Five Ways Conservatives Will Have to Sell Their Souls if Romney Wins

f you were trying to come up with the most atrocious candidate imaginable to go toe-to-toe with Barack Obama in 2012, you couldn't do much better than Mitt Romney. He was an unpopular moderate governor who lost 2 out of the 3 major elections he's run in and whose signature issue Romneycare is an enormous failure. Moreover, he's so uninspiring that he makes Bob Dole look like Ronald Reagan and that's before you consider his incessant flip-flopping that makes it impossible to really know where he stands on any issue.

Romney's candidacy also runs counter to almost every political trend in the book right now. He's the antithesis of everything the Tea Party stands for -- a moderate establishment-endorsed, principle-free Rockefeller Republican. On the other hand, he's like a bad guy straight out of central casting for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, a conscience-free 1 percenter who makes $10,000 bets and lectures the public about how corporations are people -- while hordes of poor and middle class Americans that he fired trail in his wake telling tales of woe about how Romney made their lives into a living hell.

At one time, I thought both Gingrich and Perry were more electable than Romney. I have, however, reassessed and now believe Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, and even Huntsman, who just left the race, are ALL more electable than Mitt. It's also worth noting that all of those candidates, including Huntsman, are more conservative than Romney. It's mind-boggling to consider the fact that if Romney wins, the conservative base will have chosen the guy behind Romneycare over the man behind the Contract with America, America's premier social conservative, and the best job-creating governor in America, all of whom would also be more electable.

That would be you, and the RNC, supporting Romney, who is NOT conservative.

I've never said that I support Romney. I have said that if he is the nominee, I'll support him but never have I said I support him in the primaries.

From your posts, you appear to have principles so unrealistic that you wouldn't even vote for Reagan were he running in this election.

Reagan signed abortion legislation into law. Reagan signed onerous gun control legislation into law. Reagan robbed Peter to pay Paul. Or were you even aware of that? LOL!

Stop blaming Romney for you and you ilks failure to have thought ahead 10-20 years ago when voting that in 2012, presidential candidates would be needed.

As a conservative, I cannot imagine a worse fate for America than four more years of unrestrained liberalism/socialism in our White House. That doesn’t mean that I’m willing to sell my soul for a liberal socialist who puts (R) after his name on the ballot to replace a liberal communist with a (D) after his name. I will vote in the primaries and in November, and I will vote to put the most conservative Congress possible in place, so that if we are stuck choosing between Romney and Obama, we will have some hope of surviving four more terrible years. As for my November vote for the White House, I will vote for a conservative. If I have to write in Palin/Newt or Cain/DeMint, I’ll do so, but I will not under any circumstances vote for Mitt. I understand the consequences of Obama holding power for four more years, but I also understand the consequences of a non-Obama cementing his socialist policies in place.

January 18th, 2012

"Mitt can't win and won't win.

He must be defeated now or the GOP is over.

Over.

Finito.

This election has already gone pear shaped"

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For posterity. Sucks to be right.

For those blaming principled conservatives: You mad bro?

Conservatism didn't do this to us, liberalism did this.