alternative. I am just not convinced that any of the candidates can accomplish that. I am skeptical of Perry's ability to articulate conservative policies, I suspect that the focus with Santorum would be on his social positions, and I worry that everyone would be too distracted by Gingrich's baggage, unlikability, and inconsistent positions to listen to what he has to say. In other words, with any of those three, we run the risk that the race will become a referendum on our nominee rather than on Obama.

With Romney, while I certainly don't think he's the President we need, he's better than the one we have, and I think he's inoffensive to enough voters that the focus will be on Obama's failings - specifically because he is bland, moderate, and uninteresting. That may be a weak choice, but I am not ruling out the possibility that he is the worst choice except for all the others.

All that said, I don't currently plan on voting for Romney. If I were voting today, I'd vote for Gingrich. Despite my many misgivings, I have a ton of respect for the only candidate who can do more than spout empty platitudes and bar napkin policy positions.