[Nowhere Man]

Hello Mitt Romney! Glad to have you on Free Republic!

Thank you! I'm just sitting on the yacht here at Key West with the missus listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on my CD player. B-)

I know it depresses me to at times, but this is not 1955 anymore, sometimes viewpoints change in society, we need to pick key battles where we can win and take it from there. We need to find the issues that we can win on and work on the others form there. Also, when it comes to many things socially, it is not the government's arena to really dictate how we live, we need to look to ourselves and religious bodies for that. We need to return to a more Goldwater style conservatism where government is out of our lives as much as possible.

I don't really think in retrospect, Romney was not all that bad, he had potential. His problem was that he did not attack Bammy with the will to win, the "Eye of the Tiger" so to speak. I think if he came out after him on Bengazi, I think things might have worked our way much better.

[JCBreckenridge]

“sometimes viewpoints change in society, we need to pick key battles where we can win and take it from there.”

Some issues are core, and cannot be conceded. These are core, conservative issues, that cannot and should not be conceded. By conceding them, we’ve essentially awarded leftists the victory here.

“We need to find the issues that we can win on and work on the others form there.”

We have the right issue already. If you believe these are loser issues, then you are in the wrong party. If you want to win on social liberalism - the democrat party seems to be doing just fine.

“We need to return to a more Goldwater style conservatism where government is out of our lives as much as possible.”

My experience is that liberatarians are unreliable on both social and fiscal issues - they will willingly concede fiscal conservativism in order to preserve social liberal causes like publicly funded abortion, etc.

[Norm Lenhart]

“sometimes viewpoints change in society”

Like pedophilia for example. Proof positive that viewpoints are not a good basis of government. It is never ‘right’ to screw children. Even if x percent of society says it is.

Likewise does this apply to other ‘viewpoints’.