I know this may be unpopular here, but I am thrilled w R and R so far.
Mitt is still worth being wary of in our plans, but to me, simple prudence suggests it is better for the condition of the country now to vote towards a situation where Mitt comes out ahead of Barack. It’s kind of hard to critique how good or bad a job the GOP is doing at keeping itself conservative in a country which threatens to cease to exist as we know it. Survival to fight another day matters. The thing we call a vote is as much of Caesar’s world as the political system that promulgated it. It never defined a vote as being a particularized blessing or endorsement. It is simply a way of allowing the hand of the public to be upon the railroad switches of state. (Why weren’t the neverMitts of the world all apoplectic over the primaries in which non-Mitt candidates could in principle have easily prevailed — if people got off their duffs? Why is their wrath spent upon general elections?)
I’m not unhappy with his campaign so far (especially when compared to McCain’s) but I reserve judgment on his governing, of course. Wanting to be President and being a good one aren’t the same thing, as we know from Obozo. But of course he has to win the White House before we can ever find out what kind of President he’ll be. This is definitely not a case of better the devil you know. It’s not even possible for Romney to hate white people like Obozo does, that’ll be one difference.