I'm Not Threatened By a Romney Presidency

Nope. You didn't read that wrong.

Make no mistake; I'm not FOR Romney. I actually really dislike the guy. I'll never support him whole-heartedly. It breaks my heart that we seem willing to once again settle for the lesser of two evils, especially after we saw what happened in the last election, where a mere politician with a record slimmer than a greeting card and a sketchy past was blown up to be a modern messiah, only to be used as a rubber-stamp to approve the sort of America-killing legislation, crony capitalism and social programs the Left has been wanting for decades, while hiding behind the accusation of racism against any and all critics.

After three years of Obama, I really expected the fighters of the Right to come out and run for office, just like they did in the House/Senate/Gubernatorial races of 2010. Maybe that was my mistake. Maybe the Tea Party candidates really thought they'd do the most good at the state level, or in Congress, rather than the White House. Well, now that Obama has shown that he's willing to illegally bypass Congress to get what he wants, we know how effective our Tea Party candidates are there.

So, the Allen Wests, Marco Rubios, Sarah Palins, Paul Ryans, etc. of the Right decided to sit this one out, allowing the same old Rockefeller Republican candidates to emerge from the woodwork; most of them sitting on their fat asses and making money for the past several years, and quickly the only ones worth voting for were removed from the field. Most shot themselves in the foot (I maintain that what lost Herman Cain support wasn't that allegations were made against him, but how he reacted to the allegations) and now we're left with five men that nobody--NOBODY--is exactly thrilled to have to vote for.

And, in the current crop of candidates, really only one man has the support to go the distance. By now, if Mitt Romney isn't the nominee, I'll be surprised. It's horrible, but it's true. Our fighters chose not to fight, so now we're running a capitulator; one that I feel truly has no chance to win.

But on that note, assuming that Romney is the nominee, I hope he DOES win, and assuming he's the nominee he has my marginal support. Why? Because he's not Barack Obama.

While Romney is certainly a flip-flopper who is, for the most part, a moderate RINO guilty of some horrible acts of leftism, he is not at all a driven socialist with an agenda to "fundamentally transform" America. At heart, Romney is driven by a passionate love for, and need to protect and defend, Mitt Romney. If he feels that he will be loved more by the people by being conservative and undoing the harm Barack Obama has done, if he genuinely feels like that will earn him two terms, then that's what he'll do. Of course, he will engage in the sort of quid pro quo appeasment of his leftist opponents, he will allow Congress to shift to the Left again, he will probably not do too terribly much to undo Obamacare (considering it's based on the model he created for Massechussets) and he will probably not be liked by most people.

But between a man who's out for himself and wants the adulation of America vs. a man with a clear agenda to turn America into Greece or China, between a man who will secure our borders vs. a man who advocates open borders and bows to our enemies, the choice there is clear, and I'm not threatened by it. I'd rather have a caretaker president who doesn't really improve things than an activist president determinedly making things worse. Romney will attempt to make conservatives happy some of the time. Obama will continue to treat us as if we don't exist, or are a "fringe" movement.

Again, it saddens me that Romney is really the best we can do, and let me re-iterate; I don't think he'll win. I think he's the kind of squishy candidate Obama won't have a hard time destroying. It's already begun, and considering that there's a lot wrong with Mitt Romney, by the time he's the nominee his candidacy will already be down for the count. But if he's the nominee, I hope he does win. At least under him, things may not get any better, but they won't get worse.