Remember my “perhaps” earlier, I never said I would not vote GOP, I just said I will not go quietly or surrender like you will do and are asking others to as well.
Yes that is exactly what you are doing.
I respect my vote more than that. So do the vast majority of freepers I have come to know from our conversations as well as their many posts here. It is that respect for what our founders envisioned, for that sacred trust in “the people” and the value of their vote that makes us anything BUT CINOs.
Disrespecting peoples vote, tossing them around like fodder, stealing them like dime store candy or threatening because they don't come to you automatically, all of those are activities of the left.
Anyways if such dedicated and serious conservatives are the friends I attract from any position I take, I am in glad company.
One last thing, something I guess I need to be straightforward about so that even you will understand since you obviously have yet to “get it”.
Stop with your “vote for Obama” and threatening schtick this far out. There are many who will profess no support for whomever right but may change their minds IF things are allowed to progress naturally. As it is the Conservatives out there are not happy with the GOP or the same ole’ same ole’. Attitudes such as yours are more than likely to make them do the opposite of what you wish. Yes, they are mad enough to toss caution to the wind, try and ride things out hopping the since the GOP and the Democrats are essentially treating the people and their desires the same way, failure will ultimately clear the field.
You say you will support with passion whomever it is you are for. Stick to that and understand others will fight for theirs and against those who do not represent in an appreciable way Conservative ideals and do so for the next couple of years.
Even in the end if they don't vote or vote third party, that is no more a vote for Obama than it is a vote for continued mediocrity and failure on the part of the GOP.
Like I said if you really are being on the up and up, drop the attitude and try earning some support. The path you are on now, the same path the GOP/RNC has been on for years now is the path to FAILURE.
If you don't get that, if you cannot see that then there is not much I can say to help you and I doubt you are capable of getting past your limited self interest anyways.
Which is the final irony, for given your supposed passion and fervor, you have to ask not for whom ejonesie22 will vote for but you have to ask can I afford to lose his vote?
And as it appears from numerous posts on FreeRepublic as well as the few Tea-party events I have attended that is a question you and the GOP are going to have to ask 10s of thousands of times over the next couple of years...
Seems like someone has some work to do, and calling people losers and Obama supporters is not a prestigious start to the effort at hand.
I'm reminded of a scene from Animal House. To set it up for you, the Deltas have been expelled, and Otter has suffered a beating at the hands of the other Greeks on campus. In response to the dire situation, Otter suggests the following:
I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
To which John Blutarsky replies:
And we're just the guys to do it!
Do you see the parallel? You don't want four more years of Obama, but what if Romney is the GOP nominee? Rather than do the right thing and vote for Romney, you instead use your vote to deliver that futile, stupid third party tally.
Yes, you're just the guys to do it.
You have two and a half years to wise up.