Putting myself in a politician’s shoes for just a second, (probably all I can tolerate) Romney received the nomination from the rank and file GOP largely because he was a Governor and a republican, but his governing of a very, very liberal northeastern state created numerous conflicts with positions taken in the past, as he tried politically to relate with a much more conservative political base nationally.
The libs had one heck of a party providing ammo to be used against Romney and it destroyed his election due to turnout as well as third party protest votes.
It is what it is....and it does us no good to re-plow that ground.. Romney will not likely get in the ring again, and I actually believe he is trying to use what network he has to raise money for the GOP and other candidates, just as Sarah Palin has.
The only reason I decided to post on what will become another useless bashing exercise was to try to intelligently state in a rational way that I would not be supporting any effort to put him up again. We have already seen that movie.
I have never called Romney a liar. He is a politician! That would be a doubly redundant....:-)
However, I still have reluctance to run a congressman or senator. But for this next election, I will set aside that issue and others to elect a conservative, with the fire of leadership in his/her belly.
Gee we have to play this game with you guys forever?
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.
The only debate appears to be whether, if a moderate RINO like Romney or McCain gets the Republican nomination again in 2016, it would be better to vote against the Democrat or stay home.
My intention is to do whatever I can to get a conservative nominated, but if we get stuck with another RINO, then hold my nose and vote for the lesser of the two evils in the general election. A lot of Freepers disagree and refuse to ever vote for another RINO.