I may have missed your comment number 36 to “The Old Lady” but I stand by my comment that your comment “Never has the choice been so clear” is a false statement. When to similar candidates are running against each other the choice isn’t as clear as it would be if two candidates who actually held different positions were running.
What you missed was the urgency I meant to convey about the need to get conservatives elected down ticket and into congress, so that we can force the inevitable winner, who will be Romney, to the right.
Mark my word, Romney will win, and he will win big, not as big as a real conservative would, but consider Nixon vs George McGovern, and Humphrey. Like Bush, Nixon beat a couple of known big government leftists. He only beat Humphrey by 500,000 votes in 68, but he won huge electorally. Against McGovern he won huge though, he received 61% percent of the popular vote and lost only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in the 1972. After all the dust settled we now know Nixon was a much a Rhino, if not more so than Romney is.
Despite the fact that Nixon ran on a platform that was anti-big government, he supported programs that increased federal control over all our lives that would make FDR and Johnson both jealous. Just think of EPA, OSHA and remember Nixon also took us off the gold standard. Imagine how great our economic recovery under Reagan would have been if we had stayed on the gold standard. Well add these things to Johnson’s great society and our economy tanked. When Carter got elected and just made things worse. If it were not for Reagan defeating Carter, we would have been where we are today back in the “80”s.
As I said, I cannot vote for Romney for reasons I have stated time and time again here and other places. However, Romney is no Obama, but he is also no Reagan. He will be more like Nixon, and the two Bush’s who gave Democrats almost everything they wanted. That being said, we need conservatives in congress to force him to the right, or he will be like Nixon, Bush, and Bush who all moved left when the Democrat controlled Congress forced them.
So when I say the choice has never been clearer, I speak of Congress. Time to work as hard as we all can to get conservatives elected over Rhinos in the primaries, and then fire up the base to get a super majority congress to force Romney as far right as we can.
Does that correct any misconceptions about what it was I meant. Now I understand that would be a lot to read into what I originally wrote, but I often times forget that many around here already know where I stand and what I meant.
I hope that at least brings you to where I am at.