“A Perry nomination means the Republicans locse that block.”
Huh? A whole bunch of conservatives would rather have a 2nd term of Obama than a guy who supported Al Gore a few decades ago, then recanted? That’s really your contention?
Perry supported Gore in the eighties, when he was a Democrat and much younger. Reagan was once a Democrat, also.
Besides, Perry is not the only other candidate running for the nomination.
Both Newt and Santorum have the brains and the ability to push Romney further right. Bachman is in there to, but I just don’t have the confidence in her that I once had.
Unfortunately, Romney is not a conservative at all. Either he moves right or he moves out.
Your delusional fantasy that you or anyone else can convince people who have watched Perry for ten years that he is not still a liberal falls flat.
Unlike your strawman construction, we realize that if the liberals control both major parties that writes conservatives out of the picture.
Perry is no more a conservative than Mitt Romney.
Obama is producing a Backlash in favor of conservatism. 2010 saw a backlash against the liberal wing odf the republican party. If the Rockefeller wing manages to get one of their little globalists into the nominee seat in 2012 but can't deliver the election then they will be finished in the party power structure for a generation. Absolutely the benefits of not compromising are greater than any benefit from slowing the slide into socialism...but still continuing the slide and having the Republican party share the blame.
So absolutely we will not vote for Romney or Perry.