What does one do with a screen name like that after its shelf life expires (as this one may well within the next half year)? Wasn't there a FR poster named RunPatRun?
“What does one do with a screen name like that after its shelf life expires”
I don’t know- it’s already expired as far as I’m concerned since if I do vote for Romney it will be with my nose held a little bit. I saw Romney give a speech on C-Span a long time ago that knocked my socks off- in a moment of enthusiasm I chose this name.
Part of me still thinks the “real” Mitt is likely a true conservative- after how, how many liberal Mormons do you know? But he has proven himself too much of a political weathervane for my tastes. But what are the choices? Rudy is tough on terror, but his statement several years ago about being to the left of Bill Clinton on immigration stuck in my throat and stayed there.
Thompson is intruiging, but my concerns with him are the votes reported on today, his health problems in the past and the fact that he looks kind of sickly even today, and the fact that he has waited so long to get going and even skipped the debate tonight.
Huckabee is very impressive on some level, but once again we go back to immigration- I recall how he was one of the most pro-illegal alien governors in the country. Why can’t we get a candidate who doesn’t have public acts in the past where he gave a big sloppy kiss to the illegal alien industry? Brownback was the same way the first time the illegal alien bill came before the Senate, then he tried to pretend to be conservative. We all know where McCain stands on this- and he’s half crazy to boot. An extremely weak field of candidates when it comes to my #1, #2 and #3 issue.
As far as I can tell about Romney, even in his most waffling past, he hasn’t said or done anything on illegal immigration that is objetionable to me as things that the other major candidates have said or done. And he’s talking a very good game on the issue now- more so than any other candidate. Rudy is being all vague with his talk about “identifying” illegal aliens as if knowing the names of the invaders is our big problem.
Right now I’m most comfortable with Mitt on immigration and that’s my issue so I’m still leaning towards him. But I’m ready to hear Fred out.