[Finny]

If the Republican nominee had been Ron Paul, would you extend to him the same "HE'S NOT OBAMA!!" confidence of improvement? Hillary Clinton is "NOT OBAMA!!" either, though IIRC she was, long ago, a Republican. If she switched back to her original party affiliation, would you vote for her to replace Obama?

I ask that question in all seriousness. How far is too far for you?

ABO is short sighted. You are absolutely guaranteed a bad outcome when you vote for a liberal Democrat, and any honest review of Romney's record reveals that "liberal Democrat" is exactly what he is, though he's registered as a Republican.

Desperation often leads to choices regretted later. Republicans' and conservatives' desperation for "HE'S NOT OBAMA!!" is paving the way to a very bad choice. The better risk is to stand and fight the real enemy, which isn't Obama, but liberalism.

[God luvs America]

Ron Paul’s a fool....i told all my Hillary hating friends during the primaries 2008 the same thing; you may hate Hillary but obama is a danger to this nation...

ABO is not short sighted when faced with choices at hand...desperation??? so what do you recommend people do??? not vote??? vote for a 3rd party candidate???

[Norm Lenhart]

It would be an interesting exercise to go back to the Bush Era on FR and see just how many of the ABOers were relentlessly mocking the abject stupidity of the left for screaming “ANYBODY BUT BUSH!”

I’ll bet that of the Freepers currently howling “ABO!”, a good number were right there railing on them.

Oh...but now the shoe is on the other foot. Suddenly they have adopted the exact same mindset.

Bush/Obama will destroy America? Check.

And the ones that wern’t there then, well, it should make them feel good to have adopted the very mindset that every conservative once took as sheer insanity.

Now it is 100% true that the left was thoroughly railed in word, graphics and every other form of communication here and elsewhere. Radio guys did it. TV guys did it. Politicians did it.

But now, suddenly, the ‘right’ finds itself adopting the very same mindset of the very same people they thought insane.

And they are PROUD of it.

Well, let them be proud. I also expect them to keep their mouths shut when the man who their votes elected presidentm does not succumb to the ‘HopeandChange’ of a congress unwilling to rein him in. Because if all the ABOers in the country united behind ANY conservative, it’s a mathimatical certainty that person would win.

That they won’t is out of fear they will do so alone and thus lose. And I defy them to cite fear resulting in a positive political outcome.

They sure as hell cannot point to the genesis of their ABO crusade - IE the Left and Obama. Look what their ‘fear’ of rePalin resulted in.