Of course, you're assuming -- at least in the context of our discussion re: Romney -- that there's a solid mass of GOP & Independent voters who would...
...both forever say bye-bye to a TRUE conservative GOP & would personally as voters sear their conscience...
...by voting for someone who's...
...pushed his own mini-socialism (RomneyCare)...
...been in favor about all their life (with just a few statements stating otherwise -- and ZERO actions) of dismembering the pre-born...
...developed a track record tantamount to that of a serial liar...
...racist-by-association background is quite obvious...
...gullibility to deception is so extreme that he thinks he's a literal "god-in-embryo" on his way to governing his own world as a rival to other gods...
...liberal track record on a whole host of other issues is problematic to the core--to the degree that he has no core!!!
Hey, if we wanted to vote for such a limb-tearing, skin-discriminating liberal divinity, we'd join the Democrats! Why wear the camouflage costume and let them proselytize us all into RINO Dem-lite voters?
Bottom-line: No matter how much you may pretend otherwise, your "dead dog" and Romney both are NOT viable candidates!
Either one would get slaughtered in November.
So what if Romney garnered say -- 29% of the vote? (vs. say a third-party candidate who'd get less). Either way, they both lose! Romney's a loser...He's 1-17 in non-caucus races outside of his home turf! For every caucus he's won, he's lost more than three!
Romney has no viability! He has no traction. He's DOA.
All the possible 29% who might vote for him will get in exchange for that vote is...
...the knowledge they wasted their vote on a known loser...
...thereby forever sending a message to the RINO GOP establishment that they'll forever cave & compromise because they've been told, "they have no place to go"...
...they seared their conscience by voting for a liberal RINO pro-abortionist racist "god" -- a vote they'll need to answer to God for...
...and most directly contributed to the potential permanent unhinging and extinction of the GOP!
Nice going, RINOs, RINO voters & potential RINO voters!
See my tagline. (Under my tagline's scenario, I could see some FREEPERs becoming justifiers and apologists for Hitler if they thought it'd stave off THE anti-Christ from becoming leader of the Free World! Sorry, I don't need to add to the political corruption by converting soul as part & parcel of that corruption!)
And honor, high regard, & much appreciation is in order for this...but you know, we can't keep living in the previously established "order" of opposition.
For one thing, let's be up front about this & acknowledge that some (who knows what %) of our culture's opposers of socialism & communism were themselves racists -- and many more didn't necessarily practice open racism but left its practice "status quo" ... often turning their heads to look the other way as if it wasn't there.
Beyond that, the cults proliferated and/or greatly expanded in the 1960s. Abortion became legalized in '73...
IOW, simply put: Many opposers of socialism & communism haven't always learned how to multi-task & fight many different battles on multiple turfs.
What that means for our culture is that we haven't had much time -- or built-up enough of a generational family legacy like what you're describing in your family -- to expand our multi-front opposition. (For example, the pro-life movement is really less than 40 years old in this country!)
What I've noticed about those who tend to cite socialism/communism is they're even more "single-issue" than what others accuse pro-lifers of being!
Many of them (not all) are either culturally ADD (ADHD) or seem to have trouble grasping...
...there are no basic rights to protect if the pre-born can't even emerge from the womb...
...if we can't stop the overwhelming wholesale mass slaughter, what makes you think the rest of the culture is going to remain untouched? The prophet Hosea said that violence begets violence.
Also, this battle in the womb is simply an exploitation extension of what we've done in our nation's past to blacks & Native Americans...
...and...the negative consequences from the cults can be just as bad eternally (hell is forever) as our socio-political environment's potential overall impact.
We're dealing with multiple wars, fronts, trenches. May I suggest the single-issue anti-socialists learn the basic lesson provided by our exemplar Silent Generation...thereby learning how to multi-task in taking on multiple wars, fronts & trenches?