Vote your conscience. I, for one, am not likely to vote for RINOny. Not ruling it out, but I don’t expect it to happen, particularly after he shakes his Etch-a-Sketch some time in September. My opinion is the GOPe needs to be shaken up bigtime... and that isn’t going to happen unless Romney does poorly. I’d like to see Jindal in there in 2016. A true conservative with a brain and results who isn’t afraid to take on the GOPe (he the only one with national name recognition that didn’t endorse Myth). If Bobby gets on the ticket, I’ll give Myth another look, but I don’t see that happening.
Ross Perot (no fan of Republicans, to be sure) ran against George H.W. Bush in 1992, effectively depriving him of a second term, and putting in an occupant of the Oval Office that ran rough-shod all over the US Constitution for his first two years in office, even going so far as to try to pass the first draft of Obamacare in that time period. The upshot was the retaking of both the Senate and the House of Representatives by the Republicans for the first time in DECADES, but by then Billy Jeff was well entrenched. With an assist from Perot again in 1996, Clinton snagged a second term, only to face some serious charges relating to his personal character, and was eventually impeached, but NOT removed from office. One suspects there were some additional and much more serious charges, that were covered up in both the House and Senate committees, but never aired because of really serious breaches of national security, and WOULD have resulted in removal from office and serious penalties, up to and including life imprisonment for who is now the Former Occupant (1993-2001).
The Establishment GOP, as much as anybody, was complicit in that cover-up, because they thought that someday, this kind of precedent could be used against THEIR guy, and more than anything, they never wanted to open that Pandora’s box.
As it turned out, a tactical mistake for the good of America. But a most fortuitous action for the Establishment GOP.