[Hoot Gibson]

^Even if what you say about Romney were true - and it isn't - there is a huge difference between Obama and Romney that you are totally ignoring. If Romney is elected, his base of core supporters will include a legion of conservative voters who will vote for him to rid the White House of a man that we (conservatives) know is a socialists. In other words, Romney will not get elected without a good turnout by conservative voters and those voters will be applying pressure to Obama from the right. As we have already seen, Obama is most responsive to the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party - voters to whom Romney would owe no favors.

I am no Romney fan myself but people who say that there is no difference between a hard core socialist like Obama and a candidate who has made a fortune as a capitalist have no idea what they are talking about. Romney is no conservative but he is no socialist either. He pandered to the socialists of Massachusetts, but conservatives and moderates represent a heavy majority of the voters who will support him in November. Romney would either work to reward those voters for supporting him or he would face a primary challenge in 2016.

My hope is that Gingrich withdraws from the race, endorses Santorum, and actively campaigns to elect him. If that happens, then I think that there is still a good chance that Romney will be denied the nomination. If Romney gets the nomination, then very few Republicans or libertarians will line up to vote for Obama.