I’d take Romney over Paul.
I don’t give a damn about the Mormon stuff. I think Mormonism is largely a cult, and some otherwise good people have gotten caught up in it. I’ll judge Romney on Romney ... not on generic Mormonism.
Romney tells you what you want to hear. He believes what you want him to believe. He is a slave to his popularity, which means he’ll listen to his voters when we think he’s wrong. I’d rather he be instinctively right ... but I don’t think he has it in him.
Paul is an ideologue. If he’s wrong, he’ll go down in flames in his wrongness ... and he’ll take us down with him. And, he’s wrong a LOT. His foreign policy is a catastrophe.
I’d prefer an ideologue that’s right over a finger-to-the-wind politician. But, I’ll take a finger-to-the-wind politician over an ideologue that’s wrong.
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