Other than that, I'm not far from you on the rest.
Huntsman and Gingrich don't have a prayer. If Romney wins then, one way or the other, you'll be voting for a second term for Obama?
Romney has NO candidate viability in the general election. He’s dead in the water. The media will be merciless pitting Obama as one “subject to racism” vs. Romney, who as a 30 yo attended a church that was still openly racist at that time [denied blacks priesthood holder status].
That being the reality, why would any GOP or Independent voter want to vote for an unviable candidate who can't win? (That's called throwing away your vote)
First of all there's never only a "binary" choice. (There's ALWAYS a third-party vote if the GOP slits its own throat...or aren't you aware that the Whigs are no longer around & a new party called the GOP arose in the mid-1850s?)
We need peripheral vision...elsewise, if we're only beholden to the current campaign, people would vote for a Hitler type in a nanosecond if a worst evil candidate was running vs. him.
Take the biggest "loser" of a GOP candidate...say a pro-abort, pro-national healthcare, pro-homosexual candidate. Guess what? If you vote for such a candidate, you've wasted your vote. He will lose. Voting for a losing candidate -- even by people who think in your terms -- is indeed a wasted vote...which I thought was anathema to FREEPERS like you.
(And so what if Romney can garner up to 10% or so more than a third-party candidate…If you lose a football game, 46-29, why is that so much better than losing a football game 46-16 or 46-19?)
So why would you waste your vote on a candidate you know will lose -- and taint your convictions & conscience in the process? And stab the GOP party in the back at the same time?
As for voting for the “lesser evil,” No. I wouldn't vote for Hitler in the 1930s Germany even if he were running vs. the anti-Christ.
...there's a clear line in the sand. When the wife of a 40-yo marriage no longer sits in the middle portion of the seat of a pick-up truck, who moved?
We're not pushing the exit button; if the GOP decides to do that by electing Romney, they've exited and are threatening the entire party with Whigism.
At that point, should it occur, the GOP needs to clearly understand the true meaning of a "wasted vote." Too many GOPers in that circumstance would be tempted to think voting Third Party is a "wasted vote."
Allow me to be clear: Voting for Romney or a RINO is not only a wasted vote, but it's a vote for implosion of the GOP. It would be like planting extinction yeast in its very midst!
The GOP's already been guilty of tolerating too much moral erosion under the guise of "Big Tentism"; it's on a perilous course of implosion if it thinks its base will tolerate this.
We're not going to stand idly by when the RINOs attempts its GOP coups.
You really haven’t a clue, although you could easily get one if you tried using that great new invention called “posting history.” I had not thrown all of my support behind ANY candidate yet before this mess, but I did like Cain and Perry—and possibly Palin if she ever decides. I’ve said so in public posts. How dare you call me a liar! Ok, not in so many words, but bad enough. I’m starting to think you’re just here to stir up trouble, so maybe I’ll let you stir elsewhere.