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Oh don’t worry, all these noble conservatives are going to write in loser candidates and go home and feel all proud that they gave Obama four more years to do more harm than they can possibly imagine. After all, Romney is the new anti-christ now don’t you know ...

Those that compare Obama to Romney and think they are equal are worse than fools, they don’t deserve to even vote they are so ignorant.

Someone made a very good point earlier in this thread that I've been considering for a long time as well.

No politician can accomplish anything, much less get reelected, if he completely turns his back on his political base. And no matter how far to the left Romney would go, the Democrats would still run someone to oppose him.

Regardless of where Romney's center truly lies, and even if he is nothing more than a sheer opportunist, the fact that he needs support from rank and file Republicans will force him to be more conservative than Obama.

Those that compare Obama to Romney and think they are equal are worse than fools, they don’t deserve to even vote they are so ignorant.

Oh, that is just being silly. We "noble conservatives" understand that Romney may be as liberal as Hillary Clinton, but he's not quite the marxist socialist that Obama is.

The point is ... we recognize when the rope-a-dope is being pulled on us. And some suckers (perhaps like you) are being fooled into supporting a candidate comparable to Hillary Clinton as the new measure and standard of all things "conservative".

In 2008 would you have preferred Hillary Clinton over John McCain? No? I wouldn't either. Doing so would have pushed the "center" far to the "left". I wouldn't give her four to eight years to redefine the conservative point of view on all issues. Jumping on the Romney bandwagon is akin to asking Hillary to run as the republican candidate --- although she is likely closer to "center", more business friendly, and probably more competent than Romney.

Don't let the liberals trick you into merging the democrat and republican parties into one big progressive tent. Romney represents "conservatism" like Benedict Arnold represent "patriotism". Sure, they run in the same circles, know the same people, and all "love America" ... but they are very different at their core indeed. Prefer the enemy standing before you in the open; fear the enemy hidden at your back.