[reasonisfaith]

“Yes, the hand thing was cool and all, but don’t forget this (see post #147) about his past record on that topic”

Okay I read it.

We can go ahead and take the hard line—nobody should ever be allowed to change their positions on anything. But that really doesn’t make sense.

What we need is a leader who is independent-minded, bold, and clear thinking. Thompson showed in the Iowa debate that has all three qualities, beating Romney on at least the first two while scoring no less than Romney on the third.

[Bahbah]

We can go ahead and take the hard line—nobody should ever be allowed to change their positions on anything. But that really doesn’t make sense.

Of course it doesn't. If that were the case, I would still be a Democrat.

[rodguy911]

I don’t think there are any of us that don’t evolve politically,it’s all I do. Not as much now, but it’s just part of begin alive.
Things change.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Romney has clearly shown he is independent-minded, clear thinking and bold as well. Governing conservatively in a red state isn’t heavy political lifting, it is more like rolling off a log. Romney, in true blue Massachusetts, was fighting upstream against raging left-wing rapids and he held the line against an 85% liberal legislature. His veto record gives us an idea of how independent-minded and bold he can be:

Over the course of four budgets, Governor Romney made over 300 line-item reductions, 350 line-item eliminations and struck language 150 times. In total, Gov. Romney issued 844 vetoes during his administration.

[redgirlinabluestate]

We can go ahead and take the hard line—nobody should ever be allowed to change their positions on anything. But that really doesn’t make sense.

And, on this we can agree. ;-)