With all due respect, I think your line of reasoning is dead false. In 2008 we didn't have the foresight to know the extent to which obama would push the envelope and trample the Constitution. We now have his first term as Exhibit A. I strongly believe an exception should be made in the case of Hussein. I also think it was a mistake for conservatives (or republicans) to not have "groomed" a candidate after the '08 election. We made the same mistake in 2008 which is how we got stuck with McCain.
That's abject crap. YES WE DID. Some of us were paying attention and crying aloud a warning. Some of us READ his "autobiographies" (aka Mein Kampf), his associations with known Communist/Marxist radicals, his WBBM radio interview from 2001.
Don't hand us crap for an argument that we need to vote for Romney because no one had the foresight to know how badly he would trash the Constitution.
The fact was and is again today: not enough give a rat's ass about the Constitution, they want hand-outs and the government to fix the problems.
When enough people make government their god, then government becomes god. And for Romney and the Ruling Class, they want the government to be god as much as Obama's Armies do. They simply want their share of the pie and power.
I made the grave mistake of checking my principles at the door to vote for expedience in 2008 as a check against Obama.
I won't ever make that mistake again. The GOP is dead AFAIC. May it rest in peace next to the Whigs.