Conservatives voting on principle (i.e. NOT voting for Romney)

[Torie]

Mittens is in fact the closest ideological fit for me by a bit on balance, so there is no conflict. But then I really don't consider myself a "conservative."

[TJ in Oregon]

Strangely, Mitt may actually be the closest candidate to me ideologically too. He is too socially liberal/confused for my tastes, I'll give you that. But Goode has a litany of positions I disagree with like standing against free trade and wanting to repeal NAFTA, changing the constitution so that people born in the US won't automatically be citizens, The Fair Tax, the fact that he says he wants to preserve social security but provides no explanation at all of how he would like to do it, etc. Why go rogue if I wouldn't even be voting for a candidate I actually agree with?

[Insula Dei]

Anybody not supporting Obama but voting for Goode/Johnson/... should just try to picture in his head what 4 more years of unrestrained Obama rule is going to look like.

Yeah, with that 60-seat majority in the Senate and a Democratic dominated House he will be free to do whatever he wants.

Oh wait...

I said unrestrained.

That may be the stupidest post ever made on this forum.

I am not commenting on my vote for President this election.

Sell-out

[Wisconsin+17]

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I've never cast a ballot for someone who wasn't prolife.

[TJ in Oregon]

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I've never cast a ballot for someone who wasn't prolife.

Would you have been willing to vote for 1980 Ronald Reagan?

[stegosaurus]

There is nothing at all conservative about Goode's and the CP's plan to replace the income tax with a tariff based revenue system.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

There is nothing at all conservative about Goode's and the CP's plan to replace the income tax with a tariff based revenue system.

This probably explains why Johnson was my best match on http://www.isidewith.com/

[milhouse24]

There's a lot of anti-Northern yankee haters in the South.  Most politicians from the North will never be acceptable to Southern conservatives.  

[Wisconsin+17]

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Over Jimmy Cawtahr? Yes. I know Reagan and Romney is no Reagan.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Hey, can we kick you out of the party and replace you with Goode? 

[Simfan34]

I am no great fan of Mitt Romney, as you all know. But I so deeply resent the left that I could never associate myself with them politically, much less vote for their candidate.

I support Obama's policies, but not his party's ideology, or at least the ideology of some in his party. That is enough to stop me from voting for him.

[stegosaurus]

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Hey, can we kick you out of the party and replace you with Goode? 

There is enough room for both centrists (me) and cheap Pat Buchanan imitators (Goode) in the Republican Party. No one needs to leave.

[Cobbler]

I still haven't decided if I will vote for Johnson or Romney. I like both candidates.

[RI]

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Over Jimmy Cawtahr? Yes. I know Reagan and Romney is no Reagan.

Carter was more pro-life than Reagan, especially in 1980.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

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Hey, can we kick you out of the party and replace you with Goode? 

There is enough room for both centrists (me) and cheap Pat Buchanan imitators (Goode) in the Republican Party. No one needs to leave.

Well said!

I still haven't decided if I will vote for Johnson or Romney. I like both candidates.

Johnson if you ask me, he had a better record as Governor of New Mexico than Romney did as Governor of Massachusetts.

[SPC]

I am technically a registered Republican (purely to leave the door open to potential future guerrilla tactics) and will be casting my first ballot for Gary Johnson two Tuesdays from now.

[Lincoln Republican]

Principles or no principles, in the end, they'll end up voting for Romney regardless.

I could care less what their principles are, as long as they vote for Mitt.

[5280]

If Rick Santorum was in Romney's place, I'd definitely pull the lever for Gary Johnson.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Which is why you're voting for Obama instead of Romney? I'm sorry. You've lost your prolife cred.

[Wisconsin+17]

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FTFY.

Eliminating the income tax would be an incredible boon to America.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

There's still a chance that I will write Ron Paul in. He's more pro-life than Obama and Mitt combined.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

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Over Jimmy Cawtahr? Yes. I know Reagan and Romney is no Reagan.

Carter was more pro-life than Reagan, especially in 1980.

I know he was pro-choice during his early days as Governor of California, but when did he turn pro-life? As I recall, by 1980 he was pro-life enough to demand that his running mate, George Bush, change his earlier pro-choice stands if he wanted to be on the ticket.