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I refuse to vote for Mitt Romney

Peter Grimm

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As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?
 
From what I'm hearing from staunch TP conservatives in my area, roughly half feel as you do and the other half will vote for 'anybody but Obama'.

Let me express my heartfelt sympathy to the TP conservatives that no TP candidate that can pass the intense scrutiny of the election cycle has emerged and hope you begin now looking at and thoroughly vetting contenders for 2016.
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?

Single issue voters are interesting. Usually you hear that from Ron Paul supporters, but sometimes others do. The most common issue those others tend to pick as the single issue is abortion, one side of it or the other. They can't vote for someone in favor of killing babies OR can't vote for someone taking away women's control of their own bodies.
I can't vote for anyone that doesn't offer economic and military support for The Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement. I also couldn't vote for anyone who eats pizza with a fork. :cool:
 
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I try to avoid it, but I can be a single-issue voter. If someone's wrong on gun control or the space program, I will vote against them if I have a choice.
 
Which Mitt are you referring to, Peter Grimm ?
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?

Vote Libertarian - Gary Johnson.
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?

Yes. Or so I say. For the first time in my life, I'm seriously considering not voting. But November is a long time away.
 
Single issue voters are interesting. Usually you hear that from Ron Paul supporters, but sometimes others do. The most common issue those others tend to pick as the single issue is abortion, one side of it or the other. They can't vote for someone in favor of killing babies OR can't vote for someone taking away women's control of their own bodies.
I can't vote for anyone that doesn't offer economic and military support for The Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement. I also couldn't vote for anyone who eats pizza with a fork. :cool:

Not cool to trivialize in this way. I'm with Viktyr; if the single-issue is an important one rather than, say, how one eats pizza, I will vote against someone on the wrong side of the issue.
 
I'm of the opinion that you don't throw your vote away simply because you disagree with a presidential candidate over a singular issue. You have to take all the issues into consideration; try to see the big picture if you will. Then vote accordingly.

IMO, if a singular issue keeps you from casting your vote, then odds are your vote wasn't worth casting in the first place.
 
I'm of the opinion that you don't throw your vote away simply because you disagree with a presidential candidate over a singular issue. You have to take all the issues into consideration; try to see the big picture if you will. Then vote accordingly.

IMO, if a singular issue keeps you from casting your vote, then odds are your vote wasn't worth casting in the first place.

Sorry, but my vote is as valuable as anybody else's vote.
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?


No, I do not.


Voting for the lesser of two evils is nothing new to me. I'm actually getting used to it.... might as well, that's what we always end up with.


At this point in time there is NO point in voting 3rd party except as a token protest that will go all but unnoticed.
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?

I'm a liberal Republican, and I'm voting for Ron Paul. He's risen in the Iowa GOP caucus, so he has a definite chance.

In fact, I even think some liberals would vote for him. I made a thread about it here:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/gener...lains-why-establishment-against-ron-paul.html

I'm a single issue voter this election. I'm against corruption. And I'm tired of the lobbying-industrial-congressional complex imprisoning people just so those with money can make more money.
 
I'm a liberal Republican, and I'm voting for Ron Paul. He's risen in the Iowa GOP caucus, so he has a definite chance.

In fact, I even think some liberals would vote for him. I made a thread about it here:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/gener...lains-why-establishment-against-ron-paul.html

I'm a single issue voter this election. I'm against corruption. And I'm tired of the lobbying-industrial-congressional complex imprisoning people just so those with money can make more money.


I am so unhappy with the GOP frontrunners I might vote Ron Paul in the primary just for sheer cuss-headed middle-fingerness.

I don't think he has a prayer though.
 
As a staunch tea party conservative, I take the position that I will vote for any Republican in the field... except for Mitt Romney.

I cannot in my right mind vote for a Massachusetts progressive who practically authored the Obamacare law - I simply won't do it.

I'm not buying the "anybody but Obama" rhetoric Glenn Beck and the right wing media is spouting out.

If it comes to Romeny vs Obama, I will personally sit this election out.


Do other conservatives feel the same way?

So you'd vote for Jon huntsman?
 
No, I do not.


Voting for the lesser of two evils is nothing new to me. I'm actually getting used to it.... might as well, that's what we always end up with.


At this point in time there is NO point in voting 3rd party except as a token protest that will go all but unnoticed.

