Romney understands that much of his base shares these fears, and so he is running to the right on all of this issues. His rhetoric has improved, but one wonders if his core values have improved.
What would happen if Romney truly ran on his record? "Look at what I've done! I brought homosexual marriage to the first state in the union! I'm pro-abortion! I invented Government health Care! If you like Democrat principles, vote for me! If you wanted to vote for Anyone But Obama, vote for me! I'm not the scary, divisive, anti-American guy with the questionable background! Bring America together by throwing Obama out and bringing in some sound Democrat values!!"
Romney might win on a platform like that. He could run as an Al Gore/Mike Dukakis/Walter Mondale Democrat.
I'm not at all sure that Romney will win on the rhetoric he's using now.
After 2010, the numbers were crunched, and it was clear that Obama and the Democrats could not win a mainstream campaign. Instead, they targeted narrow groups, stirred up conflicts over issues aimed at that group, whether it was union pensions, racism or birth control. There was no more pretense of a national election, only a frenzied rush to polarize as many groups as possible and join them together into an acrimonious coalition, not so much for anything, as against Republicans.There isn't any inspiration here. Just paranoia over everything from gay marriage to abortion to racial profiling to illegal immigration. A dozen illegal benefits being handed out with the explicit threat that they will be lost if Romney wins. A dozen mini-civil wars being stirred up to divide Americans and set them at each other's throats for the benefit of the Obama campaign.
Know thine enemy.
While I strongly believe in free market economics, the problem with Obama care is not that it is socialized medicine, but that it is crony-capitalist medicine. A lot of folks are getting paid off a lot of money to do not much in particular. Even genuine euro-socialism is better.
It is an important point in this article. While we scream about socialism, the American disease is crony capitalsim. It is killing us and conservatives have to stop giving a free pass to the latter because they are afraid of the former.
There seems to be a lack of reading comprehension skills on this board. You answer this article with a dig against Romney? Are you hoping that Obama saves you for last?