This is the way of reason and of true patriotism.
All of this defeatism and apocalyptic talk is for poseurs.
The tea party movement started from nothing three short years ago. At the time the leftists were rolling, talking about a "progressive realignment" that would last generations, and talking about "the death of the Republican Party".
In 2010 the tea party movement knocked the leftists right onto their butts and they haven't gotten back up yet.
However now, just because we had no attractive, unifying conservative standard-bearer step forward to run for the 2012 GOP nomination, the ABRs on this site want to declare that the greatest grassroots conservative movement of our lifetimes is finished, and the whole Republic is doomed.
Nuts!
Romney is not, nor was ever a Conservative.
He is for bannign guns, homosexual marriage, Romneycare/Obamacare.
He speaks out both sides of his mouth AND other orifices.
At the same time.
But hey, we’re supposed to just follow him, right?
And then what?
What will you say when he starts his liberal pandering AGAIN?
Will you apologize, or will you go full rabid zealot on us for opposing him just as much as we opposed Obama’s liberal actions?
The choice between two evils is still evil.
We had Conservatives in this race, people like you chased them out.
Or frauded them out of delegates, like in Florida.
And we are not suposed to notice this or say anything?
Bite me.
We're definitely going to continue to drift to the left until we have a conservative in the White House. Romney's election will eliminate that possibility for eight years.