I’ll vote Romney no matter what. Obama MUST lose.
I also will vote for the most conservative rep. in my district and continue the pressure on Romney in 2014 by getting rid of more GOP-e candidates.
Romney will bend to pressure. Then, in 2016, we will crush him.
Who's "we"?
Seriously ...
What entities do you expect to exist or come into existence, over the next four years, that will have the power to defeat a sitting Republican president?
Which of these entities will be conservative?
I can see another scenario. A Romney win will entrench the GOP-E socialists in the party. A President Romney would form a coalition between Congressional RINOs and Dems and hang the Tea Party out to dry. And he will use the power of his office to get more GOP-E candidates in 2014 and fight the rise of the Tea Party tooth and nail - and will be hard to dislodge in 2016, leading to yet another electoral disaster in 2018 and 2020 like we saw in the end years of the Bush Admin, due largely to the inherent RINO problems infesting that administration.
Every conservative, IMO, needs to make a hard assessment of whether a Romney win in 2012 would be a Pyrrhic victory in the ongoing fight against entrenched socialism in Washington. I can see both arguments. What I can't stand is the simplistic calls of party unity by too many on this site that ignores the basic fact that the GOP-E has openly knifed good conservatives in the back for too long - examples being Palin in 2008 and many Tea Party candidates in 2010. This fight is much bigger than just this election, and IMO President Romney would be a long detour in that fight.
I won't yell at anyone who says they are voting for Romney because he's not as bad as Obama. But I will tell anyone demanding me to follow their lead to KMA. Conservatives are not GOP lemmings any more. The GOP-E has to make the case for Romney and so far they have done the opposite.
I agree. All independents, moderates, and conservatives should get behind Romney and beat Obama. Get conservative majorities in congress. Then the real work starts. Hold his feet to the fire, deal with the fallout as best we can, then work toward 2016.
Get real, If Romney wins, he gets the 2016 nomination.
two choices, vote Romney and no chance for a conservative until 2020, and that’s only if Romney has not destroyed the GOP brand by then like Bush did.
Or vote Obama and straight conservative downticket, and get a chance for a real conservative in 2016.
I know what I’m doing.
Also Jim, this truce is BS. You’re caving to the Romney clan just like all the rest of them. Name and fight the enemy whether they are in your house or not.
Yes, agreed. Romney has too much chameleon in him, but that may work to our advantage. There's more of us (R's) than them (D's). Jim R would disagree, but Romney's performance in Massachusetts may be misleading, given the liberal environment in which he was forced to swim.
Since Rick and Newt's concessions, I've sensed a boldness in Romney. No doubt he's ready to pounce on our problems and will act decisively. I expect a freeze on hiring on day one, for example. Shrink the gubmint by attrition if not by wholesale dept. closings/consolidations. After all, that is his wheelhouse. Economy is his strength. He seems committed to reducing taxes, opening up oil and gas which will ignite the pent up economy. It will roar.
Socially, I have a hard time believing Romney -- a squeaky clean Mormon must I remind you--will move left, while the majority of the country is center right and moving right. In short, I hope and believe he'll be comfortable in a conservative environment, rather than stuck in a liberal cesspool like Massachusetts. He's already indicated he's willing to take on Obama, much more so than McCain ever thought of doing.
The real tugging will occur within the R's. If we can't tug him to the right as far as we like, we'll grow the T-Party even more until we can't be denied. Repeat; Romney will bend to pressure.
“I’ll vote Romney no matter what. Obama MUST lose.
I also will vote for the most conservative rep. in my district and continue the pressure on Romney in 2014 by getting rid of more GOP-e candidates”
This. I don’t like Romney but I have no doubt he is a FAR better choice than Obama. Get Obama out and then work on saddling Romney with a conservative Congress.
The truce is a good policy but it doesn’t go far enough.
I fully agree and could not have said the necessaries better.
I understand 'the lesser of two evils' inclination. Some of you can do that. I can't.
To me, the Presidential Race comes down to the relative light reflectivity of your jailer / executioner.
I understand 'the lesser of two evils' inclination. Some of you can do that. I can't.
To me, the Presidential Race comes down to the relative light reflectivity of your jailer / executioner.
RomneyCare is too much for me to stomach, ever.
It’s not just Obama we’ll be voting against. It’s everyone in the Obama administration, including Holder, Geitner, Clinton and all the czars and every appointed judge to come.
Those two thoughts are delusional.
I will take a picture of Obama with me in the voting booth. That might enable me to pull the lever for Romney, my last choice among repubs.
Ther eis NO evidence to suggest that he'll bend to our pressure.
There is NO evidence to suggest that he'll bend to our pressure.
Romney=Obama.