Here is the problem with that - By voting the lesser of two evils, there is no incentive for the Democratic and Republican parties to change their thieving ways. Sure, the Libertarian party will only get about 5% of the vote, but the GOP can say to itself "If that vote goes to us, we can win". But, until they mend their ways, that 5% stays off the table for them. I, for one, am not going to whore my vote out to a party that stopped representing me more than a decade ago.
 
I am so unhappy with the GOP frontrunners I might vote Ron Paul in the primary just for sheer cuss-headed middle-fingerness.

I don't think he has a prayer though.

Well, on one hand this GOP primary is forcing the nominees to spend so much money that for the general election the candidate who wins won't have nearly enough that Obama will.

On the other hand, Obama has ducked out on most of his campaign promises so much that I think it will lessen the impact of his campaign ads.
 
I'm of the opinion that you don't throw your vote away simply because you disagree with a presidential candidate over a singular issue. You have to take all the issues into consideration; try to see the big picture if you will. Then vote accordingly.

Oh, I look at the big picture. I take all of the issues into consideration. But some things are simply non-negotiable. They will not be compromised and it is not up for discussion-- if you are wrong on those issues, then there aren't enough other issues for you to be absolutely right on to make up for it. If a candidate is wrong on those issues, I will vote for anyone who can beat them, because if the government is wrong on those issues then I have no choice but to vote against the government.
 
I am certain that if Mitt gets the nomination he will be defeated in the worst landslide election in modern history.
 
Here is the problem with that - By voting the lesser of two evils, there is no incentive for the Democratic and Republican parties to change their thieving ways. Sure, the Libertarian party will only get about 5% of the vote, but the GOP can say to itself "If that vote goes to us, we can win". But, until they mend their ways, that 5% stays off the table for them. I, for one, am not going to whore my vote out to a party that stopped representing me more than a decade ago.

A vote for the lesser of two evils in a Presidential election makes sense if it's a close election in your state. For example, in 2008, Minnesota was pretty much all the way for obama so I did not vote for it. I voted for Charles Jay of the Boston Tea (Libertarian) party.

However, if it's a near tie in your state, all decent, freedom loving practical Americans should vote for the obama pol because obama's EXISTING budget policies of PAYING for the debt by trying somewhat to make super-millionaires pay the same tax rate as the poor is better than the GOP pols' typical plans for making super-millionaires pay LESS as a percentage of their income than the poor, with the intent of accumulating debt and forcing future generations of middle class taxpayers to pay more. The GOP has established itself as the party of debt.

Furthermore, the obama unit supports Net Neutrality provisions, which are crucial to avoiding censorship, whereas the GOP opposes all such anti-monopoly, pro-freedom measures in keeping w/the party's totalitarianistic world view.
 
I am certain that if Mitt gets the nomination he will be defeated in the worst landslide election in modern history.

So who out of the GOP primary lineup do you think can win
 
I'm a liberal Republican, and I'm voting for Ron Paul. He's risen in the Iowa GOP caucus, so he has a definite chance.

In fact, I even think some liberals would vote for him. I made a thread about it here:

http://www.debatepolitics.com/gener...lains-why-establishment-against-ron-paul.html

I'm a single issue voter this election. I'm against corruption. And I'm tired of the lobbying-industrial-congressional complex imprisoning people just so those with money can make more money.

Im a moderate republican and I would never vote for Ron Paul....he frightens me
 
So who out of the GOP primary lineup do you think can win

Gingrich and Huntsman have the best chance. But the rest have a good chance, except for Romney.
 
Gingrich and Huntsman have the best chance. But the rest have a good chance, except for Romney.

Just heard this on the local news today - Huntsman, Bachmann and Santorum didn't get enough signatures to even get on the Virginia GOP primary. Don't know about other states yet.
 
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Huntsman, Bachmann and Santorum didn't get enough signatures to even get on the Virginia GOP primary. Don't know about other states yet.

True, but Huntsman, Bachman and Santorum are vying for the same block of votes as Gingrich, Paul and formerly Cain. If...and it is a huge if...Huntsman was nominated he'd have a better chance than Mitt. I'm not saying Huntsman will get nominated or is anything more lasting than a snow ball in hell. I'm just saying he's more suited for beating Obama than the rest of the field.

Mitt's problem is that he's cornered his entire base and it is only 20% ish. After the primary, he won't get anything other than "hold your nose" votes from registered Republicans.
 
Just heard this on the local news today - Huntsman, Bachmann and Santorum didn't get enough signatures to even get on the Virginia GOP primary. Don't know about other states yet.

Neither did Rick Perry.
 
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