It seems to me Diogenes that you're concerned about losing the soul of the Republican Party and the author, as am I, is concerned about losing the soul of America. Far more damage is going to be done to "American's soul" with eight years of Romney and other Democrats and weakened Republican party (which will be devastated by a Romney Presidency) than it will be by a lame-duck President and stronger Republican party (which will see a growing number of conservatives elected).
My political memory goes back at least to Eisenhower and since that time I can recall only one conservative president, Ronald Reagan, and yet despite all those Rinos the Republic has somehow survived.
But of all the Democrats during that time, none, not Jimmy Carter and not Lyndon Johnson, represented a threat to the survival of the country.
If you can credibly assure me that the Republic will survive four more years of Obama, I will rest easy with his reelection but then in logic you must forgive me if I do not behold in terror the prospect of Romney's election.
The question is the survival of the nation, not the survival of a party that has never been pure.
