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I said, "Obama is like a Colt .45 automatic with 3 shots in the magazine. Every single shot from it will shoot out a bullet. There is no chance of an empty shot with a pistol like a Colt .45 auto."

Finny said, "That is where we essentially disagree. You've got it backwards: Obama is the six-shot revolver with three rounds; Romney is the .45 semi-auto..."

We were talking in circles until I clarified that Obama was more dangerous to the USA than Romney is. Finny clarified that 4 years with Romney as president would be more damaging to America than another 4 years of Obama.

If I may ask, do you concur that Romney is more dangerous to America than Obama? That is kind of an important detail for Freepers to understand if you also think Romney is a greater threat to America than Obama is.

Yes, as I have argued in detail on posts in this and other threads, after much thought, I must conclude that Romney is the greater threat. Understand that in more than three decades of voting, I've voted in every election and ALWAYS voted straight Republican ticket. I have never cast my vote for anyone OTHER than a Republican. So you will understand that this is a very difficult truth for me to embrace, but embrace it I must. I realize that this is blasphemy to many -- but here in California, some of us learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Arnold, who replaced nightmare Gray Davis and supposedly saved us from racist socialist Cruz Bustamonte, who -- like Obama -- was considered over-the-top unacceptable.

So after two terms of Schwarzenegger, guess what manner of Democrat followed? "Moonbeam" JERRY BROWN, for pete's sake!!! Even worse that Cruz Bustamonte!!! So "winning" on those terms was one step forward followed by TWO STEPS BACK. And THAT is exactly what would happen after a Romney administration -- the next Democrat would be of a caliber we can't even imagine right now, and would make Obama look good by comparison.

Learning lessons is not enough. You then have to APPLY WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED. If you vote for a statist, no matter how you justify voting for him, you're going to make statism more powerful.