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I disagree with 80% of what you wrote - because you present a recipe that will lead to conservatives loosing at the polls BIG TIME.

I am extremely disappointed that we are STUCK with Romney. But the writing was on the wall many many months ago - if we wanted a conservative to get ahead of Romney, we needed to consolidate our support to ONE candidate - but we never did. Over the initial primaries - it seemed that Romney might get 30%, and 70% were for a field of Newt, Santorum, Paul, etc. - and when spread out - each candidate not named Romney was less than Romney. WE SCREWED UP by having too many conservatives run against each other.

The results are in ...we are stuck with Romney. Any effort to make it NOT ROMNEY will destroy the Republican party and the nation. So we have several options:

Option 1: Make a concerted effort to go after a 3rd party conservative candidate. Keep pushing how Romney is as bad or worse than Obama, and pray for a miracle that has never happened in our nation’s history. Such an effort is doomed to failure - it will destroy the Republican party and the nation. It will also hurt efforts to take back the Senate and increase the number of conservatives in the House.

Option 2: Spend the next few months advertising that there will be an effort for a “floor fight” at the convention - which won’t work since Romney will have enough delegates to lock in the nomination, and almost all the other candidates have come out to support Romney. This is a wonderful thing to do if you support the Democrats. Rather than focusing on why Obama must be replaced and spending the effort to get conservatives elected at all levels, we can spend time trashing Romney - and give the Democrats more ammo to use during the general election.

Option 3 - we need to “suck it up” and work at the local level to get CONSERVATIVES elected to the House and Senate. If the conservatives increase in the House and Senate, we will get conservative bills put forward. If Romney nominates a “moderate” to be confirmed by the Senate (various positions in the Executive Branch or Judicial Nominations) - the conservatives can rally to oppose a bad candidate (like happened when Bush43 put forth the name Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court).

So ....you can decide which option you wish to pursue - and be willing to bear the responsibility for the consequences. Maybe next time around - we can encourage all conservatives that want to run to do something to select the best BEFORE the start of any primaries - with the agreement that all but one will drop out and endorse and support the one selected as the best. [For example - have a number of events throughout the country where each candidate presents him/herself, ideas, goals, etc. Maybe a debate between these candidates, and have a vote by attendees. Maybe do something on-line and have votes taken. In this modern age, with Al Gore’s internet, we certainly could come up with something better than what has happened in the past.]

Me - I will suck it up and support all the conservatives running in my state (the People’s Republic of Washington) - and most are never as conservative as I wish they were...put I understand that if they want to get elected, they have to soften some of the conservative positions that they hold. I will hold my nose and vote for Romney. Maybe he will select a true conservative to be his VP.

BUT - I am willing to give Romney the benefit of the doubt. He might act moderate to liberal to be elected as Governor of a liberal state....but as a businessman - HE KNOWS that this country is on the precipice of failing into a major depression unless good business decisions are made. He is both a politician and a businessman. If he doesn’t do the right thing, he won’t get re-elected, and Democrats will retake everything, and we will have a depression of the likes that will make the Great Depression look trivial. Romney will have to use his business acumen to save the country.

So - each of us has to choose whether we want to risk 4 more years of Obama by not supporting Romney - or suck it up and support Romney (and maybe work to change the process so we don’t keep getting stuck with the 30% candidate because the 70% vote goes to too many conservatives!)