RE: Would that be a good thing?
I believe that Todd Akin and Richard Murdock being in the Senate would be much better than the alternatives if that’s what you’re asking.
Allen west being in Congress would have been better than his opponent winning.
RE: Consider the recent push on gun-banning... do you think the republicans would have put up as much resistance (pitiful though it was) if Romney had been in office?
With Todd Akin, Richard Murdock and Allen West in there? YES.
RE: Romney would, at best, maintain status quo — at worst there would be “party unity” on implementing his socialist dreams.
Again, I never said Romney was the best of the bunch that wanted to be President in 2012.
We are comparing Romney with OBAMA and THAT makes the huge difference.
I have personally never bought the argument that Romney would be just as bad or worse than Obama. All my gut instincts tell me he would be better (even if it isn’t saying much ).
If a train is on the way towards the cliff at 100 MPH (Obama), I’d rather it ran at 75 MPH ( Romney ) so that it will give me more time to prepare.
Jump off at 100 MPH ASAP, dust yourself off and head for the hills because it just keeps going faster.
> If a train is on the way towards the cliff at 100 MPH (Obama), I’d rather it ran at 75 MPH ( Romney ) so that it will give me more time to prepare.
And what I’m saying is that to my POV the difference isn’t a mere 35 MPH, it’s 2 MPH when you’re talking about bullet-trains [~185 MPH] over a 50 Mile stretch — so little difference compared to everything that for practical end-user usage there’s little point in distinguishing it.
>> RE: Consider the recent push on gun-banning... do you think the republicans would have put up as much resistance (pitiful though it was) if Romney had been in office?
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> With Todd Akin, Richard Murdock and Allen West in there? YES.
You’re “assuming things not in evidence” to use the legal phrase, the scenario was only whether an Obama/Romney election-win would have altered things — I said nothing about Akin/Murdock/West winning as well. (Granted I do think that they’d be against the gun-control if they had, West especially, but that’s not what we’re talking about.)
> We are comparing Romney with OBAMA and THAT makes the huge difference.
Not really, it’s like comparing Mao and Stalin mass murderers [30M & >20M, respectively] when the question isn’t about their mass-murderer but whether it’s desirable to have a Tyrant at the head of government at all.