>> Do you think it appropriate to try to coerce people into violating their conscience?
Criticizing is not coercion. Nice try.
Romney is a crap shoot on Life. Obama is guaranteed Pro-Abort. So does your conscience prevent you from gambling too? You don’t think there’s any chance that Romney with both GOP Houses will sign anything positive into law? Are you that convinced he will legislate just like Obama? Is there any chance PP funding would be curtailed with the GOP controlling all 3 Houses? Is it really worth it to not take that chance, and consequently assist the Left by default?
A conscientious decision can look past personal repulsion if the outcome improves the odds on Life.
We need to take all 3 Houses if we hope to improve the situation. Not voting helps to make that improbable. Got conscience?
No, you don’t understand.
Romney, to this day, violates all of my my most important core non-negotiable principles.
He is a judicial supremacist, which means that he is anti-republican, anti-Constitution, and that his default position is in favor of the abortion status quo, which is abortion on demand.
He doesn’t believe what the founders of this free republic believed to be self-evident, or, to use the modern vernacular, as-plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face, that our rights are God-given and therefore unalienable. He thinks abortion should be decided by a vote of the people. In other words, he is, by definition, a pro-choice democrat.
And finally, his last fallback position is the moral equivalent of the Stephen A. Douglas Democrats, that states should decide whether or not they allow the killing of helpless, defenseless little boys and girls.
It prevents me from gambling with the self-evident truths of the republic's founding, the stated purposes of the Constitution, and its explicit, imperative requirements, yes.
But betting on Romney wouldn't be a gamble, it would be a sure thing. We already know what he will do, because his record, and his words right up until the present, tell us that plainly. That is, if we're honestly listening.
What you're failing to grasp is that there is a far better chance of Romney, working with RINOs and Democrats, of negative legislation passing into law. Everything from a VAT tax to tax increases on the rich to climate change legislation to amnesty for illegals could pass if Romney twists enough Republican arms. Republicans would never allow Obama to pass any of that.