Friend, I can appreciate that you're curious as to how I feel about the above questions, but those questions are non sequitur to the topic at hand, and frankly, the answers are a moot point. The establishment has seen to it that we'll have none of that for at least the next four years.
It's a 'what if' conversation at best, and not worth either of our time to discuss.
If we're to be responsible citizens, we need to confront exactly what sort of president Romney's going to be, what the likely make up of the House and Senate will be (R vs D), and then determine to the best of our ability what sort of power dynamics that will create.
The game going forward will be correctly sizing this up, and finding where we conservatives need to push the hardest to help steer the ship in the right direction.
I’m sorry, I have no idea where you want this “ship” that you refer to, to go. All I hear is “not there.” What’s funny is that is the answer that Tim Geitner gave to Paul Ryan on reform of entitlement: “we don’t have a plan, but we don’t like yours.” He was roundly ridiculed on my side of the debate for that . Have you ever considered that policy positions like yours could be the reason serious people are not listening to you?
So long.