“For most of it turning around dying companies, turning a profit with the Olympics, and winning election as Governor in a liberal state..and making babies with the only woman he’s ever been married to.”
1960s- storming out on Goldwater at the 1964 convention with his father, dodging the draft while his father ran for president as the anti-war candidate. Living in France.
1970s-Supporting his mothers 1970 pro choice (he claims)senate race. Bishop and Stake President in the Mormon church teaching Mormon ‘stuff’ while the Mormons had their black thing going on. Remaining pro abortion and staying out of the post Roe vs Wade pro life movement.
1980s-Is against Reagan and participates enough in politics to register as independent and starts donating exclusively to liberal democrat politicians.
1990s continues donating exclusively to liberal democrat politicians in multiple states. Re registers as republican in 1993, stops giving money to democrat politicians but still supports Planned Parenthood fundraising both by attending and giving. Comes out against the Gingrich Revolution. Runs a losing race for office against Ted Kennedy taking a position to the left of Kennedy on the Gay Power question. He stays liberal and is no help to any conservative movements.
2000s- Still liberal wins his one and only election. In the second half of the decade he has a startling series of stroke like epiphanies and emerges as a die hard right winger on all issues, past, present, and future, just in time to start running for the presidential race of 2008.
Dang those pesky facts!
Sure gets in the way of a good fairy tale!
When you begin citing 1964....sorry I was six years old at the time, Romney wasn’t that much older. Goldwater did get his ass kicked, btw. The Vietnam war was a mistake, btw.
His religion is irrelevant, unless you are a bigot, then it has ‘meaning’. I’m not a bigot. I’m remarkably disinterested in how you choose to spend your time on a Sunday, or a Saturday, or on a Wednesday night at a tent revival for that matter.
Funny, I thought Freedom of Religion was a ‘foundation’ of this nation, one that we ALL supported. I’ve since learned over the years many just give it lip service, until they run into a politician they detest...then suddenly that basic tenant goes right out the window with the bath water.
As I noted yesterday, there was no viable Conservative in the RNC primaries, as I defined it up above. So for me, a small business owner understanding the economic problems we were facing last spring, Romney was the best qualified as a CEO to become President.
We ended up with McCain because of the...odd things you choose to deem important here. Odd IMHO, you disagree, no problem.
But how did that work out? Pretty sure you see my point.