Why are so many writing in Ron Paul for President?

I'm going to be two faced and hypocritical to my own ideals just four short years ago, when I used the "right candidate" principle to cast my presidential vote. I was staunch and firm on a man named Chuck Baldwin. Nobody could talk me out of it. I was of course not going to vote for Obama. And there was just simply no way I was having McCain. Period. I was being bullheaded. I think my logic and reasoning were pure. I really do. So I can't criticize Paul voters who really believe their guy is the answer. I still believe that if we always do what we've always done, we'll always get what we've always gotten. I wasn't convinced that the election we were having was as critical as others told me, and I was wrong. The time to work out all our baggage within the party is not during a National Election for the President. We should have been having a dialog as a party the day after we had our asses handed to us by Obama in 2008, so that as we approached the 2012 election, we were left with only minor difficulties, and our candidates could have been of a more like mind. But even then, they'd still be different. This is WHY we have the primaries and caucuses. I learned my lesson in 2008, and though I encourage new parties to form, and I may even become a member of another party, with very little persuasion, at this moment in time, I am a conservative Republican who didn't get the candidate I wanted. Boo hoo. Either did the supporters of Perry, Bachman, Gingrich, etc. We have chances to do all kinds of things in prep for 2016, (if we get on it now), but for the next four years, we are going to be faced with either Barack Obama, and a completion, without restraint of our transformation into a european socialist nation with no regard for free enterprise, the protection of human life, National identity, or the defense of marriage. - Or we will have Mitt Romney, who struggled with a few social issues as a younger man, but came out on the conservative side in the end. He is a free market capitalist who may have some concept of the economy, and once the debates start with Obama, it will also become clear that he has some ideas on foreign policy and immigration which are more conservative than liberal. Do I think he's the perfect candidate? Absolutely not, but he's ours. He is the choice of the Republican party. For all it's warts and problems, Ron Paul has remained a Republican. He is only still running in order to have a voice at the convention for the libertarian WING of the Republican Party. He never seems to jump ship in the end, and start a third party, or join the "libertarian party". I get it. I'm not criticizing. At the convention, after voicing his libertarian concerns, and expressing his anger that the majority of the party still hasn't broken his way, I am praying that he then gives a speech, ON CAMPUS at the convention, where he says we must band together now, and defeat Socialism. He can then have four more years to work INSIDE the party to win our minds and hearts. Well this is getting pretty long. To sum up, I sympathize with those who wish to make a statement. I have been in your shoes. I still am to an extent. I really have concern that after another 4 years of Obama, we won't be able to fix much of anything anymore. We can barely get elected now. But it's important.

If you are a Republican, or a non-affiliated voter, and you are not happy with the Obama administration, I am giving a personal plea to not only vote (don't stay at home), but vote for Romney for President. We need you. Votes for the others are sincerely votes for Obama in this frighteningly tight showdown between two cultures in the U.S.. I don't know what else I can say. I didn't listen to these very same pleas in 2008.

I encourage everyone to carefully study your local candidates. This is where change will ultimately come from. Vote correctly on your councilman. Your state legislature, Your Governor, your Sherrif, Justice of the Peace, School Board President, County Treasurer, and Judges, as well as your Federal Congressman, and Senators. These are the future leaders of the country. If we get the right people in at the grassroots level, conservative change will slowly come. But right now, anyone who is not a Socialist, needs to get out the vote, and vote for Mitt Romney at the top spot. This is difficult for me, but it is what it is. We can't have Obama for another four years, and have any realistic vision of turning around the resulting Eurocratic bureaucracy that we will have become by 2016.

I doubt many will read this whole thing. If you did, thank you. If you direct me to a long post of yours, I'll return the favor. ;-)

God bless you, and God bless the United States of America

You sound pretty fixed in your stance, but I can't find any reason or logic in it. I'm not trying to be insulting. I just don't understand. Are you saying you're actually going to vote FOR Obama, because you're not as happy as you'd like to be with the challenger? I'm really trying to wrap my head around this mindset? I don't know, I just don't get it. You're not the only person I've heard say this. I guess first, I don't understand what it means? Are the people who hold this opinion not voting at all (bad mistake for tons of reasons), Voting for a third party candidate (better than NOT voting, because of all the ballot measures and other offices that need voter attention), or voting for Obama (Sincerely bad idea on every level)? I've been assuming that due to the subject matter of the question that you are a Republican, a Conservative, or both. Am I wrong on that front? If either or both of those things are true, it would be silly to vote against the Republican you're pissed at, knowing that the vote goes to the Democrat who is ruining your country. It doesn't send any deep message to the GOP. Working with your local Tea Party, or your Constitution Party for the future of the conservatiism. Electing grassroots candidates for Mayor, Senator, Congress, that's sending a message. The GOP isn't deaf. They've already heard us. Within two or three cycles, you'll see a better candidate for Prez. In the mean time, there's all the locals you should study and support, and vote for the more conservative option on the ballot for Prez, since you're not going to change the nominee at this time. The more conservative option is Romney. Period. Doesn't mean you have to like him. Doesn't mean he's Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln. He's what we have. And frankly, we don't know. He may well be Ronald Reagan, who went from being a bit of a lefty California actor in favor of abortion and all that stuff to being one the most conservative Presidents of my lifetime. We're giving Romney too hard of a time. He hasn't even debated Obama yet. He's still forming some of his campaign ideas. He's listening to us. He watches the news at night. The messages are sent.

I had to give it one more try. One vote can make a lot of difference. Hey, during the debates, I was all Santorum and Gingrich. I almost spit on the ground when I heard Romney's name, and now I'm virtually campaigning for him. Why? Because I woke up in a cold sweat and decided I love Mitt Romney? Hardly. Because I am THAT concerned about non-voters and apathetic voters handing our country over to Socialists, which I spent 8 years of my life in the military fighting against. And don't even try to say that Romney is an agent of the Socialists. The GOP has some waking up to do, for sure. But they most definitely are NOT the Democrats. Even with Romney as their President. Also, try to think of the cabinet, the administration, and the judge appointments which Romney, (and his conservative advisors), will make vs. what we've already seen from Obama.

Romney will have a pretty conservative congress to deal with, almost certainly. They will keep him in check where he shows liberal tendencies, but frankly, I don't think he has as much to learn as many are claiming. He's a big boy. He's taken his hits, he's learned from them, and I think he'll do surprisingly well. Obama on the other hand, is doing awful things, EVEN with the threat of not being re-elected. Just seriously sit and imagine for a moment what he will do when there is no worry about re-election. Think of the damage he can do in 4 solid years, with no campaigning to worry about, and the machinery already set in place. It's a deeply disturbing thought.

All just food for thought. If you run some of these scenarios and change your mind, great. If not, I understand. You've got to be true to yourself. But I pray that you do care enough about your country to seriously contemplate these things between now and November. God bless you, and God bless America.