I really don't buy the whole "Romney bought the nomination" train of thought. To believe that, you'd have to believe that (a) people who walked into the voting booth and pulled the lever for Romney had absolutely no free will of their own and (b) Romney's people arranged for a large group of real conservatives to run and split the Not Romney vote so that he would sneak in.
Just not buying it.
I am coming around to thought of supporting Romney to defeat Obama, but the moment he is elected (if he is elected) to immediately work for his defeat in 2016 for the GOP nomination.
I held my tongue when W was in the White House, I will do no such thing if Mitt is in the White House.
Here's your alternative:
1. Demonstrated fact: Romney spent the entire primary campaign spending gazillions of megabucks on relentlessly negative and absolutely dishonest campaign advertising against any actual Republican candidate with the NERVE to appear as the Great Conservative Hope in any given primary.
2. The negative advertising carpet-bombed the commercial airwaves to a degree unprecedented in GOP history and concentrated on what amounted to lies by omission, i.e. such nonsense as: as a senator, Rick Santorum obtained major sums of federal money for Planned Parenthood. Let's translate that into ordinary English: As Senate Majority Whip, Rick Santorum had the job of enacting a federal budget (something that has not occurred in more than a thousand days to the imagination of the current Demonrat Senate Majority Whip) and that does not mean that Santorum OR ANY OTHER GOP Senator supported such specific items. Every budget is regrettably a grand compromise. For a fuller explanation, discuss this with any state or federal legislator of your acquaintance. The Mittwit may imagine GOP primary voters to be brain dead but some of us are holding out and will be holding out on him and his corrupt money machine in November.
3. The alternative to Santorum being Senate Whip and subjected to such lying by omission by the Massaachusetts trashbag would be to have left ALL GOP Senate leadership posts in the hands of Mitty Romney's left-wing Demonrat buddies in GOP drag like LAMAR!!!, Corker, Cornyn, Hutchison, Bennett, Lugar, etc. who share to a greater or lesser extent Willard's love for social revolutionary policies like holocaust-level baby-killing, Adam and Steve playing make-believe marriage, not wasting on our nation's defense the money ($$$!!!) that belongs in their grandchildren's tax-insulated trust funds; i.e. the same old, same old, boring barons of corruption who keep the taxpayers' money flowing without obstruction to fellow members of their corrupt club. It was to preserve such absolute corruption that any potential candidate with a track record of busting corruption like Sarah Palin just HAD to be destroyed.
4. What's fair is fair. Some of us will spend the rest of our lives relentlessly opposing and destroying these greedy bastards who are destroying our country and using the GOP as their vehicle. Sarah is a young woman as yet and should be able to inspire others and to play a major role in payback.
5. Romney's lavishly funded advertising campaign of lies (not mere disagreements or differences in perception but outright lies) against his opponents was the functional equivalent of the spoiled SOB muscling his way through the feared (by phonies posing as Republicans everywhere) GOP primary process through the use of mountains of money (obtained upon Lucifer, Romney and his contributors only know what promises to sell out the American people), by sticking his thumbs in his ears, waggling his fingers and shouting non-stop in a loud voice: "I can't hear you!!!!" and, of course, being widely supported by the Lame Stream Media (strictly temporarily until all the conservatives were destroyed for this cycle) as Mr. Inevitable. When the media turn on him (as insufficiently Marxist and not quite sufficiently social revolutionary) in defense of their Messiah in the White House, I vow not to feel the slightest twinge of sympathy for this useless bastard who has kidnapped the GOP with mere money.
6. When history is written, it may well be more obvious that Romney caused (and maybe even funded) multi-candidate conservative chaos in this year's festivities. He certainly paid off such diverse interests as South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and Massachusetts Citizens for Life (this is what Rand called obtaining the sanction of the victim). Either that or the candidates themselves were too impossibly stupid to have attained their prior positions in America's public or private life. I am going with Mittens' corruption of the GOP as a LOT more likely.
