unkus: A lot of the Romney haters on FR will vote for him. They don’t have the guts to admit it.
SoConPubbie: Boy are you mistaken.
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I don’t buy that a ‘lot’ of principled conservatives will end up voting for Willard when push comes to shove, but some doubtless will.
Similarly, some of the ABO BECAUSE NOTHING COULD EVER BE WORSE crowd will not be able to make their hands push the button for Willard on the day of, because it will be such a ratification of surrender.
Sad that so many good people are going through such turmoil over the Trojan horse, when Willard himself doesn’t even care much about it.
“I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.”
This applies in the Catholic faith, and I’m assuming in
the non-progressive Christian denominations (as I’ve posted before):
The Lesser of Two Evils
“It is a serious problem that this “principle,” now apparently part of our national lexicon of political ethics, is being mouthed by Catholics. If the relevant Wikipedia article is correct, the origin of the principle is found in U.S. foreign policy statecraft of the Cold-War era. Whatever its source, the dictum is anything but Catholic.
This may come as a revelation to political pragmatists, but Catholics may not choose any evil. None — period. There is a principle in Moral Theology — the principle of double effect — which, under certain clearly defined conditions, permits us to perform an act that has both a good and an evil effect, but there is no allowance whatsoever in the Catholic system for directly choosing an evil.”
More here
http://catholicism.org/lesser-of-two-evils.html