"Used car salesmen talk a good spiel also."
Look at it this way. We conservatives are looking to buy a nice SUV in this race. Romney shows up with a 2005 Escalade he wants to sell. The other major candidates are selling mid-size sedans. Now, you may think Romney is just a used-care shyster, but the fact remains that if you buy what the other major candidates are selling, you absolutely won't get the SUV you are looking for.
That may not be a perfect analogy because I like Rudy, but you get the point. Even if Romney is less than sincere, he's the only major candidate who is even arguably a conservative right now.
Look at it this way. We conservatives are looking to buy a nice SUV in this race. Romney shows up with a 2005 Escalade he wants to sell. The other major candidates are selling mid-size sedans. Now, you may think Romney is just a used-care shyster, but the fact remains that if you buy what the other major candidates are selling, you absolutely won't get the SUV you are looking for.
The car should sell itself if it is such a good value.
I will say that these cheer leading posts are getting a touch tiresome.
RUDY! Not as liberal as you might think..
McCain! err.....
Romney! He is charming, think of him as our Bill Clinton, he can take either side of a debate with equal ease..
Romney may be related to one of my favorite authors, Edward H. Romney so I'll give him some credit it is still a year away from the primaries, so we shall see...
That's a real good point. With these 'less-than-stellar' candidates, such as McCain, Hunter, Brownback, etc., at BEST we'd get another Bush type figure - meaning conservative on paper, and maybe in practice (through Supreme Court nominations), but not an truly great inspirational leader - to most Americans, not just conservatives. They'd probably bumble through 4 years getting tossed around at will by the media. At this point I see only three candidates who have the potential to be Churchill/Reagan type figures: Gingrich, Romney, and Guiliani.