As Rush says, I live in real-ville. We cannot dump “this loser.” He has enough delegates, most of whom are legally required to vote for him, to win the nomination. We can close our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, go “LA LA LA” and wish our guy or gal had won, but it doesn’t change reality.
Reality is we are stuck with Willard.
Reality is we have a Marxist in the White House now.
Reality is that with Obummer’s penchant for ruling by fiat and bypassing congress with the help of a fawning press, the next four years will be MUCH WORSE than the prior if he is re-elected.
Reality is that not voting or voting for a third party candidate will help the Obomination get re-elected.
Reality is that if you think you will “teach the Republicans a lesson” by not voting you may be doing your country irreparable harm, possibly leading to a violent second civil war.
He can be left to his own devices, and if he gets that nomination, that's what it's worth if he has none of the working party base with him.
So, where can a real convention be held real quick? Well, there's the big stadium in Indianapolis ~ huge place ~ three days there and we could have a candidate.
I'm actually less worried about him on matters of policy because Obama has moved left so hard, that it makes the decision an easy one -- at least for me. I don't like Romney's position on some issues, but Obama's positions are generally so much worse. Obama is willing to kill our pseudo-capitalist system deliberately, based on his belief that the government can "do it better". Whatever other valid criticisms there are of Romney, I still think he's a much bigger believer in capitalism than Obama ever was. And the social issues won't go anywhere anyway.
But I don't have much faith Romney can pull this off.
Reality is that a vote for a 3rd party can help grow a 3rd party
You want him, you vote for him. I’m not stuck with someone I never had any intention of voting for. I don’t vote for liars or Socialists, and since Willard is both...
What are you worried about? We surround them. I'm not advocating civil war, but it's time we brought this thing to a showdown anyway.
"It's too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards."
~ Claire Wolfe
You can roll over in surrender and vote for a stone-cold demonstrated liberal Democrat registered as a Republican and wish that he won't act like what he is ...
... or you can vote for a plurality and gamble on the fact that the last two times a liberal Democrat was elected president on a plurality, he was steamrolled by the Republican Revolution and then impeached -- in other words, pluralities have a history of FAVORING conservatives. We know that here in Realville.
Reality is that you folks in Wishville lack the courage to fight Obama and believe Republicans in Congress would lack it, too -- yet you wish what that same Congress will "hold Romney's feet to the fire." That isn't Realville, that's Wishville.
Reality is that not voting or voting for a third party candidate will help the Obomination get re-elected.
That sentiment lacks any address in Realville. In Realville, any and every third party vote is entirely neutral withe regard to favoring either major party candidate; it is MATH. Any and every third party vote counts toward reducing the popular vote count of whichever candidate wins. THAT IS MATH. But because you live in Wishville, where wishes are like fishes and you can have them fried, you can demonize those who refuse to vote the way you want them to by pretending that "a third party vote helps Obama get re-elected."
Over here in Realville, we would suggest you take up with HW Bush your idea that third party votes favor the incumbent when he's come to be loathed by the folks who voted for him previously, as Obama is becoming loathed as of now.
Over here in Realville, we remember all the boogie-man threats of executive orders and civil war and "American can't survive" etc. that have been levied at conservative Republicans since the days of Bill Clinton as a means to bully them into voting for liberal Republicans.
Meanwhile, in Wishville, where you and Rush live, you actually buy into the imaginary concept of "voting against Obama!" Maybe you can vote "against" in Wishville ...
... but here in Realville, we understand that indeed, on any ballot ever, you are only given the choice of voting FOR something.
I'm voting for a plurality because I live in Realville. You're voting for a stone-cold liberal Republican because you're in Wishville.
As Rush would say, "It is what it is."
The downside of that is getting increasingly hard to see.
Reality is that I am a conservative who happens to be registered Republican.
The GOP does not own my vote and I will support conservatives first. When the GOP-e GETS THAT THROUGH THEIR THICK SKULLS, and nominates a conservative, they can have my vote.