Dear Jeff, I've already written about this, here. It didn't seem to make any difference to people who have already made up their minds that Romney is an evil Left Progressive liberal and spawn of Hell.
But you cannot get blood out of a stone — the stone here being the Massachusetts political machine as fronted by a Legislature that is overwhelmingly and openly Marxist in its approach to all public questions.
I wouldn't characterize him as governing as a "liberal" here at all. He actually got tax cuts passed.... Which is a very big deal in Taxachusetts — tax cutting definitely goes against the normal grain hereabouts.
Plus as a holder of a Class A License to Carry (a high-capacity firearm "for all lawful purposes"), I was deeply impressed by the ease with which I was able to renew my license under his Administration, and the greater ease that first-time applicants for firearms licensing now enjoy as compared with past experience in this state.
FWIW.
Thanks ever so much for writing, dear Jeff!
Like you, I think his nomination is a much worse event in actual impact than would be his actual election measured against another term by Obama.
The GOP party machinery has had fifty years of doing this back stab to conservatism. In the YAF in the early sixties, I hung door-knob greetings for the Goldwater campaign to help get out the vote in suburban areas near where I lived. The GOP establishment was weak kneed at best.
From Dole to Romney, we have establishment Republicans playing the game and it is certainly no more than reasonable to have any conservative, Jim included, to take the position that this is ENOUGH and to hold that position to the great discomfort of the GOP as a whole. That is civil, that is non-revolutionary, that is reforming — in a word, Conservative.
We have a civil culture and heritage of resistance to ecclesiastical authority. Whether it is Catholic, Baptist, Adventist, or Episcopal, rigid controlling church authority have always run counter to the colonial and founding heritage. It is very convoluted because most of the separatist sects that promoted colonization were heavily controlling communities themselves — a real paradox. That tradition is part of what we are seeing voiced against the Mormons and Mitt is why it is front and center here in many discussions.
I think that we have to push for conservative principles in all our decisions and use conservative sensibilities to keep our internal significant disagreements civil until we see what the congressional and presidential results are as a whole at the end of the next 24 weeks.
Thank you betty, I know of your conservstive principles and dedication after these many years.
Your word is more than good enough for me, along with others (including family on my wife’s side) who lived there.
I will use the word “moderate” in the future by virtue of your recommendation.
I hope others are reasing and listening and will understand how dire it is to remove Obama from office, and that Romney will be orders of magnitude better than the horror of another 4 years of the Kenyan Marxist.