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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.

Well, Santorum endorsed Romney as the more conservative alternative to McCain in 2008. Romney hasn't moved anywhere except to the right since then.

We're now seeing the shunning of anyone who has decided to endorse Romney (or the more generic "whomever the GOP nominates) at this point as not being "real" conservatives either. So Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Newt Gingrich (who has said he'll support Romney as the nominee), and even Sarah Palin are all out too. Fools and/or traitors all!

So, uh, who is left at this point?

Nobody is under any illusions here that Romney is a conservative dream candidate. He's not. But on most issues, he's clearly to the right of Obama, even if he's not as far right as we'd like. And I can't think of any issue on which he is to Obama's left. He still at least gives us the rhetoric of capitalism, opposes Obama's plan to massively hike taxes, wants to reduce regulation, supports the Keystone pipeline, opposes ObamaCare as a federal program, etc. He's not perfect, but he's significantly better than Obama. According to Palin, "infinitely better".

RomneyCare is a terrible, and if Romney was running for governor in my state, I'd fight as hard as I could. But he's not. And as long as he opposes ObamaCare, even on the grounds of federalism, that still makes him much, much better than Obama on that.

It's not that he's conservative. He is, as Gingrich as accurately labelled him, a "Massachusetts Moderate". But that is still significantly better than being a Chicago Socialist.