“It’s not the choice I preferred, but it is a very clear choice.”
With full respect to your prior service....you have been away from the Corps to long. The Marines I know NEVER QUIT. Accepting the unacceptable is quiting. I won’t call you a surrender monkey...that is too far to go. However, I think you are a “quitter” to go along with a improperly run primary. It isn’t about being a “sore loser.” It is about an election being bought and an “establishment” rigging the outcome. That ought to make any Devil Dog mad and willing to keep fighting.
Remember...Semper Fidelis?
You won’t call him a surrender monkey but you call me one several times? Huh?
Sola Veritas, I seriously doubt that you know any real Marines, or that you understand the deep, blood-soaked meaning of Semper Fidelis. But as to your insulting accusation that I am a "quitter" for supporting Romney now that he has won the GOP nomination... I understand the difference between a skirmish and a war, and between an ally and a real enemy.
Not one American voter was forced by the "establishment" or anyone else to vote for Mitt Romney in the primaries. Free people made their own choices, and Romney earned the most votes. Every GOP candidate who ran against Romney has now endorsed his candidacy against Barack Obama - even Sarah Palin, who chose not to run this year. Are they also "quitters" for supporting the only man who can now unseat Obama? I remember back in the 1970s when a handful of former Japanese soldiers in tattered uniforms wandered out of remote hiding places - thirty years after their leaders ended WWII and moved on with their lives. I guess you must feel like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin and Herman Cain have abandoned you, too.
We who now support Mitt Romney against Barack Obama are not the quitters, Sola Veritas. We are still fully engaged and fighting to defeat the real enemy. If you will not oppose Obama by voting for his opponent in November, what is your actual plan for victory? If you have abandoned the electoral process, what is your strategy?
Our nation is in a desperate fight for its survival, and the onrushing enemy is inside our wire. While most of us are shooting at the enemy, you are shooting harmlessly into the trees because you don't like the leader that a majority of us has chosen. If there are enough people like you - who refuse to fight when the enemy is at our front - we will all be destroyed. If you sit out this election, or waste your vote on a third candidate in a two-man race, you will be the quitter.