Posted on 10/16/2012 10:52:22 AM PDT by SarahPalin2012
Or would you have still backed Cain/Gingrich/Santorum/Christie/Palin (whoever your choice was from before or during the primary). I think it's an interesting question. Mitt wasn't my first choice, but am glad that he is doing so well. Would you now prefer Mitt over another who may or may not have done as well? Of course, I myself am a completely committed supporter of Mitt Romney since the primary was decided.
He’s still a liberal and despite the fantasies of him being a great conservative, he will end up disappointing a lot of people.
To add, the RINO faction that was pushing for Romney all along are the same scum that have records of pushing for open-borders/amnesty, cap-and-trade idiocy, homo-marriage, and buddied up with the media to backstab and character-assassinate Palin. In other words, people that I would gladly like to see dead.
It makes for quite a mental barrier as to whether or not I can get myself to actually pull the lever for Romney. I’ve never stated what I will do on election day, because I genuinely don’t know, and probably won’t until the day arrives.
Herman Cain was my choice until he was run off by the big shots in the RNC, I’ll vote for Mitt but not real happy with, Hussein has to go!!!
I NEVER want a proved Socialist at the top of the Republican ticket.
That said, I’ll take the somewhat less Socialist guy from our party over the excessively Socialist guy from their party.
Both make me want to puke.
0bamaRomneyCare is an inexcusable usurpation of Freedom no matter it’s parentage.
Romney was probably my 4-5th choice in the primary. To be honest, I don't remember who I voted for in the primary; I think Cain had dropped out by my turn. I think I voted for Newt. That being said, it's never occurred to me NOT to vote for Romney in November. I don't trust him a whole lot, but at least there's no question whether or not he loves this country. Can't say the same for Obama.
Last I heard, his position was to allow abortion to "save the life of the mom," not "the health of the mom."
Which is a huge difference. I don't personally see how any reasonable person can oppose abortion when the alternative is that the mother will die, and in many such cases the baby will also die. Sometimes very unpleasant decisions must be made. No good option.
Given how many times it's changed, I wonder if Romney knows what his present position is.
Obviously, if "life of the mother" were the law there would suddenly be a massive outbreak of pregnancy situtation requiring the baby to be aborted to save the life of the mother. But that wouldn't make the law wrong, only those who misused it.
My first choice was probably Gingrich, but while he was an effective speaker, he proved unable to organize and run a presidential campaign.
Romney is a good organizer, I’ll give him that. While I feel slightly better about voting for Mitty now than I did at the end of the primaries, I’m still not entirely sold.
It’s pretty clear that if elected he’ll govern as that most dreaded of beasts - a GOP “moderate.” Whether that’s going to get it done, considering the massive problems we face, well I have my doubts.
I was for Romney from the beginning based on the following criteria:
1. Defeating any incumbent president - especially one adored by the MSM - is serious, difficult and expensive business. I viewed Romney as the only experienced candidate with the organizational machinery and fundraising apparatus to go the distance.
2. Romney would play - as we are witnessing - on Blue turf and his “moderate” record would play well in major suburbs in midwestern and mid-Atlantic states.
3. Romney is as clean as a Boy Scout. Absolutely no dirt, which Chicago excels at.
4. Good family package, with Ann Romney a huge asset.
5. When the country elects a Republican president, they seek someone with executive experience. That meant only Romney nor Perry were viable candidates this cycle (of those who threw their hat in the ring). In post WW II America, every GOP president has been a war hero (Esienhower), a governor (Reagan, Bush 43), or a vp (Nixon, Bush 41). When the GOP nominates a senator (Dole, McCain, Goldwater), they lose. The last time the GOP elected a Republican president from the Senate was Warren Harding in 1920 — nearly 100 years ago.
In 2008, I voted for Palin.
In 2012, I’ll vote for Ryan.
It’s the only way I can make peace with voting at all.
McCain sucked badly as a candidate.
Romney sucks badly as an anchorless philosophical weathervane.
When Perry crashed and burned I switched to Newt and I would stick with Newt again if the primary were held all over again.
Having said that, as far as how Mitt is doing right now, I am backing him 100%.
(by katana) No, but he has so far turned out to be a far better general election candidate than I expected. But I did not start out thinking the man had bad character. Just that he was the choice of the Quisling go along to get along party establishment and that this election was and would have been an opportunity to elect a genuine Conservative and Constitutionalist. The primaries are like family squabbles. Hot and fierce within the family but when outsiders put their nose in everybody lines up (or should) to give them a good a** kicking. I cannot think of a single Republican I would not prefer over what's in the White House and running the Federal executive agencies now. Guess that makes me a YDR: Yellow Dog Republican.
The above I think are the sensible responses. I much preferred Palin, but the Left's attack machine may have made it difficult to win with Sarah.
Possibly this is the way it was meant to be. Maybe with the way things are working out, (as Senator Jesse Helms once said after Reagan's election), maybe God will have mercy on the U.S. one more time.
Why replace one income tax with another one? It’s still penalizing success.
Santorum or Newt would be no where. Didn’t even have enough campaign know how to be on all the states primary ballots. Thank goodness for where we are.
I think Romney's a very capable politician though. Much better chances than McCain had, and another plus is that Romney has never been a senator.
I pray that Romney evolves in a way similar to Reagan's evolution.
If Gingrich could/would have made it this far into the campaign without imploding he would be the choice, because even though Romney performed extremely well in the first debate, I think Gingrich would have been even better.
You make it obvious that you really, really hate Romney and his religion.
Will you be voting for Obama?
No.
We could have had true conservative leadership in Cain, Bachmann, Gingrich or Santorum. What we have in Romney is compromise.
And if you watched the debate, it must be apparent that any one of the conservatives would have trounced Obama. I do believe Gingrich would have made him cry or leave the stage.
With Obama, we’re screwed.
With Romney, the bleeding will stop.
With Cain/Bachmann/Gingrich/Santorum we’d have had healing that would have persisted for decades.
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