No, it couldn't. Conservatives pull the great middle one way (when we're not busy pulling against each other) and radicals pull it the wrong way. Failure to support McCain in 2008 -- not some nebulous smoke-filled back room conspiracy -- has led to the quite obvious (at the time, check it out, I wasn't the only one saying so on FR, some of the others have since thrown up their hands and left FR for good) outcome that those who bother to run at all are less conservative than the candidates in 2008. Don't vote? You don't count. The apparent steady decline of conservative influence on the Republican field comes directly from that, regardless of the Pontius Pilate style handwashing that goes on around here.
- "Those arguing against Romney have gone from misguided, to Naive, to pouting children, to unpatriotic people who support Obama. Sadly they are serious." -- Idaho_Cowboy right here [2012]
- "A foreigner, a Muslim and a Marxist walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What can I get you, Mr. President?" -- posted by Jeff Chandler [2011]
- "Well, if helping to put BamBam in the White House makes you sleep better, have at it. I hope you sleep as well after he loses another war for us, and drags the country into a depression that will make the one back in the 1930s look like a Sunday School picnic." -- Turret Gunner A20 [2008]
- "The purists, who will stay at home because our candidate couldn't walk on water without getting the soles of his Teva's wet will have gifted us with another Clintoon pillaging." -- Grampa Dave [2008]
- "I will continue to vote R not because I'm convinced they can save the Country-but that they will lose it more slowly. " -- mikeybaby right here [2006]
If you read the quote in context, I hope it is clear that I am expressing my grief over the names the Anti-Romney folks have been called in this forum. I am not calling them those names myself.
Why in the world is it our duty to support McCain and now Romney? Maybe McCain lost and Romney may well lose, because they are liberal candidates who don't hold the principals of our founders.
You can dang well bet I'll vote for every conservative for every position on the Ballot, nobody is talking about not voting or staying home.
[scathing sarcasm] BTW- I've seen your pictures, and I'm scared, so scared in fact I'm washing my hands of my principals and voting for Romney[/ End scathing sarcasm.]
Fear mongering does not equal logic.