The problem with this is that, if it's a given that either Romney or Obama will win, then a vote for someone other than Romney is one less vote Obama needs to beat Romney. In effect, Conservatives who don't vote for Romney help Obama.
I'm not happy about our choice either. If you know of a Conservative candidate who has a chance of beating Obama, I'm interested.
I think someone, somewhere, sometime said something like that.
I'll do what I'm required to do, and leave the results in other hands.
/johnny
No -- conservatives who vote third party hurt both Romney AND Obama and HELP the limited government conservative Republicans who will have to fight whichever one wins the White House.
Frankly, I am -- as my vote will be -- entirely neutral about whether Obama or Romney wins; both are BAD FOR AMERICA. Fear of Obama has made people blind to the very real and powerful danger of Romney, who holds conservatives and limited government principle in contempt. THINK about the consequences if THAT guy wins on a majority.
The GOP Elite, moderate Republicans, and Romney would CROW that "moderate" won a mandate, and that conservative Republicans should sit down and shut up because the only reason the GOP even has the White House is because of moderate Republicans -- and a whole lotta weak Republicans in Congress would do JUST THAT because they wanted to be perceived as Team Players.
Two years into Romney's term, conservative Republicans would be embattled from TWO sides, whereas if Obama is re-elected on a slim plurality, conservative Republicans would have the upper hand, in part because they wouldn't be fighting Romney, and in part because moderate Republicans in the party would be moving hard RIGHT after seeing Romney lose.
Obama is NOT an all-powerful Oz, but he, the MSM, and Chicken Little Republicans have good people in such a panic believing that "the sky is falling" that we are on the brink of sabotaging our ONE source of opposition to statism by electing a full-blown statist (look at his record, for crying out loud!) as the most powerful Republican in the country.
Romney would be brutal on limited government conservatives in the Republican party and by the spring of 2014, ABO people would be wailing: "But we didn't mean to vote for this!" as they watched helplessly as Republicans either supported or declined to oppose Romney's progressive "solutions" to "global warming," health care, and homosexuals demanding that we accept them openly everyhwere from our kids' schools and scouting troops, to our U.S. military.
Again, look at Romney's record. He has advanced ALL the main things most of us have been voting Republican all these years to oppose -- voting for him is NUTS. Plain nuts. The price of Romney is WAY too steep.
Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is making a deal with the devil. A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition.
Better to have the courage to face AND BEAT DOWN a despised Obama made weaker than ever in a second term.
Therefore, LIBERALS, who don't vote for Obama, help Romney.