[pepsi_junkie]

I started out the election cycle as a Romney supporter. I liked his record of accomplishment in the private sector. He isnt a career politician or a lawyer, he's run a business and made a payroll and done it in a wildly succesful manner. This, to me, means something. And then his turning around the winter Olympics fiasco also was compelling to me. And I appreciate his being a moral family man. I'm no mormon but I dont worry that he'll try to impose his faith on us so that isnt an issue for me.

However, I've watched him in the debates and I've just been underwhelmed. His strategy is clear: whatever they ask just say "I'd do what Ronald Reagan would do, I'll be optimistic and cheerful". I liked that in the first debate, even the second, but at this point I want more! I want Romney to do something to differentiate himself. And I fear that I'm losing patience, looking at other candidates. Am I alone?

[Reaganesque]

Well, for as long as I’ve known him (31 yrs.), he is an optimistic and cheerful person. That’s just him, it’s not an act. As to differentiating himself, how do you mean? Personality wise or policy wise?

[TheLion]

You are probably mostly alone. Romney is impressive period!

[CheyennePress]

I’m a firm Romney supporter, but frankly, I think it’s about time all of the Republicans kicked Reagan out of the debates.

Romney absolutely sounds his best when he is speaking about what he believes and about his own ideas. He’s the only candidate I’ve seen give a concise, practical, and 100% on the nose run-down of why we need tort reform. He’s done the same with the need for a cut in corporate taxation.

Romney needs to bring up his own successes and lay off the Reagan schpiel. It blanches his own incitefulness.

And that’s not unique to him, either, but it’s particulary true of him since many of his policies align with Reagan’s. It’s just best he sold them on his own, finessed them on his own, and stood by them without the presense of a man long gone (but not forgotten).