That was the 2nd point of my response — if they are here (and sure there must be), they are only here because they have specifically chosen NOT to post anything like what you asked them to post. That type of post would get them banned, and they’d be gone.
I’m not one of them (although I’m regularly accused of it, since I endorsed Romney in the final 3 competition, after Thompson dropped out, and I defended Romney way too often before that). But I can’t think of any reason to pick Romney over Santorum or Gingrich. I don’t think Romney would be a better President overall than either of them, and he’d be a lot more problematic in terms of trust on conservative issues. The only reason I can see to want Romney over Gingrich or Santorum is the electability issue, which I don’t see as clearly favoring Romney enough to overcome the strong negatives against him on actual policy and trust, relative to the other two candidates.
I’m ignoring Paul because I don’t want to think about him. That way, I don’t have to decide whether my reasoning would apply in a Paul/Romney race, and so I don’t have to feel like I’m compromising myself to keep quiet here. Because I wouldn’t keep quiet if I felt it was important to speak out, and I would get banned (a lot of people don’t understand that, and assume I’m happy to lie about my positions to keep my place here, which would be antithetical to my nature and to my posting history).
Anyway, the people who seem to argue for Romney on things other than electability (like my current Governor) believe executive experience is the be-all of the argument. Since Romney’s the only governor left, it seems to have forced their hands. And while I would have prefered a governor to a congressperson, all things being equal, it’s not like I’m going to support Buddy Roemer just because he was a Governor. And it’s not like Mitt was a governor that long. Perry had a decade of experience running a pretty large state, really well. Not Mitt. I’d rather have had Pawlenty, or Mitch Daniels, than to have to consider Romney for his experience as Governor.
I was expressing my frustration with the entire Romney campaign (not just supporters here). It’s primarily based on electability (which is ridiculous; even if he can beat Obama, which for reasons I have previously stated he can’t, what is it exactly that we have won?).
“I’m not one of them (although I’m regularly accused of it, since I endorsed Romney in the final 3 competition, after Thompson dropped out,”
You should tell the truth, you supported Romney way before it was down to the final three in 2008. In fact, prior to that, you did all you could to convince people on this site the Mitt Romney was a social conservative and that anything said contrary was an attempt to smear Romney.
You had the love of the contingent of lying Romney pimps and Mittbots who used to frequent this site. I say used to because most of them have ridden the zot out of here.
I’m glad to see that now you have come to your senses and have been behaving yourself lately. It’s good to know that you believe Newt and Santorum would be better than Obama-white. But when you tell lies like saying you supported Mitt only when it got down to the final three, I have to wonder, what else you are lying about and why are you doing it.
Remember you can look up former posts here. You had been posting your love for Mitt throughout 2007 before you made the post below. Look at the date and remember Thompson did not drop out until late January 2008.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945665/posts
Now you can stop telling that lie about supporting Mitt only when it got down to the last three.