That was a mistake he made, but no one can deny he would have made a president we could be proud of
He would have been a very good placeholder, someone that could be nudged into the right direction by Congress. It would have been imperative that we gave him a very conservative leaning congress.
Regardless he would have been better than the US hating muslim we have currently.
Campaigning against fellow citizens (groups, not individuals) is not presidential and until Clinton, was something candidates didn’t do. You never attack the citizens you are supposed to represent and Romney tried not to do this. When you become president, you represent the entire country not just those that agree with you. That was the POV until Clinton, who polarized this country beyond repair IMO. They wrote the book that Rove used and later was used by Obama’s campaign with such effectiveness.
He would have at least been competent and an experienced manager. And an American in his heart.
Agreed!
I thought Romney was horrible and he definitely spent more of his time trying to destroy other GOPers than attacking Obama. However, once he was the candidate, we all had the responsibility to support him, but many people seem to have kept on with their fantasy perfect candidate, hoping against hope that Romney would vanish from the face of the earth and “their” candidate would sweep in.
Even if I don’t like the candidate himself, I keep in mind the fact that he brings with him a host of appointments and advisers, some of whom may actually be good and any of whom would be better than any Dem. So the important thing is to get the party into office, regardless of the shortcomings of a particular candidate.
I went and worked the polls and did other things, even though I didn’t like Romney, because I thought the important thing was to get Obama out and to get the GOP in. I doubt that Romney would have made a great president or even a particularly good one, but he or anybody would have been better than Obama or any Dem.