I think this is interesting. Even though I am pleased that Palin seems to be a good pick, it makes me feel good to know that Romney is helping McCain. I am also looking forward to seeing him speak at the convention.
Romney has shown a lot of class during this election year. Wish him well.
Desert News | August 31, 2009 | Lisa Rocha
Reports from the future?
I expect to see Romney in a McCain cabinet.
I have been very vocal during the primary and VP selection processes against Romney, often vilified for it. I still feel I have sized his record up correctly and that he would have been a disaster in either role. But, I believe he has great potential to serve the nation in the role of Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of Treasury, and I hope he is selected for one of those.
He really needs to prove over the next 4 to 8+ years that he truly is a conservative and that his troubling record is way in his past, since it is his record, not his words, that caused the strong opposition to his candidacy.
We need strong conservative candidates, so I wish him great success in proving those of us who opposed him wrong.
Conservatism is logically and by experience all over the world, the best way to go.
Where ever there is small government, and the people are left alone to be free and self solve their own problems, the people's state is one of constant improvement and wealth.
That being so, and the US having the fortune of the experience and success of Reagan, and the growth and wealth of southern states that are more conservative, as contrasted with the northern states that are more liberal, then why did Mitt only become a conservative the last few years?
He's not uneducated. Stanford, BYU, Harvard Law and a Harvard MBA.
He familiar with finance, and must of been aware of industry flight from Massachusetts to libertarian, old Yankee(ish) Republican New Hampsire and flight to the south.
Obviously Mitt was aware of Reagan, Bush. Even he said in his run against Teddy, that he wasn't a Reagan/Bush man.
Now he is. Fine. I don't believe it, but I'll accept it.
But here is the question.
Why was he so late to the Reagan Revolution.? Even in communist Poland and the Baltics and China, they knew and followed Reagan. But not Mitt.
Why? It's not education. It's not ignorance or for lack of practical experience.
I'll answer it. I feel it was character. Mitt has a fatal flaw. Fatal. He has wanted to be President so much, for so long, he'll do and say what he feels, wrongly, that he has to say.
If someone else has a better explanation for a highly educated person, with great finance and business experience, having seen the world wide success of conservatism for the betterment of people all over the world, and to have only embraced it in the last few years, I'd love to hear it.