Yep. Remember the many, many FReepers who declared just as passionately and certainly that they'd never vote for Romney ... were here seven or eight months later declaring that they were going to vote for Romney because ... because ... because ... because ....
... because of blind, pure Obama hysteria.
The most frustrating was the unicorn plea that they were voting "against" Obama, not "for" Romney.
The function of voting "against" is illusion. It's binary, like a light switch, on or off. Your vote is only ever for something. Had Romney won, the buyer's remorse would have been horrific.
Colonel, what are the odds, you think, of Christie or some like-minded left Republican getting the official GOP nod? Putting us here with a Christie type in October of 2016, against a Hillary or worse? I saw someone today proposed Gerry Brown, ol' Moonbeam, as presidential!
Finny, I wish I could be more optimistic, but I think we’re going to have the same civil war here three years from now as we had in 2012. The GOP-E will stop at nothing to get either Christie or Jeb Bush nominated and we’re going to have the same old arguments all over again.
The only way to stop it is to get behind ONE conservative candidate and back that person to the end.
Also, you’re quite right — you don’t vote against anyone. There’s no place on the scorecard for that. It’s only votes “for”.
Ted Cruz had it right during the Obama/Reid shutdown. If you vote for a budget bill that funds Obamacare, you support Obamacare because that’s what you voted for. If you vote for an elitist Republican, that’s what you support because you voted for them. Votes, like words, MEAN THINGS.