I agree we need to push back in MEASURABLE ways. Voting for someone that is going to get no more than three percent of the popular vote and has no chance of winning even one state is measurable but the measurement is ZERO.
If we support Romney we could possibly take the senate by the coat tails. With the House and Senate controlled by Republicans they will be able to put great pressure to push Romney to the right on every major issue. We could actually repeal Obamacare and even get several more right leaning SCOTUS appointments.
If Obama wins, even if we take the Senate and retain the house things will be a lot worse for us. You will be sick when Obama veto's the repeal of Obamacare and you realize Romney would have signed it. Obama will get LEFT leaning if not outright socialist hacks on the court.
There is simply no comparison between the two possible outcomes.
As far as the Tea Party stepping up a notch past peaceful I don't think that's a good idea at this time. We are not there yet. We still have several peaceful ways of regaining our liberty. A Constitutional Convention is another tool provided by our founding documents. I do think we agree that we are running out of time and running out of nice ways to regain our liberty.
Friend, you really need to brush up on Romney's record in office. Not only is he the grandfather of Obamacare, his appointments to the bench while Governor, were almost ALL left-liberals.
To think that he'll suddenly turn over a new leaf and govern as a conservative, if elected, is wishful thinking in the extreme.
I'm going to let all that rest now, because the boss has asked us to observe a truce of sorts on this argument. On the deep issues, I know that we're in agreement, and that's what I'm going to do my best to concentrate on.
As far as the Tea Party stepping up a notch past peaceful I don't think that's a good idea at this time. We are not there yet.
I've said elsewhere that the ballot box is FUBAR, and that the soap box is busted. A lot of folks wonder whether the only box left is the cartridge box, but I think there's one more we can try before we go to the box of last resort, and that is the tool box.
What I mean by the 'tool box', is civil resistance. There are all sorts of methods of resistance that we patriots can employ that fall short of outright rebellion, but which have the potential to make Congress and the Executive branch step back from the precipice.
Folks need to get a little creative, and use their imaginations, but civil disobedience isn't a new political tactic. It's been successfully employed many times in this country and elsewhere to effect political change.
Recall the student 'sit-ins' of the sixties? Those kids made the authorities arrest them for violating simple ordinances, but their protests gained tremendous press, and caused the establishment to step back. I'm suggesting that we take a look in our 'tool box' and see what sorts of things we might be able to do that would garner similar attention.
I guarantee you, that if 1,000 people painted the word, 'taxpayer' on their shirts, duct taped their mouths, then sat down in the middle of Times Square, it would make news around the world, and put Congress and the administration on notice that we mean business.
Think on it. I truly believe that it's the next ratchet up from where we are.