Posted on 08/27/2008 7:52:58 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
He was a gutless governor who rolled over for an out of control state supreme court that mandated gay marriage.
If he had had the guts for a constitutional crisis and confrontation, we would not have gay marriage in MA (and probably not CA either).
He could have been courageious, instead he’s a manicured neuticle.
(And nobody can overlook the fact that gay marriage could easily lead to legalizing polygamy, something many surmise the Mormon Church would quickly be on board with).
Nope.
Oh, and one more time, with feeling . . . There Is No Such Thing As A Conservative.
There are only people more conservative than others.
Romney is more conservative than either Obama or Biden in total and that makes him more preferred than either. Case closed.
Because he’s such a smarmy SOB and his supporters are so arrogant that pretty much everyone enjoys watching him repeatedly fail.
I was just explaining your two additional points to my parents last night. I’ve been saying since the primaries that the GOP could just use soundbites from the Dem primaries without filtering in their ads and be very effective. Good to know McCain had my room bugged. :) However, I’ve also been saying that our nominee should NOT pick someone from our primary contestants for the exact same reason. McCain will be tying his own noose if he picks Romney after his own recent sets of attack ads.
And sold their souls in doing so.
Coming from a conservative, this reasoning is hard to understand. Romney has been very successful outside of government, which is just the kind of people we want in government.
Also, his government experience was in the executive branch, again the type of experience that shows he knows how to run things. Obama and Biden come up short in both of these areas.
That being said, I think Romney would be a good president but is one of those guy who could never be elected to the position because of the negative reaction he stirs up in a lot of people. He should not be on the ticket.
“This insane Mormon hatred on FR and apparently NR borders on derangement syndrome.”
I’ve seen all sorts of hatred on FR, but NR? David Frum?
For the record, Frum is Jewish. Jews, by doctrine, could care less how other people worship, as long as they are monotheistic, which (I presume without knowledge) Mormonism is.
Romney’s faith is irrelevant to me. I have followed your posts touting Cantor for VP citing his ability to attract Jewish voters. Is Cantor’s chosen faith important to you?
1. His position on illegal immigrants. 2. His stance fighting radical islam.
Checkmate!
The National Review endorsed Romney.
On a crude political level, Cantor’s faith will be useful in swing states, as Jewish people are concetrated in them, and there is unheard-of hostility toward Obama among Jewish voters.
The blind support of so many mormons for the Romney, evangelicals for the Huckster, blacks for Obama, and middle-age women for Hillary showed me that identity politics, which disgust me, are alive and well as a political reality.
It is otherwise irrelevant.
“Frum was one of Giuliani’s biggest supporters for the GOP nomination. I don’t believe a word he says.”
Frum is also strongly pro abortion.
FRED THOMPSON:
Kill the terrorists
Secure the borders
Punch the hippies
Now there is a veep that could attract my vote....
“2. Obama will use Romney’s attacks on McCain to the same effect as McCain is using Biden’s and Hillary’s attacks on Obama.”
I certainly didn’t see all the ads Romney ran, but much of his criticism of McCain was very issue specific, criticism on things such as amnesty where McCain agreed with and worked with Obama and other Dem. candidates. Just what sort of Romney criticism of McCain do you think could be used against a McCain/Romney ticket as some of Biden’s remarks about Obama are being used?
This article, and others like it about all the primary candidates, point up how good it would be to have a solid conservative who isn't a well known guy or gal knocked about in the media.
I think I have settled on the opinion that Eric Cantor would be the best choice. I like his four tems in office. I like his leadership and his solid conservatism. He will be a new fresh face on the national interviews and debates and all the voting population are tired of the long campaign's exposure of the same twelve faces.
Vice President does not make policy. The VP has two reasons for being........Vote to break a tie in the senate and watch the health of his President.
LBJ may have won it for Kennedy, and I'd speculate that Ford-Reagan would have defeated Carter. It can be important in a close race, particularly in making the candidates points effectively. Probably 4 or 5 people that could do the job, including Romney. I think the fit with McCain is the most important part. The Mormon thing is odd, but I doubt it would be a factor in the general election.
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