Ditto, I’m really getting over this crap on here.
‘Whoever is the Republican nominee, will receive my vote.’
Does that include Jeb Bush?
Those were the good ol' days when it worked that way. Sadly I must acknowledge the reality as it has evolved in the Republican party. And it makes me realize that this 2012 primary is just Part II of the 2008 primary, and this time, ace-in-the-hole Palin is out of game for Romney; if she joined him, she'd be negating her own credibility.
Listen, my vote, like your vote, is an oar in the water. That's all it is, and not to use it would be dereliction. Facing up to facts, I see that we've reached the point where voting Republican requires me to vote against my own self-interest morally and financially. Voting for the Republican is as absurd as voting for the Democrat -- the only reason I'm given to vote that way is sheer panic and desperation to avoid Obama. It's a fact of life that people do stupid things when they react out of panic.
So I've got this oar in the water and the duty to use it. I know how I'm voting if it comes to R v O. It will be a third alternative, a viable alternative, risky but the ONLY alternative.
I'm going to vote to make liberalism weaker: I'm going to vote AGAINST both of them, and use my oar to direct a rightly course. As far as I'm conserned, rejecting Romney is a little bit like sculling. It's as nuts to vote for Romney as it is to vote for Obama. Sorry, that's the hard-core truth.
So we'll see whether or not Obama really is as awesomely Oz-like as Rally-Round-Romney Chicken Littles think he is. He's a little man behind the curtain.
I forgot — I pinged DO because of his perfect way of putting it: Romney is a bridge too far. Forget him.