Actually, in this case, it is good news that they don't. Otherwise Obama would be reelected. Any Republican, even Ron Paul, is preferable to another Obama term and his appointments/executive orders/destruction of our military. He was caught on an open microphone conspiring to betray our missile defense system. He wants to strip us of our ability to prevent a nuclear attack and to respond to the same. There is no way I can take anyone seriously who equates any of the Republican nominees with this socialist traitor.
To me Romney is just a cipher, an appratchik if you will. He takes on the political views of whatever the dominant group is in the room. Romney is not a conservative or a liberal; Romney is a Romneyian. Essentially he is a salesman, he reflects back his customer's personality and interests in order to sell the product, himself. Some may argue that this is hypocritical and in a perfect world it is. But almost all successful salesmen do this! Some are naturals some have to be trained. I think he is the consummate salesman all sales all the time and doesn't even know it! (Truth in advertising I had to take sales training once and these types of things were taught. However ENTJ engineers with the N and the J off the charts are horrible at such things! Yep that's me!) He is not a deep thinker, not a man with vision, he is strictly a “follow-the-program” manager. I am not saying he is stupid. He clearly is not! But his not an anti-American Marxist ideologue like Zero who as you pointed out might leave us defenseless.
At best he will be the John Anderson administration that never was. (Not a good thing in my opinion!) At worst another Jimmy Carter, a prickly micro-manager incompetent. However again I don't think he is the "See-me-look-at-me-See-I-am-smart-and-capable-and-I-matter" buffoon that Jimmy Carter has morphed into.
Another 4 years of Zero and we could be a permanent 2nd class to 3rd class power, at best Britain or France at worst Spain or Greece. Romney will not do this! Now Romney will manage our decline optimally so its slower, he won't have a clue how to change it. Instead of racing off to be the next “Greece” at the 1000 mph and accelerating, we head there at 300 mph with the rate of acceleration decreasing.
Mainly he does this by not being Zero, which won't require a lot of thought on his part.
To get control of this run away freight train first you have to slow it down, if Romney leaves us with at least that then OK.
Truth in advertising I prefer Gingrich mainly because ideas matter and I think major changes have to be made and he is the only one who has articulated them responsibly. .
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(Responsibly is the key word that excludes Paul! I wish Paul would realize there are two stampedes headed right at us, he understands one, the economic problem. However he fails to acknowledge the other Islamism. It doesn't make any difference in what we do, or don't do appease or don't appease. They hate us and want to kill us because we exist. It's that simple! World war is coming because of the chaos that Islamism is causing, we need to get the economy back on track and prepare. I can't decide if its like 1920 or 1930.)