This morning my Republican husband says:

[Playinghardball]

I can tell you one thing, I won't be voting for Romney. He's a liar"

Yippee!

We're in Colorado, a swing state. And, he had been planning on voting for Mitt, because he thought Mitt could work across the isle since he probably wasn't conservative on social issues.

But after all this... Mitts a definite no go.

His vote won't go to Obama. It'll probably go libertarian. But, it's now a decisive non-Mitt vote from a Repub.

Yeah!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110814/-This-morning-my-Republican-husband-says

[RKP5637]

1. i'd say at least relative to LGBT he's pretty damn conservative IMO. n/t

[progressoid]

2. During the primaries, I remember hearing Repubs saying "anyone but Mitt".

Now they are stuck with him. They will have to decide of they want to hold their noses and vote for him, or do at the above Repub will do.

[samsingh]

3. that's good news on the repug front

however, romance and seduce him to vote Democratic

[nichomachus]

4. Not conservative on social issues?

He's an operative of the Mormon cult, which spent millions of dollars to take away my civil rights in CA.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

5. Don't give up!

I'll send you my mom's recipe for fried chicken. One taste of it, and he'll swear that you can do no wrong.

[abelenkpe]

14. Oooo, can I get that too?

Mine isn't a republican but I'd love to convince him of other things

[mahina]

6. That is the one-word message that needs to be stamped on Mitt

like white on...rice

[vlyons]

7. tell your husband that Obama is really a centrist

Obama in his heart is a very slightly left-of-center centrist. Not a wild-haired socialist pinko that the GOP keeps trying to depict him. Tell your hubby to keep an open mind and take a 2nd and 3rd look at Obama. He'll have several months to consider his vote. And of course, we still have the debates to go.

[Duval]

20. YES! n/t

[Patiod]

27. Welcome to DU, vlyons

And you're correct. Obama is a centrist.

I try to explain to my conservative friends that the Left in this country certainly doesn't think Obama is particularly liberal.

It's why a lot of the more progressive among us are frustrated with him.

(on edit: I should add we support him, we are donating, pounding the pavements and working the phones for him, and we have his back. But we wish he were able to be more progressive, and we wish he had been able to get through a better health care plan instead of ending up using the Republicans' original health care plan)

[Panasonic]

8. Tell him to vote for Gary Johnson

better than not voting at all.

Or Dr. Jill Stein.

Even the Greens need a little help meeting their 5% goal.

[JNelson6563]

16. Ah, the Greens already get enough Rethug help.

[Panasonic]

17. And how are the Republicans helping the Greens this year?

(Hint: they're not).

I'm not a Green, but some of my friends are registered Greens. They didn't like Nader's ego runs, and they are trying to rebuild the party from the ground up again after Nader ruined the rep.

[JNelson6563]

23. None to my knowledge, they are of no use.

But they've done their share and will do so again.

Julie

[jimlup]

9. Count on Mitt to move to the "center" after the convention...

He'll try to ech-a-sketch away his hard core stands that he took to appease the ultra-right. You'll need to make sure that your husband is well inoculated against voting for Mitt. I would recommend exposing him to lots of Mitt. The more the better. The guy doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

[thesquanderer]

10. The only "isles" Romney can work across are Bermuda and Cayman (n/t)

[tomm2thumbs]

11. we should start a write-in campaign for Sarah Palin to peel off the fringe

a non-vote for Romney is all we ask. <g>

[AnnieK401]

13. According to John McCain

She's a better candidate than Romney!

[demwing]

22. god please no, there's a perfectly bad Libertarian to peel off that fringe

don't encourage that woman, she's evil and stupid

[AnnieK401]

12. Glad to hear it!

[cbdo2007]

15. Mitt is down 1.5% on intrade today.

[indivisibleman]

18. Thanks for sharing

I would post this on facebook but I don't want to reveal what's happening out there to the right wingers.

[WinstonSmith4740]

19. Congratulations!

My late husband had his epiphany in '92 after listening to Buchanan at the convention. "I don't want to be associated with these people anymore." It was music to my ears. He re-registered as a Democrat the next day, and helped me work to register voters for the Clinton campaign. A few more days of Rmoney's bullshit, and your hubby might just follow suit!

[Skittles]

21. he's just now figuring out repukes are LIARS?

WTF

[grasswire]

24. he's lucky he didn't get an ass kicking, eh? n/t

[Skittles]

25. well

repukes have been behaving like sickening pieces of shit for DECADES so....YES

[HockeyMom]

26. The most I could hope for with my Republican husband

is that he stays home like he did with Bush. He likes "businessman Romney". Stupid.