The issue is potential and building a conservative party. So far as potential, if GWBush can win with 29 red states, then mathematically it takes being on only 29 state ballots to win. That only stands to reason, but it is a math answer. Reality is that it is a way to build for the future with name recognition for the growing conservative party.
The alternative is voting like a liberal....no, it’s worse than that. It’s like a radical liberal, either an international socialist or a social corporatist (nee Mussolini). Neither is an acceptable choice for a conservative.
In fact, conservatives special pleading each and every idiotic position of Romney, like gay adoption, does not drive him to the right. It allows him to move to the left.
The Romney-bots around here should be thanking their lucky stars for someone like the Constitution Party shouting out about conservatism, because the Romney-bots, even former conservative Romney-bots, think they’re doing him a favor by defending him on each and every stupid statement he makes or has made in the past.
They should be nailing his butt to the wall to keep him to the right, but, no-o-o-o....these geniuses are out there making excuses for him.
Does that hold his feet to the fire as they claim they intend to do? Hell no. It enables him to move left.
Just amazes me, because it makes you all act and look like CINOs. If you don’t start nailing him, then you’re going to end up with Kerry from Massachusetts as both nominee and president, if he happens to win.
The issue is potential and building a conservative party.
If you can do that, you can do it - easier and quicker - within the GOP. If you can't do it there, you can't do it with a third party either.
Your candidate is on his fourth party affiliation. He's been a loser in most of them. It wouldn't surprise if he switched again next year to run for some other office.
Instead, this year, he could have run for president in the GOP primary, if he really wanted a real shot a being a conservative president. He could have been on the ballot, could have been in the debates, built and run a national compaign - instead of lobbying for 200 votes at some third party convention.
And, if he won, he could now be campaigning against Obama instead of campaigning against Obama's opponent.
He could have done something constructive, and not be working now, intentionally or unintentionally, to help keep the current regime in power.