Betty, I have no doubt that I will oppose BOTH Obama and Romney in the upcoming election. I have no doubt that I will campaign hard in my precinct here in rural Ohio for Virgil Goode.
I consider Mitt Romney actually to be the more evil choice, because he is the seductive choice that draws people to compromise their beliefs.
But here's a "What-If":
What if Obama is the AntiChrist (or at least an antichrist, and it seems pretty plain to me that he is); and what if God, for His own inscrutable reasons, has decided to stand up Romney as the defender of our ideologically Christian-based national order — then what? (There's irony there....)
Do you prefer to feel self-justified in the purity of your belief, and "vote your principles" rather than defend your nation against the greatest perversion this nation has ever seen (arguably, including human chattel slavery)? Someone who holds your beliefs in utter contempt, who holds Christianity in utter contempt? Who holds human liberty in utter contempt? Who holds the Constitution in utter contempt, and spits on it every day? And this is the guy who's running our nation and all it stands for — right into the ground?
And you will do nothing to remove him from office, nothing to defend our Republic against the evil that he is relentlessly perpetrating on it — because you cannot accept a candidate who wears "temple garments," who thinks differently than you do about religious matters?
Jeepers, I wonder about your sense of proportion....
We are a nation under God: And that nation needs defending!
Sigh. I'm beginning to feel what Cassandra must have felt, who saw what was coming — the Trojan War and the subsequent utter destruction of Troy — and tried to warn people. But of course, nobody listened to her. She had to sit haplessly, helplessly by, in agony, watching all her predictions being relentlessly fulfilled....
This, to me, is a good analogy of what is happening, here and now....
JMHO FWIW
Thanks for writing, dear brother in Christ.