It is very possible that Romney winning the election will do more damage to the Republican party than Obama winning reelection. Gridlock is probably better than a newly powerful, fundamentally dishonest, decidedly liberal Republican party. Consider the following scenarios.
Scenario A: If RINO Romney wins and is unpopular, as he was as governor and is to an historic degree in this primary, then the Democrats will sweep Congress in 2014. The opposition party always does when a sitting president is unpopular. Then the Democrats will run a new far-left candidate or maybe even Obama again, booting Romney out in 2016. This will be an exact repeat of 2006-2008 when disgruntled Republicans stayed home and let Democrats take power. What follows in 2016 is a hard-left majority government with a wide mandate. Using their new Congressional majority, they wouldn’t hesitate to institute pure socialized medicine, full abortion up to partial-birth coverage, big tax increases, shutdown of American energy production, etc.
Scenario B: If Mittsky Romneyev wins and IS popular, then conservatism in government as we know it is dead. We’ll get 16 years or more of GOP elite “moderate” rule. The only options to vote for president will be left and hard-left. Every issue conservatives care about will be compromised, which will mean liberals get most of what they wanted. Our entire party structure and the conservative media that they’ve proven they control will no longer be defending conservatism, they’ll be defending this sickeningly amoral, unprincipled RINO.
Scenario C: If Bishop Willard loses, the Tea Party will be motivated to vote in yet more Republican conservative Congressmen in 2014 to continue gridlocking Obama. There’s very little Obama has done besides Obamacare that isn’t reversible under a new administration. That’s the benefit of him having no choice but to do everything by executive fiat. If Obamacare is overturned by the Supreme Court this year, then his worst legacy will be wiped out even before the election. We will have proven to the GOP elites that we were right, liberal Republican Presidents are not what the country wants. Then in 2016 we get another chance to nominate a conservative for President, with more people willing to listen to our argument as to what kind of candidate we should run.
There’s a lot to be said for forcing the GOP’s hand-picked liberal Republicans to go down in flames, until the elites and/or their sheeple party line voters finally get the message. If we want conservatism to win the day and Massachusetts Mitt is the nominee, then it might do the most good for conservatism if conservatives make a strategic retreat in this election.
“It is very possible that Romney winning the election will do more damage to the Republican party than Obama winning reelection.”
It won’t matter. If Obama wins again, he will succeed in destroying the country. At that point, it doesn’t matter how strong or weak the Republican party is because there won’t be a country left to run.