[TheLion]

I like Mitt’s philosophy. He has a very definite opinion about how far the purview of government should reach....thereby giving individuals more freedom and reducing the size and scope of government.

He is very strong on individual rights.

[JasonC]

Except his reduction in unilateral. The government still interfers in every sort of moral issue. He just obeys the main stream media on such things, rather than risk having his personal beliefs made into an issue. Which is a simply lack of philosophic confidence or of political courage, or both.

[Finny]

He is very strong on individual rights.

The individual's right to break convention and march down the street as a gay minor, okay, I can see that, and grudgingly agree. It's society's job to discourage homosexuality, not government. BUT ...

Romney used the government to endorse a Gay Youth Pride event. Any politician who believes that the government has a role in the declared sexual orientation of minors, isn't a Republican.