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Sorry, but we did not try that in 2008.

http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=never+vote+for+mccain+freerepublic.com

Had we at least had McCain in office, we would have had a shot at saving the country. Many, many FReepers and conservatives withheld their vote from McCain. Some lesson, huh? Cut off our noses, didn’t we?

Sorry, but McCain, like Mitt Romney, never had a chance, precisely because of his dalliances with the Left. And it wasn't the conservatives that lost the race for the GOP, but the equivocating by McCain on conservative issues and his horrible record. So let's put the false meme that conservatives are to blame to bed, shall we?!

Romney, on the other hand, hasn't just dallied with the Left, his record as Governor of MA, the only record we have to judge him on, IS a LEFT-WING record.

Romney doesn't have a chance in hell of winning against Obama, in fact, the only thing inevitable about Romney is that, with his left-wing, Progressive Liberal record, Romney is the only candidate that guarantees an Obama re-election.

Obama and the Media will use the following record to absolutely destroy Romney by clubbing him over the head figuratively 24/7 if God frowns on us and leaves Romney as our nominee:

1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA
2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA
3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly
4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA
5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.
6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming
7. Supported the Brady Bill
8. Implemented a state level "Assault" Weapons Bill after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire
9. Supported TARP
10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)
11. Supported McCain-Kennedy(Amenesty)
12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions
13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers

I'm with Alexander Hamilton:

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

Had we at least had McCain in office, we would have had a shot at saving the country. Many, many FReepers and conservatives withheld their vote from McCain. Some lesson, huh? Cut off our noses, didn’t we?

A little historical perspective is in order. McCain was a non-starter for conservatives for a number of valid reasons. His campaign was tanking badly in the same way Romney's is. McCain was too liberal. And for this, many genuine conservatives did indeed pledge not to support him. I'd have to check my post history to see if I did as well. But then McCain did something amazing : he picked an energetic and far more conservative running mate. Sarah Palin changed the game especially among FReepers (or haven't you noticed her fan base here). We did, by and large, pull the lever for McCain (well, Palin, really -- but McCain was along for the ride). And guess what? Despite our votes McCain still lost. Why? Because a liberal with a "D" behind his name beats a liberal with an "R" behind his name in every general election. The base that McCain appealed to, that carried him over his conservative opponents, abandoned him for the more liberal candidate available in the general election. Certainly conservative voter turn out for him was depressed; why wouldn't it be -- he's a liberal. But that is only half the equation. A genuine conservative would have faired better in the general election because voter turn out would not have been depressed *and* because the support would not have abandoned the conservative in the general. How many threads on FR called for abandoning McCain after Aug 2008? None? Because in August he added a genuine conservative to the team. Our mistake was not in failing to support McCain -- our mistake was running him in the first place. Once the GOP figures that out, they might stop making the same mistake over and over. Until then ... it'll be McCain's and Romney's and Obama's in the White House -- whichever one is the most liberal at the time. And right now that is Obama (but only by a little).