Romney is not a conservative - or a liberal. He’s an opportunist who really, really wants to be President and has spent huge amounts of his personal fortune trying to get there in the eight years he has been campaigning.
When he was governor of MA, he really, really wanted to be governor - so he sided with the liberal issues popular with liberal MA.
None of his vaunted businesses have been his own - he was a wealthy man from a wealthy family with contacts and he was always part of a group in thses businesses. And he went with the flow.
I don’t think the selection of Ryan means that Romney has become a conservative. I think it means he sat down with his advisers, realized he was never going to get elected with a liberal message or, in fact, no message at all, which was really what he had. Remember that even during the debates, he would wait until somebody spoke before him, usually Newt, and got applause and then he would say “me too.”
And some how, miracle of miracles, the advisers got him to accept the one person who actually has defined conservative ideas and a plan, which Romney was woefully lacking.
So I’m going to wait and see. If Romney really lets Ryan speak and also supports Ryan’s plan, then I’ll vote for him (even though I don’t like the idea of letting a Mormon near the White House, but heck, we already have a non-Christian president).
However, if he does to Ryan what McCain did to Palin, which was to keep her at arms length, not support her and not adopt any of her ideas, I’m not voting for him.
Very good and interesting points.
I live in California so I am able to vote for anyone I choose and it wont matter, Obama has already bought this state.