Sorry. I fear an electorate with no principles left infinitely more than I fear Obama.
That’s how you create the sort of moral and political environment conducive to the creation of a Soviet Russia or a Nazi Germany.
You should fear Obama, for "the fish rots from the head." He has mounted a full-scale attack on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. (Just look at what he is doing to religious liberty — he's targeting the moral source that orders a just and peaceful society.) An electorate that is "principled" will remove him from office.
That’s how you create the sort of moral and political environment conducive to the creation of a Soviet Russia or a Nazi Germany.
Obama is the Demoralizer-in-Chief: He is acid to civic virtue. His goal is to create maximum dependency of the citizenry on government largesse.
I do not fear the creation of a Soviet- or Nazi-style state under Romney. I do fear the creation of a Venezuelan-style state under Obama, eventually one with a "president for life."
The thought occurs to me that you and your friends are so deep down in the weeds that you simply do not see the "Big Picture" here.
In my last, I mentioned Saul Alinsky. WRT Mitt Romney, it is clear that you have taken a page out of Alinsky's playbook, Rules for Radicals, in that you isolate — "freeze" — target — thus to destroy him. I call that character assassination, pure and simple.
Must go visit my elderly parents. Don't know when I'll be back.