I have previously passionately argued against voting for Mitt Romney ,even if Obama won as a result (though I also doubted that Romney could win). I had considered voting for Gary Johnson, or for skipping the Presidential ballot and just voting for Republicans in the House and Senate. I have changed my position and will now vote for Romney in 2012 .
My reasons are as follows: 1. The court betrayed us by upholding Obamacare. The only remaining option for repealing this obscenity is to get Romney into office and a Republican Senate into power .
”But Romney won't repeal it?”
We were able to prevent any Republican defections on Obamacare in 2009 by means of applying massive political pressure,if we do so again,then there is a slim, but reasonable,chance that we will succeed in pressuring the GOP into repealing Obamacare.
This is not some open ended thing where it does not matter if it is repealed in 2012 or in 2016. Once the ”benefits” kick-in, in 2014 then it will become exponentially more difficult to repeal it.
But to do so will mean that we cannot accept the "lesser of two evils" as a standard,where we will vote for any Republican,even if he supports keeping parts of Obamacare.
Imagine what the result would have been in 2009, had we called the Republicans and told them "You must not pass Obamacare,do you hear! But we'll vote for you anyway". We would have lost all leverage .
This is not "practical",it does not "buy us time". It accelerates the decline,since the Democrats will set the standard, and the Republicans will know that we will vote for them irregardless of what they do. You think I'm mistaken? You think that the Republicans are ”good fellows, who just need a philosophy?” But they have a philosophy: it's a combination of mee-toism/second handedness (”what will the pundits say”), pragmatism (” we have to violate free market principles to save the free market”), & altruism (”people are hurting”)
And as to the claim that Republicans won't take the voters for granted, let us look at one of the "well meaning but confused folks" who just need to be given a shot of courage;Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin :
"Most pundits thought I was wrong. Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told.
She "excites the base."Phooey. Every presidential election
year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion
that base voters have somehow become the new swing.voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased.Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.Unfortunately for McCain, the actual swing voters, the independents who do determine the
winner of the election, didn't buy into this fantasy at all.”
To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell - Daily News
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.428766 Or as Mccain snickered: "where will they go".
No,if we are to actually slow down this monstrosity then we must draw certain red lines: 1. Repeal Obamacare,completely
2. Oppose Cap and Trade.
3. Defend the U.S.
4. Oppose censorship. If a candidate does not actually do any of these things, then we must be prepared to vote him out of office. We must also work to have a fallback plan should Republicans betray us. We must look into the Libertarian Party as a possible alternative,or perhaps create a new party to replace the GOP (a "teaparty party" perhaps?) . "But third parties can't succeed!" Google:”the Whigs”.
However neither a third party nor the Libertarian Party can win in 2012. It will take time to build up a alternative.
I therefore would offer this advice (HT to Stephen Bailey) Unless you live in a solidly red or blue state, vote for Romney.
If you live in a solidly red or blue state vote for Romney,Johnson,skip the presidential part of the ballot etc ,use your own judgement. The U.S. has a electoral college system,it DOES NOT matter who gets the most votes. The election is determined by who wins enough electoral votes. If you live in one of the deepest red states, your state will go for Romney whether you vote for Romney,Johnson,Obama, John Galt,or stand on your head or don't vote in the Presidential election at all. The same holds true for solidly blue states. (But make sure that your state IS actually solidly red or blue,check Realclearpolitics )
If you live in anything less than a solidly red or blue state ,vote
for Romney. And even if you live in a solidly red state ,you should attack Obama online ,and speak with any of your friends in swing states,and present the reasons I've given here for why they should vote for Romney . Do not lie,just explain your reasoning .
I plan to address this at greater length in future posts.
My reasons are as follows: 1. The court betrayed us by upholding Obamacare. The only remaining option for repealing this obscenity is to get Romney into office and a Republican Senate into power .
”But Romney won't repeal it?”
We were able to prevent any Republican defections on Obamacare in 2009 by means of applying massive political pressure,if we do so again,then there is a slim, but reasonable,chance that we will succeed in pressuring the GOP into repealing Obamacare.
This is not some open ended thing where it does not matter if it is repealed in 2012 or in 2016. Once the ”benefits” kick-in, in 2014 then it will become exponentially more difficult to repeal it.
But to do so will mean that we cannot accept the "lesser of two evils" as a standard,where we will vote for any Republican,even if he supports keeping parts of Obamacare.
Imagine what the result would have been in 2009, had we called the Republicans and told them "You must not pass Obamacare,do you hear! But we'll vote for you anyway". We would have lost all leverage .
This is not "practical",it does not "buy us time". It accelerates the decline,since the Democrats will set the standard, and the Republicans will know that we will vote for them irregardless of what they do. You think I'm mistaken? You think that the Republicans are ”good fellows, who just need a philosophy?” But they have a philosophy: it's a combination of mee-toism/second handedness (”what will the pundits say”), pragmatism (” we have to violate free market principles to save the free market”), & altruism (”people are hurting”)
And as to the claim that Republicans won't take the voters for granted, let us look at one of the "well meaning but confused folks" who just need to be given a shot of courage;Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin :
"Most pundits thought I was wrong. Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told.
She "excites the base."Phooey. Every presidential election
year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion
that base voters have somehow become the new swing.voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased.Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.Unfortunately for McCain, the actual swing voters, the independents who do determine the
winner of the election, didn't buy into this fantasy at all.”
To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell - Daily News
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.428766 Or as Mccain snickered: "where will they go".
No,if we are to actually slow down this monstrosity then we must draw certain red lines: 1. Repeal Obamacare,completely
2. Oppose Cap and Trade.
3. Defend the U.S.
4. Oppose censorship. If a candidate does not actually do any of these things, then we must be prepared to vote him out of office. We must also work to have a fallback plan should Republicans betray us. We must look into the Libertarian Party as a possible alternative,or perhaps create a new party to replace the GOP (a "teaparty party" perhaps?) . "But third parties can't succeed!" Google:”the Whigs”.
However neither a third party nor the Libertarian Party can win in 2012. It will take time to build up a alternative.
I therefore would offer this advice (HT to Stephen Bailey) Unless you live in a solidly red or blue state, vote for Romney.
If you live in a solidly red or blue state vote for Romney,Johnson,skip the presidential part of the ballot etc ,use your own judgement. The U.S. has a electoral college system,it DOES NOT matter who gets the most votes. The election is determined by who wins enough electoral votes. If you live in one of the deepest red states, your state will go for Romney whether you vote for Romney,Johnson,Obama, John Galt,or stand on your head or don't vote in the Presidential election at all. The same holds true for solidly blue states. (But make sure that your state IS actually solidly red or blue,check Realclearpolitics )
If you live in anything less than a solidly red or blue state ,vote
for Romney. And even if you live in a solidly red state ,you should attack Obama online ,and speak with any of your friends in swing states,and present the reasons I've given here for why they should vote for Romney . Do not lie,just explain your reasoning .
I plan to address this at greater length in future posts.
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