The more I hear about Romney the less I like him, and I didn’t like him to start with. The game-show-host polish is not what I’m looking for in a president. And yet, slickness in a candidate seems to coincide with slickness in his campaign, and Fred could use a little slick in that department.
Nevertheless, I watched the MTP interview with Fred, and he strikes me as a mature, sensible, wise man; a statesman. While I’m not completely satisfied with his comments on a certain issue, he is clearly the best of the batch.
I DID like him to start with, or at least I was certainly prepared to like him very much, because so many people I respect(ed) were in his camp, and because I liked the first visual, capitalist, and ethical impression he made. Also, I have considerable (if sometimes grudging) respect for Mormons overall, and that was a plus in my book.
Like you, the more I learned about his political views, the less I liked him. Upon investigation, it became crystal clear that underneath all that nice talk and smooth boo-sh*t (I basically sling bull for a living and thus know it when I see it), he is a big-government nanny stater who is in a way MORE dangerous than Low-Sodium Democrats like Rudy and Schwarzenegger because he thinks he's got God on his side. That type of innocent arrogance should stay out, out, out of the White House.
[Thompson] ... is clearly the best of the batch.
I hope, wish, and pray that Republican primary voters recognize the truth of that statement in time to make Thompson our presidential nominee.
You’re concentrating too much on Romney’s looks. There’s a humongous I.Q. behind those looks. Thompson’s a dolt.