Romney is a no go simply on his political record.
But I’ll be perfectly blunt, his religious beliefs would give me pause, simple because (imho) Mormanism doesn’t pass the “reasonable man” test—if you laid out all the evidence (for and against) would a reasonable person be able to the come to the conclusion that a religious belief is true?
There are a number of religions that pass that test. And I don’t just mean western religions. I’m talking Eastern religions too.
But Mormanism doesn’t. There are too many problems with it. A person couldn’t honestly examine all the evidence and come away with the opinion that Mormanism was the real thing unless: (1) they glossed over or ignored some of the evidence, or (2) had poor judgement skills.
A president with religious beliefs I don’t agree with (including being say a Hindu)? I can handle that; it wouldn’t be a problem. A president with poor judgement skills; that’s a problem.
You could say that same thing about Bachmann too. Only in her instance, her political beliefs are tried and true.
Romney’s policies on the other hand, are unsupportable by Conservatives. Your test seems to ring true with him, but the test seems to fail on her.
I remain unconvinced that Bachmann is a loyalist to the Robert’s mantra. I’ve known a lot of high school and college kids who went to parochial schools. The idea each one of them graduated with a die-hard devotion to the focused dogma is a very flawed perception.
You don’t know that Bachmann bought the Robertson dogma hook line and sinker. Here clear-headed thinking I’ve seen certainly wouldn’t lead me to think she was a fuzzy thinker at all.
Is she a person Republicans and Independents could support? I am convinced of it.
Look, this is a bell-ringer election. Obama is vulnerable. The last thing I want to do is replace him with some RINO clown.
Bachmann is the real thing. She gets it. We would be very lucky to have her.