[Alas Babylon!]

There is no voting "against." There is only voting FOR.

Simply not true. There's been lots of times we've had to do this. In fact, everytime the primary candidate I've been for loses, I've backed the other person within the party because I might not have 100% agreement with them, but I'll never have EVEN 1% agreement with a democrat. In that case, I'll vote against the democrat.

Voting against democrats for as long as I live, because when I'm dead, then I'll be a democrat voter!

[Dr. Sivana]

In fact, everytime the primary candidate I've been for loses, I've backed the other person within the party because I might not have 100% agreement with them, but I'll never have EVEN 1% agreement with a democrat. In that case, I'll vote against the democrat.

You missed Poshard vs. George Ryan in Illinois, and Silber vs. Weld in MA (both Gov races). Ryan lied about being pro-life, and Republicans wanting to be lied to voted for the pubbie felon over downstate pro-life/pro-gun Dem.

In Massachusetts, the Birchers actually ran a favorable feature on Silber in Review of the News. The pubbies gave us that awful WASP version of Kerry and Romney, William Weld, who worked to undermine conservatism (along with Christine Todd-Whitman) at every stage.

It's rarte, but it does happen. And yes, I voted for Poshard.

[Finny]

Every vote that counts toward preventing a particular politician from advancing -- voting "against" -- necessarily entails voting for another candidate.

It is absolute.

Romney has a solid, documented record -- you can look it up -- of promoting and advancing major blows against conservatism including --
-- state-run health care (he invented the model for the one just passed)
-- the homosexual agenda
-- tax-funded abortion on demand
--activist judges (guys like Roberts or worse are the kinds of judges Romney would appoint)
-- carbon cap-and-trade global warming regulation that would inevitably and ultimately surrender our national sovereignty to a global regulating body

Alas Babylon, you're voting FOR 100% Democrat when you're voting for Romney. He just happens to be registered Republican. You're not voting "against" a damned thing.

[Finny]

Incidentally, Alas, I've been voting faithfully straight Republican ticket since 1976, the first election I ever voted in, and I have voted in every election since.

This will be the first time, in 36 years of voting, that I will refuse a politician registered as a Republican and vote third party, let alone at the top of the ticket. But I will do it because it is strategically the only -- and best -- way I can vote in the interest of my country's freedom and government, and I have a duty to vote. Because no matter how you rationalize it, voting for all that Romney is, is against the best interests of our freedom and government.