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.
You lie even to yourself, and you lie repeatedly on this thread, Romney is liberal like no republican at that level that we have ever seen, and has been all of his life, and since you can’t challenge that directly, you try to pretend that he only became liberal as a one term failed governor of Mass., in this post you pretend that you were being challenged for calling him conservative, you don’t appear to have any relationship with honesty.
We do know how Romney would govern if he got the chance, because he did win an election once, and it was as the 4th republican governor in a row, in Mass.
Romney left the party because of Reagan, was anti-Reagan/Bush, despised Reagan, and Senator Helms, and was against the Contract with America, and the most passionate pro-abortion republican that we have ever seen, and was for gay scout leaders and a homosexualized military before everyone, he became a democrat donor and fundraiser, and voter and didn’t rejoin the GOP until October of 1993.
Yet as a con man, you pretend that he had to fake some liberalism after he rejected running for governor of Utah, and decided to run in Mass. in 2002 instead, because it fit his politics better.