Why I Won't Vote for Mitt Romney If He is the GOP Nominee

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[libertarian neocon]

“Let’s see: I held my nose voting for Nixon, Ford, Bush I, Bob Dole, Bush II, John McCain, and probably Romney if he’s the nominee (hopefully not). Becoming weary and maybe if conservatives can take the Senate and strengthen the House majority, they can keep Mitt in line.”

Unfortunately I dont think that will happen. Almost no matter what he does he will have some Republicans supporting it because he is the President, and then if its liberal enough he will also get Democrats to come on board. That is how we got Medicare Part D after all.

[The Citizen Soldier]

1. Newt
2. Santorum
3. Perry
4. Bachmann
5. Huntsman
6. Paul

Your ranking looks about right to me. I like any list without Romney included. I repeat myself, but I will NEVER vote for Mitt Romney. I wouldn't care if he selected Lindsay Graham or Olympia Snowe as his running mate, I still wouldn't vote for him.

[fantom]

I hope this nit wit gets paid by the word. Who cares what this blowhard types , much less he he votes for .

[libertarian neocon]

“And if it should boil down to him and BO, you’d prefer four more years of the Boy King?

Just clarifying.”

I wouldnt vote for Obama either obviously. I actually think that a Romney victory would do more to destroy small government conservatives than another 4 years of Obama. So if you look at what is best for the next 20 years? The answer is not so easy.

[hellbender]

I don't like Romney, but he's a natural born American, not a Third World Marxist impostor who is using his office to destroy America and Western civilization. The country will not survive 4 more years of Commie rule. Barring the miraculous emergence of a third party candidate actually capable of winning, I will vote for the Republican nominee.

[taxcontrol]

There is much of a difference between the two????

[willk]

So who are you going to vote for? Let me know and I will be sure and not vote for them. Why not. Just as stupid. Hey everyone! Just don’t vote if your candidate doesn’t become the nominee. Take your ball and go home.

[libertarian neocon]

“Blah Blah Blah I don’t know this writer and I don’t care to read his reasoning as to why he won’t vote for Romney if he is the nominee. My answer to that is then get ready for four more years of Barry. If that’s what you want I think you are an idiot. This is not a personal attack it is just an opinion. I will never understand some who will just take his ball and go home because he didn’t get what he wants. Romney would not be my 1st or second or even third choice but I prefer him to a Socialist who wants to ignore the Constitution and change The United States as we knew it.”

If we continue to have Obama-Romney choices with it flipping every 4 years, we will have a Western European style government pretty quickly.

[truthkeeper]

You actually believe that Romney is 100% equal to the Boy King?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is so far from over.

Pole-positions are changing daily, if not hourly.

It's not time to despair yet.

[stormhill]

Seems like we got us ourselves a nice circular firing squad developing here; this one will never vote for this one, that one will never vote for that one.
Why would Obama even bother to mount a campaign? No, zero, just watch us self destruct and pick up the pieces. Do conservatives even understand what's at stake? We're victims of the normalcy bias who can't believe we'll actually, really lose the country.

[truthkeeper]

I suspect there are many on this forum who will crawl over broken glass to vote for the non-Obama, whoever it is. They’re just not saying so...yet.

[COgamer]

Four of our potential nominees (Gingrich, Romney, Huntsman, Paul) I would have a very, very difficult time voting for in the general. I’m hoping Perry gains some traction, as I really do believe a president requires executive experience and he seems an honorable man (I have to take him at his word that money played no role in the HPV fiasco).

But I think, ultimately, weighed against four more years of an Obama unrestrained by the need to run for re-election, I would have to re-evaluate my “No more voting for candidates I don’t approve of” pledge.

I would have to weigh potential destruction of the long-term conservative platform vs the transient benefit gained from having a Republican I despise in power, or if that candidate might do more harm than good or just preserve the status quo. At some point we really do need to put our foot down and say “Enough!”

[hosepipe]

America has NOW the Congress and President they(we) deserve..

and will have the Congress and President they(we) deserve in 2012 as well..

IF NOT.. they(we) will change it..

[muir_redwoods]

I know, I have voted in ten presidential elections and never yet voted for a perfect candidate. Reagan was the best but he had his faults too. Romney’s certainly no Reagan but he’s clearly no Obama either. My choice isn’t pleasant but it certainly isn’t hard either. Romney by a mile, or should I say a kilometer?

[longtermmemmory]

I wonder how much of this anti-romney (or whoever) is more about reducing the republican turnout for the down ticket candidates.

lower turnout or invalidated ballots keep reid in his job.

[libertarian neocon]

“It’s not time to despair yet.”

Very true. I think if the conservatives can coalesce around a candidate or two we can defeat Romney as he still cant get over a quarter of GOP to support him.

I posted this because I am completely disgusted with how Romney and his allies are acting in the primary race. He just doesn’t deserve my vote.

[stormhill]

I hope so; Heaven help me, I hope so.

[truthkeeper]

You are spot on...I agree.

[ragamuffin]

I am continually surprised conservatives are so wrapped up with the White House election, they seem to forget/ignore the Senate race. Personally, I would rather see the illegal alien return to office than these incessant liberal Republicans we are forced to “vote” on. Take the Senate with conservative candidates, increase our majority in the House - then spend the next four years, if necessary, impeaching Barry and his Federally employed co-conspirators. This is also defined as exercising leadership - not reacting to what we are spoon fed by the existing Washington D.C. Power structure - or wasting uncountable time wrangling among ourselfs which of the useless Republican candidates will sc%#@ America the least.