It is not “gutless” to refuse to vote for your man Romney. It is the only honorable course left to those of us who love this country.
If Romney wins, you will live to regret your campaigning for him. He will be worse than Obama because he will support Obama-like policies and recruit RINOS in the Congress to assist him. He will be a bipartisan Obama.
But, go ahead, campaign for your man.
Hope you enjoy four more years of obama and the final destruction of our country. At least we have a chance with Romney. If Obama wins another reelection, do you really think 2016 will matter? Sorry, but we'll be finished.
Nice try, but Romney isn't our man...he's the GOP nominee. Romney sucks, but he isn't a Marxist and doesn't hate the country. The only meaningful choice against Obama on the GOP side is Romney. I wish this were not the case, but it is our reality! Voting for the third party is a vote frittered away.
At least many of us are choosing to deal with reality, and make decisions based off of this. We don't have time for platitudes!
Is reassuring Obama’s re-election the best scenario for the USA?
Voting is a civic duty is it not? How does throwing a tantrum and taking your ball and going home because you didn’t get your way beneficial to the country? I thought that part of being an adult or a good citizen was sometimes having to make decisions out of less than perfect options.
Yes, I have heard all of the arguments. NO MORE!! blah, blah blah. Or the better one, someone like Newt or Romney will make things worse and then it will get blamed on the GOP.
Those are all strawman arguments. One, I do not think that Romney could be worse than Zero. I definitely don’t support him. But if given the choice between him and Zero, I choose Romney. At least with him there is a snowball’s chance of getting something done to fix this mess, even more so with a GOP House and Senate. With Zero, there is no chance, no matter who controls the House and Senate. Not to mention the fact the we WILL lose the SCOTUS for a generation or two. And we know that Romney is a US citizen and does not hate this country.
Obviously, we all need to support our candidate in the primaries. But in the general election, we MUST be rid of Obama. If not, we can all pat ourselves on the back and gloat about how “principled” we are as the country we love circles the drain.
Besides, I do not know why sitting out the election if the “right” candidate (whatever that is) is not nominated considered the only position of principle. My position is also one of principle, defeat Obama. When I vote against Obama, I will be doing so with just as much principle as the person who withholds their vote because they didn’t get their way.
This is nothing personal towards you, it is just so frustrating to see this sentiment so prevalent on this site. Do you think the average voter thinks this way? They will vote one way or the other. If true blue Conservatives won’t support the GOP candidate, why should they? In the end, politics is the art of the possible.
You have to hand it to liberals and Fabian Socialists for one thing. They understand incrementalism. They seem to be smart enough to understand that in the real world you usually don’t get everything that you want in one fell swoop. Why can’t Conservatives understand this?