An obsequious waffler with no true convictions, forever with a finger in the wind. (He accurately sees that larger America likes a “severe conservative.”)
Compared to a resolute doctrinaire Marxist.
I think I know who I’d rather take a chance on.
That doesn't describe Mitt Romney at all, read post 4870, Romney knows exactly who he is, and has passionately advanced his politics, with money, fund raising, campaigning, governing, and he has been bold in his speaking for, and advancing liberalism, and now he is the presidential nominee of the republican party.
When 2005/6 came, and it was time to take over the GOP at the national level, he did almost an entire reversal of all of his public politics and beliefs, did it work? Read your posts, look at who the nominee is, it worked.