I wouldn’t blink either. While I wish the republicans would’ve put forth a fully conservative candidate, the fact of the matter is that Obama must be thrown out in November. It’s a near-daily that there is a new assault on our liberties and stomping on the US constitution by the Obama administration
Like I said...I wish it were a more solid conservative. But I won’t not vote, I won’t vote for Ron Paul or throw my vote away on a write in. I will vote to GET RID of this man and his regime.
To those who want to chide me for posting this, feel free. I won’t be responding as I feel I have said nothing that needs defending.
I see that:
1. Obama is so loathed by Americans, including Democrats, that his approval numbers are downright pathetic, which means that this election, he will not get remotely as many votes as he did the last time; many former Obama voters will either not vote or will vote third party.
2. Romney has an established record of actively advancing and promoting the FIVE major liberal agendas of global warming, government-run health care, the homosexual agenda, activist judges, and abortion, and has governned always like a liberal Democrat. He remains proud of RomneyCare, is all for the global warming agenda of restricting and regulating food and energy production and kow-towing to a global "solution rather than an American one" (his CPAC speech of '08), and the "right" of homosexuals to adopt children, more accurately, the government's right to force adoption agencies to cooperate.
I see that this election, by the grace of God, is such that circumstances greatly favor a very low vote turnout for Obama, which means that a deliberate attempt by conservatives to split the vote at the top of the ticket by voting third party and rejecting liberal statist Romney would have an excellent chance of making it so whichever guy wins regardless of the electoral college count, Obama or Romney, enters office on a plurality of a little more than one third of the popular vote -- opposed by nearly two out of every three voters. THAT would be good for conservatives no matter which amoral statist, Romney or Obama, won.
Two potential disasters still lurk:
1. Democrats crawfish and nominate someone other than Obama before November, a "blank slate" on whom Democrats could project all the new "hope and change" they wanted.
2. Romney winning by a landslide, which would not only silence conservative Republicans and opposition to liberalism for the forseeable future, but strengthen moderate Republicans and ensure the advance of authoritarian amoral statism as consistently promoted by Romney.
My priorities at this point are not ABO, because a plurality win in the 38 - 40% range would make him a mockery, but to prevent Romney from winning in a landslide. I'm not afraid to see what I see -- whereas ABOers are terrified not only of Obama, but of looking eye-to-eye at what Romney truly portends.