7. GOP primary voters certainly have free will but they also have a capacity to be distracted by trivia. Will Lindsay Lohan be sent to jail at last??? Is there any way OJ can be punished even though he was acquitted of Nicole's murder? How about that Caylee Anthony case? Who will win on Dancing with the Stars or on American Idol? Romney has a square jaw and he says he opposes abortion, gay marriage, gun control and all the other things that we oppose. People in Taxachusetts say these are lies and so do some conservative leaders. "Oh, it's all soooooo complicated it makes my head hurt!" Besides, I have to get busy to celebrate Arbor Day! And then, will Bain Capital take over my employer and send my job to Bangladesh so that Mittens can take another photo with his buds with wads of cash sticking out of their carefully tailored suit pockets with s*it eating grins on their faces? Diane Sawyer says Mitty is inevitable and I sure hate Obozo. Time to vote for Romney! Besides, if Romney says the pope personally runs an abortion mill in the back of the papal palace and perpetrates the abortions personally, it must be true or he would not say so, would he?
8. Study up on Occam's Razor. The simple explanation: Romney, to an extent unprecedented in history, used mountains of money to lie his way to the GOP nomination by destroying each and every opponent who came close to contending. If that is even possible to be repeated in the future, then the GOP must be destroyed and actual conservatives must start over again.
9. Step 1: For the good of the nation (in needing an actually conservative party), for the sake of the party, for the sake of each and every cause conservatives hold dear (pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, military interventionism where warranted, the very sovereignty of the United States, the defense of Western Civilization itself, etc.), ROMNEY MUST BE DEFEATED.
10. Step 2: Start over to rebuild with or without the GOP. Seize it if possible. Destroy it if necessary. Understand, as JimRob has observed, that we have ALREADY LOST this year's POTUS election by Romney's nomination, by allowing the conservative movement itself to wither to relative insignificance to a point where the GOP nomination can be bought, where churches would be openly persecuted by BOTH major party candidates, where (whatever lies Mittens may find expedient to tell) BOTH MAJOR candidates will be enthusiastic baby-killers, marriage destroyers, and enemies of this country and its values.
11. Just in case you fall back on the silly notion that Romney is a real practicing capitalist who, by golly, just UNDERSTANDS how to get us out of the Obozo financial disaster, bear in mind that he is nothing more than a business predator, swooping in on other people's ailing businesses, killing them off and and parting out the resultant corpses and equipment and contracts to the Third World at our people's expense. He would be the best American POTUS Bangladesh ever had, and Red China and Chavez's Venezuela and Castro's Cuba, and every other tin pot dictatorship on earth.
You may not care. I do and I intend to do whatever I can about it starting with trying to defeat Romney to preserve ONE major party as a vehicle for American ideals.
I was a Reagan state chair (and at various other times a YAF State Chair contemporary to Seattle's own Kirby Wilbur, and a YR State Chair and a CR State Chair, and even a Libertarian State Party officer until I grew up, among other things) when he challenged Feckless Ford in 1976 for the nomination then. He came within a sliver of nomination. Thank God, the idiot Ford was defeated by Carter paving the way for the only unreservedly American administration of my adult lifetime. I started voting in 1968 and have made the mistake of voting GOP in every POTUS race (when fewer would have sufficed) until this year. That's all over with now unless and until the GOP nominates a POTUS candidate worth voting for. If the GOP-E won't allow that, let their descendants' trust funds suffer accordingly. Hopefully, fatally so that they will have a harder time buying nominations in the future. Since money is their one and only god, it is time to take away their putrid little god. Maybe then they will notice. If not, not.
BTW, you don't have to buy it. Reality will continue to be reality whether you personally buy it or not.
P.S. Check out Willard's track record in Taxachusetts politics and do it objectively to reveal the genuine horrors that lie withing Willard. Also, his track record as a PERSONAL CONTRIBUTOR to Planned Barrenhood. Don't say you were not warned.