[nkassis]

Well, I believe that if the republicans loose again, they will have to readjust their positions anyway. But as you said about Romney, this is the primaries and they are try to find the center of the constituents who will vote in those primaries. So judging them right now is not a very good barometer.

[bencpeters]

I would like to think that, but everyone said that there would be a moderating readjustment on the part of the Republicans after 2008 too...

Understand that I'm making this a bit as a devil's advocate argument - I will still almost certainly be voting for Obama in 2012 (the only republican I could even consider voting for would be Huntsman, based solely on their acceptance of science). But I was responding to the question of how it could be at all productive to vote against the "lesser of two evils" in such a choice. I think there is a valid devil's advocate argument that in the face of such unmitigated obstructionism, the government as a whole might be more productive with a moderate republican in office than a democrat acting like a moderate republican (like we have now). I'm NOT saying that I approve of that situation, or that it's a good situation, I just think that it's one way to look at the situation we're in. Not sure why that view got down-voted...