I wasn’t aware Jim will not vote for the only viable candidate other than Obama. In truth, it doesn’t really matter for whom he votes because he lives in California and Obama will win by over whelming margin simply because the numbers of connservative/Republican voters is simply inadequate to prevail against him .
That is a sad but true fact.
I understand the dislike of Romney and would prefer another conservative candidate. The primary is over. The candidate that won is Romney. There may be several pretenders and some will pretend to vote for one of them. To count, to be relevant, If you live outside the solid red states your vote will be irrelevant if not for Romney or Obama.
The two party system was developed, evolved if you will to permit the inclusion of small political groups within a larger group with which they have the most in common. The Senatorial runoff in Texas is proof the process works and that conservatives will actually have a voice in Republican party proceedings
Regardless of how bad Romney seems, his power to do the horrible things coloring doomsday imaginations, will be dampened. He must deal with the Tea Party conservatives in the Congress.
Would that precisely this same largesse (however grudgingly extended) was likewise offered to we FReepers in similarly ultra-mega-blue environs.