Romney’s just being what he is: A crass political opportunist. Not that many months ago, he was singing the praises of all of the worst aspects of the current shamnesty bill. Bleh.
I’m afraid he just hasn’t come off that way to me.
Maybe I haven’t looked into his entire history on every issue. I am the last person in the world to get idealistic stars in my eyes over any politician or what they can “do for us”, and maybe there are good and bad things in ALL of them, (God knows, there were things that positively THRILLED me about Alan Keyes, and a few things I positively HATED about him, as a practical candidate focussed on winning rather than just getting his message out)> I would probably feel the same way about Duncan Hunter if I eventually became aware of ALL his positions on things political. I have yet to see a candidate who has the nerve to talk about the need to DE-politicize all these hot-button issues that they keep us in thrall with, instead of harping on the old Conservative theme of “smaller government”, which is a poor substitute for de-politicization, just as poor a substitute as the concept of “non-partisan working together”, which just reinforces hyper-politicization, rather than phasing it out.
That would truly be a step forward.