***As I said at least twice and now for the third time, I don’t dispute that Romney as a politician, said a lot of things to the constituencies while in Massachusetts running for Governor***
You really are a dishonest romneybot, trying to pretend that Romney hasn’t been liberal and even a democrat supporter all of his life instead of just when he decided to run in Massachusetts instead of Utah.
Romney is a hardcore, lifelong, liberal, that is why he chose Massachusetts to run in instead of Utah, which he considered, it is also why Reagan was enough to drive him from the GOP, and why Romney became a supporter of, a fund raiser for, and a voter for, democrats, it is why he ran to the LEFT of Ted Kennedy on the homosexual agenda and gays in the military and gay scout leaders and was more passionate than Ted on abortion, it is why he was pro-abortion since at least 1963 and fund raised for Planned Parenthood (which he lied about until a photo surfaced), and was so passionate in his pro-abortion arguments.
Romney isn’t just dishonest, he is a pathological liar, his history is full of being caught in massive embarrassments and major lies once a photo, or video, or audio tape emerges, he lies when he doesn’t need to and some lies, such as Reagan was”adamantly pro-choice” he will spread for years, he has lied about who and where he was when his religion accepted blacks to equality, he lies about his draft evading, he used to lie about he and his father having marched with Martin Luther King, he lied extensively about his illegal aliens, he lied about the conversation that he claimed converted him to life just in time to run for president, it is compulsive with him.
I never said at any time...ever, that Romney is a conservative in the global sense of the word. Since all you want to do is discuss Romney, I'll tell you what I had assessed.
Romney is a social liberal/ sometime moderate and a fiscally moderate conservative. He has the same sort of political pedigree that the vast majority of republicans have and some of wall street and much of the activist investor class, which is where he came from. .
In that respect he is little different then most of the nominees we have had in the last 20 years plus or minus. Bush was more socially conservative but fiscally more moderate. McCain and Romney, as well as Bob Dole, Daddy Bush were pretty much on the same political plain as is the republican party as a whole. So Romney, while not conservative, was also not a liberal in the true sense of the word.
Having said that.....I need to go to the major issues facing America during the election that he lost.
I ask you, were the major issues social........or fiscal? Were they largely domestic only, or did foreign policy need attention.
If you answer that question honestly, you would see why I voted for him. But you won't do that.
I also felt that Romney may not have had the ability, as Bush did not, to reign in the republican congress who are constantly trying to out do the democrats on social spending. So on that count, I gave him a question mark.
Reality dictates that we will never know how Romney would have governed. Elections only show what the candidate is willing to say to satisfy constituencies and gain the most votes, but they always change once elected with the exception of most campaign promises. So I don't know and neither do you,.... how he would have governed.
But I do know that he would have at the very least, stopped the Marxist Obama second term trajectory which is hard left.