So does Mitt Romney have the Republican nomination sealed up, or is it still a race?

[Sacred Jellybean]

You know, you're absolutely right. By the time November 5th rolls around, I'll be absolutely possesed to vote to keep whatever nutjob the Republican platform has nominated to run for election. The Republicans are a bunch of lunatics and their obstructionist policies have been used to hold this nation hostage unless their agenda gets pushed even without a Republican in the White House. They don't really want their agenda forwarded, though. They want this country to tank and people to suffer while a Democrat is at the helm. They're all comfortable and won't be affected by a terrible economy, and they're sociopathic enough to believe in darwinian conservative ideals to begin with, so why not?

So yeah, of course I'll vote for Obama, who'd have the best chances to succeed. But at some point, we have to draw a line in the sand. Not only is Obama spineless and an incompetent negotiator, but his administration has either reneged on campaign promises or made things worse without being leveraged into doing so by politics.

See:

-DOJ defending Don't Ask Don't Tell
-expanding and extending parts of the Patriot Act
-signing of NDAA and Obama's insistence on the power to detain American citizens
-assassinations of American citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his son Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki
-resuming of raids on medical marijuana dispensaries for no reason
-stacking the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with people eager to tear into social security and medicare
-backroom deals with insurance executives to craft the health care legislation (so much for transparency)
-cracking down on whistleblowers more than any other president in history

Unless enough voters get pissed off and make some sort of gesture, Democrats will just keep up the same ineffectual disorganization, and kowtow to Republican demands to push center-right policy.