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Pray tell, madam, what did Slick Willard bring to the table ? As one who has watched him closely for 14 years, who was there for his campaign for Senator, what is it you see that the rest of us don’t ?

Well, sir, I saw a man/politician who knew how to "politic". I'll never forget in the Rep. primary debates an exchange between Romney/McCain where the question was about "Big Prescription". Romney had McCain cornered about his dislike and wanting to punish drug research companies profits. Romney said, (paraphrasing), "They are not the enemy.". McCain said (paraphrsing, again), "Yes, they are."

That, and other exchanges showed me that Romney understood business, the prescription drug industry (a very small issue), and politics way more than McCain. I'm not saying Romney is the answer for the future. I just see this Romney bashing as unhealthy and unproductive. FReepers couldn't get behind a candidate early on with all the in-fighting. We have WAY bigger problems, now. (I'm not blaming FReepers for that, because if most were honest, they would admit they voted for McCain, no matter what they thought about him.)

A bigger first issue I see in the future is we have a really crappy Republican primary process. While we were arguing about this or that candidate, early on, the rest of the country was picking a pretty weak candidate for the Rep. party.

I'm just saying, we need to focus on what to change in the future. Romney was not the problem in the past. McCain gave us Gov. Palin as a viable candidate in the future. We can argue how to defend/support Palin in the future.

I discount debates entirely where he is concerned. I watched him breathlessly and shamelessly lie to crowds about his positions (and this was as long ago as 1994). No, indeed, words are cheap. You pay attention to what they do. This guy was a menace to Republicans and Conservatives alike, he’d pay off people to support him to give him “credibility.” He literally believes the Presidency IS his God-given right. That was the only reason why he entered politics in the first place. He ran against Kennedy in 1994 because he absolutely believed that the party would fall all over themselves to hand him the nomination for President in 1996. He tried to buy the nomination this time and got exposed as a total fraud and liar. When he couldn’t bribe his way onto McCain’s ticket, he made sure that the ticket would go down by having his same paid agents that swarm these boards like a plague of locusts badmouth Gov. Palin, who unlike him, actually has accomplished something in office.

Make no mistake, he has no use for us people beyond getting him the Presidency. He’d throw you and your family under a bus to get what he wants. He has no use for a Republican majority or ANY other Republican winning office except ones that would swear absolute allegiance to advancing HIM. The only difference between him and the new dictator-select is the color of their skin. He and other RINOs of his ilk that have laid to waste our strengths over the past 15 years ARE the biggest enemy to the Conservative movement and the Republican party, and they must be completely and thoroughly exposed for what they are...