It's a choice between Coke and Pepsi. THAT's the choice.
For the love of God, people, LOOK at the man's RECORD. Anyone -- and I mean anyone -- who reviewed Romney's record without knowing his party, would certainly place him in the D column, and to the left even there. He is a liberal Democrat registered in the Republican party. He is Coke to Obama's Pepsi.
It's not Romney or a true conservative. The party apparatus has spoken, and once again a true conservative will not be a viable option - meaning, someone who has a real chance of winning because they are one of the major party candidates (not because of their philosophy).
Not because of their philosophy, but because of what's on the shelf: Coke or Pepsi. Romney isn't just "not a true conservative." Romney is a died-in-the-wool big government statist who has advanced every single major liberal agenda that I've been voting Republican all my life, in every election since 1976, to oppose, for Pete's sake!!! I have LOOKED at Romney's record. Voting for it is voting for a liberal. Period.
It's Romney or Obama.
Exactly.
If you say, "Not Romney" then you're saying, "Yes, Obama."
Wrong. I'm saying one is the same as the other as far as I'm concerned, and I'll let somebody else make that determination. I'll be voting for a plurality, so that at least whichever one gets in will only have a minority of the vote. His lack of popular mandate will at least make him easier for conservatives in Congress to overpower. If Romney gets a mandate, conservatives will have it WORSE because "the numbers" of a mandate support the claim of Americans overwhelmingly embracing his "progressive" brand of "Republican," so sit down and shut up, conservatives.
For all his warts, the question is not: Is Romney perfect? The question is: Is Obama worse?
In order to honestly answer that question, one has to examine Romney "for all his warts." Very few have done it, though some who have are still determined to vote for him out of pure fear of Obama, nothing else, and hold up as the SOLE hope that somehow, that same Congress that couldn't and wouldn't stand up to Obama, would stand up to Romney.
Among the warts they usually miss is Romney's ruthlessness. Romney plays hardball and he'd be playing it with every conservative in Congress.
Should he win with a popular mandate and proceed to park conservatives in the back seat like children instead of "coming around" like desperate, frightened conservatives and Republicans hope he will, ABOers would wish they never heard of Romney. He IS a LIBERAL. Voting for liberals guarantees a bad outcome. Sad, hard, but true.
The difference is that liberal Romney plays hardball. Obama is a weak fraud. Congressional Republicans and conservatives would unite and successfully fight the latter. They'd get slaughtered by the former.
I'm voting for a plurality.