The arguments you present are very reasonable and they are the same ones we heard when Bush II was running - both times.
And yet we have more larger and more overbearing G’memt. EPA regulations are strangling the Oil industry, they have killed the Coal powered Electrical utilities and coal industries.
I do not see Mittens as the answer. I do hope we can elect enough congressmen and senators who believe in a limited G’ment. I have so little hope
I believe that Presidents come and go, but real power over the long term resides in Congress. I am pinning my hopes on TEA Party candidates winning Congressional seats across the country. The don’t get as much credit as they deserve, but the GOP freshmen have been holding Boehner’s feet to the fire. If we could have a repeat of 2010, Congress could make even Willard look Conservative. Romney was not my first choice or even my third choice, but right now he is my only choice. On his worst day he is vastly superior to Obama on his best day.