Since I live in the benighted Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which will go for Obama no matter what, I have the luxury of expressing my petulance over the Romney nomination by refusing to vote for President.
If I lived in a swing state, I guess I would feel it necessary to vote for Romney. I share the disdain of my fellow Freepers for Romney, but however bad he is, I don’t believe that it his mission in life to destroy the United States. I can’t say the same for Obama.I
What you said.
Yep. I live in Florida. I'll be voting to remove the most destructive, America-hating Marxist that has ever sullied the Oval Office.
I have priorities.
I appreciate that you and every other Romney conservative on Free Republic (and just about everywhere else) are so reluctant. That's good.
You believe absolutely that Obama has made it his personal mission to destroy the U.S. Fine. How is Obama going about the destruction? Here's how:
1. Trying to take over virtually every personal freedom AND the markets that serve them, via nationalized health care. As most people realize, the reach certainly would go far beyond doctor visits and invade every corner of American life. Every transaction, monitored and approved by the government.
2. The same forceful control of all natural resources and AND the markets that serve them, via the ecotyranny of the global warming cap-and-trade hoax. UNDERSTAND that "responsible" liberals' only ultimate solution to this pretend-problem is global, such pretense to allow a very steel-toed boot in the door backed by other nations in the authority to squelch American energy production and market prosperity.
3. Activist liberal judicial picks, who distort and contort laws to increase government authority over every behavior.
4. Supporting and cheerleading for the homosexual agenda, which is not about bestowing rights, but deying them. The agenda increasingly has the government prohibiting Americans from peacefully turning away from all things openly homosexual. The introduction of a third emotional sexual dynamic into children's lives begins at age 12 with Gay Youth Pride. (nothing like confusing kids at a vulnerable age! *rolls eyes*) If you wanted to weaken the enemy's large and powerful military, you would cheer when you saw it increasingly "soldiered" by all-sex youths, young women, young men, young lesbians, young gay lovers. Great dynamics for an efficient fighting force, from the enemy's standpoint. Having such a nursery school faced by your own military manned by a focused all-male warrior force. where "drama" is respected as bullshit that gets you killed -- as an anemy, you gotta love the whole overturning of Don't Ask Don't Tell.
5. Most insidious and evil, abortion on demand funded by American taxpayers in a world where a 15-year-old girls might go to a judge to have her parents' refusal of consent overturned, while in other places, a whole culture of promiscuity, sloth, and abandon is made to thrive. All at the coldhearted sacrifice of millions of souls killed in the womb. It is barbaric and destructive on a thousand different levels.
I'm familiar with Obama. He's evil and destructive. Five of his most powerful objectives, listed above, are how he's doing it. I'm familiar with Mitt Romney's documented record, and know that it is philosophically and fundamentally in full accord with Obama's on the same issues.
Voting for Romney is as nuts as voting for Obama.
If it's O v R, I'm voting because it's my duty to vote. I'm voting third party so that I can do what little I can to make sure that whichever damned statist freedom-killing tyrant (there's a major risk that Romney would turn into a velvet-gloved tyrant, especially with an emasculated Republican Party where conservatives "lost") -- it is my DUTY to vote so that whicher tyrant, Obama or Romney, gets in, has the most miserable vote count IN THE END, regardless of the fact that my state, California, will probably go blue in the Presidential. TOTAL VOTE COUNT MATTERS, and if the winner enters office with the hard numbers being that THE MAJORITY VOTED AGAINST HIM, he will have a harder time of advancing his agenda whether he is Romney or whether he is Obama.
Voting for Romney is like voting to drink salt water when you're parched and adrift at sea.
I see my vote, cast for the sole purpose of creating as slim and weak a plurality possible to put the victor on as weak a political footing as possible, as voting to wait patiently and prepare and pray for the next rainstorm, and tough it out.