We all have to see what happens next, between January ‘13 and January ‘17, before knowing what’s best for conservatives and conservatism.
***No we don’t have to. Your argument is invalid, an argument from silence. The silence in this case being the future. You argue from what you know, not what you don’t know. And in this case what we do know is that Romney is a lying, gun-grabbing, babykilling statist.
We are in agreement about Mitt Romney and his pro-leftist positions on many issues, up to the present day. Mitt’s unacceptable! But, even Mitt Romney COULD end up changing his ways and shifting to the right, on many issues, especially if Mitt knows that he wouldn’t be POTUS for more than one term, otherwise. I’m NOT saying that Mitt will, definitely, become a true small government conservative POTUS. I’m, just, saying that change is possible. If the next Congress (both, House and Senate), and everything else political and judicial all the way down to the most local levels of government, becomes much more conservative, overall, and much less leftist/RINO/Establishment Republican/Elitist Republican, overall, then this would help boost the long-term future of U.S. conservatism a lot.