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Many FReepers here have stated they will not vote for Romney because they don’t want to compromise their principles. I understand and respect that, as I am not in the habit of compromising mine, either. But in my opinion, at this critical junction in our country’s history, it is not a time to stand defiant on principles. It is a time for us to step up to save the Republic, and we have a duty to do so by any means we can, and if that means voting for the lesser of two evils, so be it.

Although I wish that it were, this election is no longer about getting a true conservative into the White House. Short of divine intervention, that dream is currently comatose. Note that I did not say “dead” as I believe it will happen, but just not this time around. However, if Obama get re-elected, the dream is dead.

This election has become a desperate fight to save the Republic. Not only for us, but for the future generations of Americans who will have to live with the consequences of the decisions we make here and now. The decisions we make today will – either positively or negatively – directly impact their lives in the future. Most of us – myself included – probably won’t be here in 30 years. But our children – our posteriety – will. And they will live and die based on the descisions we make today.

The left doesn’t stand on any principles. They never have and they never will. They are Godless, secular, materialistic entities. They don’t care about right or wrong. They don’t fight fair. They will cheat, lie and steal in order to keep Obama in power. I believe it is time we fought back. I believe it is time for us to set aside principles momentarily and make the hard decisions that we must make in the present in order to save this country for the future.

First, Romney is nothing more than an opportunistic RINO politician. He will bend in any direction that a wind will blow him. He is not grounded by any principle of which I am aware which means he is guided by whatever issue is most strongly and dearly held by the group that has the most power to put him into the Oval Office. Since he is a “Republican” that means we are the ones who can put him there.

Romney certainly is not motivated by higher ideas or by patriotism – he will do what he needs to do to get elected to Presidency because he believes it’s “his turn.” He will side with and pander to the group tha can get him in there in order to get elected.

Secondly, it is for this reason I don’t perceive Romney to be a hardcore Socialist who would continue the devastating destruction that Obama has wreaked upon our nation. If Romney can get elected as President, he’s going to want to have what every President wants to have and that is a second term. In order to do that he must continue to bend in the direction of those that put him there. In other words, he can be controlled.

Thirdly, Obama cannot and will not be controlled. Our testicular-challenged “Representatives” have shamefully demonstrated time and again their sophomoric inability to protect and defend the Constitution as they have sworn to do. If Obama is re-elected we are guaranteed to lose the Republic – guaranteed no matter what. Obama has already proven beyond any doubt that he has absolutely no respect for the Constitution. Given a second term, Obama will destroy our country. In four years, the America that we grew up knowing and loving will cease to exist.

Does this mean I want Romney to be President for 2 terms? No. To me, putting Romney into the Oval Office is nothing more than keeping the chair warm for the next four years while we (a) conduct damage control on the effects of Obama’s socialist policies already put into place, and (b) find and build up a strong conservative candidate for 2016. In the meantime, Romney can be controlled, especially if we keep the House. Even more so if we can keep the House and take the Senate.

While Romney is keeping the chair warm, we focus on the 2014 mid-term elections. We force more RINOs out of congress and increase the number of conservatives. From there we look to 2016. By that time we should have a solid conservative candidate to run against Romney. Congress will be more conservative, the economy will start to turn around. Fence sitting Moderates will begin to see the Republican party as a vehicle for positive change, bolstering our 2016 Presidential candidate.

It’s a strategy, not a solution. This is a chess game that, in the end we must win. We must look beyond the next four years. It isn’t a matter of standing on our principles at this point in time. It’s a matter of swallowing the bitter pill that must be swallowed in order to get rid of the infection that is festering in the White House and causing the slow, painful death of our country.

I would rather compromise my principles on this specific issue, right now, than to sacrifice my child’s freedom in the future. I will gladly take all the vitriol I expect to have thrown at me for my decision now, than to hang my head in shame as all our children live and suffer under Socialistic rule in the future.

If we fail to stop Socialism here and now, in 2012, we fail all those who come after us. We will go down in the history books as the ones that didn’t care enough to save our country for future generations. By inaction, we waste all the sacrifices of those who came before us and who fought and died to preserve the Republic and liberty. Personally, I don’t want that on my conscience.

Bottom line, we either stand on the sidelines and allow an avowed Socialist to continue raping this country, or we put a “placeholder” in there through which we can control the ship for at least the next four years.