Excuse me, tsowellfan, I say this with the utmost repect and lack of rancor (I've admired many of your posts over the years; I am a Sowell fan as well and my late, very wise, beloved father was well read on Sowell and considered his political mind the best of the best) but ... you're still willing to sanction Romney, consent to Romney, because you think he'd be better than Obama?
When it is abundantly clear that he would only be different?
You are on the verge of giving Romney your blessing -- no matter your intent, your vote for Romney would be perceived and acted upon as your blessing and support for everyting Romney is.
There is much more liklihood of conservatism being dealt a death blow in a Romney landslide than if Obama won on a plurality. (That alone is reason enough to vote FOR a plurality by voting third party.)
I am just dumbfounded reading your true and wise assessments of Romney here and there on FR, and then reading that you are planning to vote for him if it comes down to O v R. Truly, if one need evidence of how deranged ABO is ... it is in abundance here.
Voting for Romney in hopes of even the tiniest improvement, is like drinking salt water while stranded at sea in the hopes that it's better than no water at all. Hard and illogical as it seems, the only option at sea is to hunker down and wait for rain of fresh water; better to vote how you can (and that is third party) to weaken the mandate of whichever statist wins, and hunker down and fight Obama with the fresh water of conservatism.
I cannot argue with anything you said. You are 100% correct!
Well said. Another factor with a Romney win and him maintaining the status quo (which he will do) is it will put us in a LOSING position in 2016 and the Dems will put up someone WORSE than Obama.
God help this country.