Consider what you wrote.......... think on it. Consider how wrong it is.
There is no conservative candidate and the conservatives all together did not have the votes to beat Romney. There is no conservative with the statue and name recognition and fund raising ability on the scene.
Rush likes to say we are a conservative country but this year the conservatives chose to beat themselves to death while relying on false hopes for the miracle of Sarah that did not materialize.
I think we have a coalition of like-minded people that generally want the same things for the country, although we don't agree on several emotionally charged issues. That's OK, IMHO, as long as we can come together to stop the erosion of what we all agree is the essence of America - the right to be self-defining individuals living in a nation that celebrates the rights of individuals to grow and prosper based on their personal dreams and efforts.
I also think most of those who would vote Republican have similar ethics, and I pretty much think that even those on this board who really dislike Romney could have a good time and find commonality out having beers (or whatever libation) with those on this board who will vote for him. We're in this together, and we need each other. We are not the enemy.
I look at this (the current administration and the democrats in general) like a potentially fatal disease we are trying to eradicate. None of the therapies we have available to us at this time are ideal (e.g. they all have some toxicities and side effects, and thus we pay a price of sorts for using them), but they have the potential of preventing the disease from killing us. I think of Romney this way. He is much, much more of a sophisticated campaigner and politician than McCain has ever been, and he in no way comes across as an amiable but past his prime candidate like Bob Dole. I don't like what he did in Massachusetts with health care, and I don't like many of his positions, but I do not believe that he is a Marxist, but do believe that Obama thinks Marx was brilliant. That is huge distinction, and gives us what I believe is an obvious choice.
That said, I don't ever want to pick fights with the members of my own team, and I believe strongly that most, if not all of us here share much more than what we don't share, and thus we are a team.