“Mitt the Mormon will both crumble...too much baggage”
huh? Mitt’s gonna hack a heck of a lot less baggage than Fred and all the tail he’s been chasing in Hollywood.
“Mitt the Mormon will both crumble...too much baggage”
“huh? Mitt’s gonna hack a heck of a lot less baggage than Fred and all the tail he’s been chasing in Hollywood.”
It’s a bizarre comment, indeed.
Mitt: Multi-millionaire super-succesful venture capitalist, who is still married to his first wife and has grandkids, but looks real good for his age, and is amazingly articulate on TV. So articulate the main hit on him is that he is ‘too smooth’. Smart, successful, family man, and managed to win in a blue state.
Mitt’s baggage so far is that he locked his dog in a cage when he took his dog on family vacation 20 years ago(!)
The word weird has been used against Mitt. I’ll tell you weird, it’s the weirdness of the attacks on him. He’s ‘too slick’ - after years of lamenting how bad GOP PR is. His religion - when we are facing a Dem party that has become anti-religious. The fact that he’s become prolife conveniently after running differently in a blue state where such a position would be politically fatal - Mitt gets the hit yet all these others who had similar shifts have their bios ignored.
Maybe Mitt’s problem is that, while he’s running as a Reagan, we don’t quite believe it; maybe, we are more likely to get a smarter, more articulate, more competent, slightly-more-conservative-than George W Bush ... and many conservatives are not really wanting it. We really want Reagan.
Problem is, even Reagan wasn’t “Reagan” the myth. Reagan compromised, enjoyed Tip O’Neill’s company, raised taxes (after he cut them), and gave us at least one supreme court justice who caused heartburn for conservatives - Sandra Day O’Connor. Reagan wasn’t about doing everything right for conservatives, but about standing for conservative principles as best he could.
If we have a candidate will to articulate conservative principle, advocate them, govern on them, and do his best to convince others to think and do likewise, we can’t go wrong. While I understand skepticism about Mitt’s campaign, we should at least appreciate his embrace in the campaign of conservative positions on life, small government, free markets, marriage, etc. Romney has to prove he really means it ... and so does Thompson.
Don’t tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.