If we compare the track record of the post-World War II Democrats (Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama) with the post-World War II Republicans (Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II), the Democrat grade would be F+ only because Congressional conservatives placed some domestic spending restraints on Truman and Clinton, and the Republicans a C-. (Excluding Reagan, it would be a D-.)
So why bother and not stay home, write-in Herman Cain, or vote for the Libertarian or Constitution candidate? One word: Obama. He is a "red diaper" baby with plenty of ties to Communists, their Muslim allies, and the Chicago Outfit. (BTW, I don't think Breitbart's death was the result of natural causes, nor the suspicious package sent to Limbaugh's Florida home. These tactics smell of the descendants of Al Capone.)
It may be said that voting for someone who will head toward the precipice at 30 mph is little different than one who will drive at 60 mph. However, the slower driver will buy more time. Time can be our ally because events beyond the control of the ruling elites can change the game. Romney or Santorum will at least slow down economic collapse by gutting Obamacare and being more pro-energy than the current regime. Under current circumstances, this is the best we can do.
I support Santorum. And if Gingrich was to resurge next week ahead of Santorum, I'd vote for him.
Otherwise, allow me to be succinct in the first part of my response to this comment: A country that places a rival idol -- a literal flesh-and-blood person who actually believes he is already a 'god in embryo' & is growing up to full-grown godhood -- as the so-called "conservative" alternative to a candidate billed as a "Messiah" of sorts...DESERVES economic collapse...at least from God's perspective...
I might not want to hear that if I'm looking @ things from my own realites -- or especially that of my friends & family -- but that's the real long & short of it.
So why bother and not stay home, write-in Herman Cain, or vote for the Libertarian or Constitution candidate? One word: Obama. He is a "red diaper" baby with plenty of ties to Communists, their Muslim allies, and the Chicago Outfit.
If we're talking about Romney as the so-called "alternative" to Obama, you make some REALLY BAD assumptions here:
#1 That you can get enough pro-lifers to militate vs. their own conscience & vote for a pro-abort...just in Dec 07 Romney told Katie Couric that it's "OK" for PARENTS to give away their (embryonic) offspring to "research"...Hey, Mitt why stop @ embryonic stage?
#2 That you can get enough Christians to actually vote for a cultist who thinks he's a "god."
#3 That you can get enough anti-socialists for a man who introduced RomneyCare.
#4 That you can get enough social-issues conservatives who are willing to submerge their values & convictions.
#5 That you can get enough Independents & Dems & GoPs to vote for a guy who paid 10% of his income for the first 13 years of his life into an openly racist org...and who still believes in "scriptural" documents that still spouts racism...
#6 That you can get enough Indies/Dems/GoPs to vote for a guy tantamount to a Scientologist.
Accumulating all these categories (& a lot more, BTW...such as the class warfare the MSM will use vs. Romney as well as other aspects of his culticness...baptizing dead Jews, for example) = an answer to those assumptions that is something Romney CANNOT overcome.
That means people would not only be throwing away their votes to vote for Romney, but would have to answer to God, Himself as to why they were supporting a pro-abortion, idol while simultaneously sending a message to the GOP establishment...hey, give us "anybody" & we'll vote for him.
Seriously, is there an actual POTUS candidate with an (R) next to his name that you or other GoP voters wouldn't vote for in any general election?