The other issue on my mind is that of allowing the fifth column to attach the moniker of conservative to Romney. His actions will be purposely misconstrued as conservative as well, even as we know them to be a continuation of socialist statism. If obamacare is upheld in whole or part the resulting catastrophe will also be attached to a four year Romney admin.
This is a huge point. If Romney's in the White House, it allows him to define "conservative", or more precisely, to redefine it according to the pleasure of the GOP-E, the way Bush 41 did, and to redefine us as crankers, soreheads, and most of all, losers -- us, the heirs and grateful sustainers of our ancestors' vision -- and break us to choreboy in the house our fathers built.