Iowa debates have not been good for Romney.
I tried to like Romney, I really did, but he could not win me over during the debates, If you closed your eyes and just listen to his answers he did not sound like the Reagan Conservative I am looking for. But what really did it, was at the Iowa Debate, the famous “Show of Hands” question.
Q: “Show of hands - How many of you believe Climate Change is a serious threat, and caused by human activity?”
Before Fred saved their butts with his “we are not playing hands” response, Romney, Rudy, McCain, and I think Huckabee all had their hands up. And watch Romney after Fred’s brave interruption, clap his hands and say he agrees with Fred. A little too late for that, he was caught with his hand up. That’s not leadership, that’s me too, me too.
Then after, you here the most idiotic rambling and soft peddling from just about all of them until it was time to move on to the next question. As a Republican, I was embarrassed. Not one of them looked like a Leader on the issue, except for Fred but they wouldn’t let him answer. Not one of them had the brass ones to tell the moderator, “look, there is not one bit of solid evidence that Man is causing any sort of climate change, and were not going to throw billions and billions of dollars at something we don’t even know we can fight”.
Now an answer like that on National TV would have had me and Republicans all over saying YES!, and probably would of sparked our interest in the candidate. But it didn’t happen.
In case you forgot, here is that question on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYtC_jcK1U
In fairness to Mitt, he may not have been raising his hand in response to the question. It’s possible he was merely performing his usual, periodic test of which way the wind is blowing.