Bummer. If it boils down to McCain and Romney I’ll be hard pressed to find a reason to bother voting. I don’t see either one being any better than Hillary.
A piece of burnt toast would be better than Shrillary.
We all know it hurts.
I appeal that you folks think about Romney NOT in the context of “advancing the Conservative agenda” because I know you all don’t believe he will, but rather in the context of what is his image and what is very likely, or certainly true. Uber competence.
He was valedictorian of his undergraduate school. That means he was top of the class. He simultaneously worked on and received a law degree AND an MBA from Harvard. My recall is he did both in the top 5% of his class.
I submit for your consideration that uber competence in 2009 is more important than “advancing the Conservative agenda” because, simply, a Democratic Congressional majority will allow no agenda of any kind to come from a GOP President, no matter who he is. All that can happen is dilution of the left wing agenda. A slowing of it. I submit that a strong stalwart conservative would galvanize left wing hatred and generate veto overrides from that larger majority they will have then than they have now.
A genius or near genius inclined if not powerfully rightward, then at least somewhat rightward of the Democrats will be more effective stopping that.
So that’s my case for Romney. He is rightward of McCain and smarter than McCain in the financial area, which is now looming as the biggest challenge ahead. Huckabee . . . intellectually, does not play in the same league. And Guilliani is essentially overtly pro Choice.
We welcome your thoughts in considering Romney after you have come to acceptance of the unpleasant news.
“I don’t see either one being any better than Hillary.”
Then you are incapable of drawing distinctions in the real world.
Either one is better than Hilliary, but Romney is by far better than McCain.
I'm really getting tired of people threatening not to vote. Until Reagan's second term I had voted for the lesser of two evils in every election (I didn't know Reagan would be such a good pres until after he was in office a while). I only knew that we needed to keep the Rats out, so I held my nose and pulled the lever. A non-vote for the Republican candidate (whoever it may be) is the same as half a vote for the Democrat.
Oh,c’mon....Romney is better than Hitlery.
Actually,there are few who are further left than Hitlery.