[SoConPubbie]

I don't care what he said to get elected in Massachusetts, I am more interested in what he is saying to get elected for President. Aside from his inexplicable support of Global Warming, he seems to be heading in the right direction, he just needs Conservative pressure to help keep pushing him in the right direction, especially on Judges.

I'm not concerned with what he is promising or saying, I'm concerned with his record, and the fact that he is consistently and constantly lying.

CPAC - 2012 Romney lies:

1. "I have always been Pro-Life"
2. "I was a severely conservative governor of MA"

I refuse to live in a fantasy land where my POTUS vote and support is concerned and hope that somehow, though there is no historical evidence to support it, that Romney will somehow change his spots and start nominating conservative jurists.

His record is the exact opposite:

Out of 36 nominations, 27 were far left-wing, Progressive Liberal Democrats.

Legal analysts say candidate Romney is different from Gov. Romney.

Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.

“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Mitt Romney’s actions as governor scream from the rooftops that he cannot be trusted with this most important of presidential responsibilities.”

Barber cites two specific examples of Romney’s radical appointments.

“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, ‘living, breathing’-minded judges to the bench,” Barber said.

“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”

“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

Baldwin agreed, citing Romney’s statements about the two requirements he actually used when selecting judges.

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”

Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:

“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”

Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”

“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”

[rdcbn]

I agree with most of the points you wish to make about Romney, but the fact is he IS the nominee.

Conservatives now need to become a great enough force for Romney's election that he will have to promise to govern as conservatively as possible, to renounce the Global Warming Cap and Trade scam, to support pro life policiesand Judges, and to promise to appoint Judges who will follow the Constitution to get their votes and win the election.

That is kind of how the American political system works. What kind of influence will Conservatives have in a Romney Administration if they proclaim him their sworn enemy.