I voted for Dole in 1996, for Dubya both times, and for McCain in 2008. So cool it with the assumptions as to "you guys" (who won't vote for Mittler).
To get that "trifecta," you need more than GOP majorities in each house of Congress especially with corrupt sell-out artists like Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy running the House and the likes of McConnell running the Senate. If it is toting a portable mattress, a portable red light and a sack of quarters, it is NOT Mother Teresa.
And again, this has NOTHING to do with Mittler's religion. I have risen to your defense on keeping his religion out of it. It has EVERYTHING to do with his sick and pathetic track record in public life and his decades of self-serving lies and "etch-a-sketch" behavior. Did Napoleon or Hitler EVER conquer Russia? The Russians scorched their own earth rather than be conquered. Obozo like Mittler, is worthless and extreme but each lacks the intestinal fortitude to scorch the earth.
Stalin was utterly despicable but even he had the sense to break out icons of the Blessed Virgin to stir believers to defend "Mother Russia." So, Mittler has the sense to lie to conservatives. Stalin was still Stalin. Mittler is still Mittler.
I am applying the "purity tests" not to "my conservative friends on FR" but to Mittler who presumes via the expenditure of renewable mountains of corrupt Wall Street money to have some sort of right to my vote and to run the GOP according to the tastes of the Junior League and the Polo Club.
Whatever "voice" I have after this tragic election (regardless of the identity of the "winner") will be no fault of Mittler or Obozo. I don't doubt that you are conservative as some others have. I read your story of how you became a conservative and I find it quite credible.
This year's election will likely have one of two outcomes. If Obozo is sworn to a second term, just about everyone here will be united against him, although those most insistently principled will be blamed for a while by those who voted for Mittler. If Mittler is sworn in, I will still be as opposed to him as ever and those FReepers who ARE conservative, if they have integrity and intelligence as I do not doubt that they do, will be joining against Mittler one by one until they, joined with his opponents, become an irresistible force in the GOP and in the nation. We need to unite behind ONE genuinely conservative GOP candidate next time (2016) whether we are taking the nomination from Mittler or choosing on a blank slate afforded by Mittler's 2012 defeat. Living as I do just south of Ryan's Congressional District, I would suggest that he will have to make an awfully good argument to overcome willingly accepting the VPOTUS nomination under Mittler.
Peter, Paul and Mary were no conservatives but many of their songs, while meant to be leftist anthems, may be viewed from our point of view even if they never intended that. I think they were being cunning in expanding their fan base by being ambiguous in their lyrics. "Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway. Don't block up the hall..." had its original meaning in the 1950s-1960s civil rights era and quite another as Ronaldus Maximus was inaugurated. My favorite is an obscure little song of theirs, not easy to find, called "Sweet Survivor." It is a song nostalgically celebrating lives of radical political commitment (when issues MATTERED) without specifying the movements being celebrated and prodding the aging radicals (ours or theirs?) to recruit and inspire a new and fresh generation of young people to do what they have done. The punchline of the song is, as almost always, by Mary Travers singing: "For all the things that matter, carry on!"
Your adopted goals are worthy though your chosen vehicle is badly flawed. If Obozo is re-elected, you will be tempted to blame those too principled to vote for him. It will take longer for Romney voters to REALLY come around. We will see better times than this year's tragedy. I trust that we will find ourselves allied. May you be blessed! For all the things that matter, carry on!