Thanks for your positive comments. I largely agree with what you said except that in many cases, we have been separated by our ordering of priorities as well as by mistrust of either candidate.
I'm not so sure of that.
I was always disturbed by Romney not being a staunch Second Amendment person, although I understood the AWB he signed helped loosen restrictions for gun owners from the law already on the MA books and that the NRA supported the new AWB law there.
He was the first politician who gave the first credible stand against the legalization pathway for illegals, IMO. If we do that, he said, it will just encourage more illegals to come, it will not solve the problem. That was the first time since the liberal judiciary deep sixed our Prop 187 that I have felt a glimmer of hope that maybe we might not have lost already the war of the reconquista.
Huckabee was never for deportation and denying illegals a legalization pathway. His Christianity (like Bush's) prevented him from making the hard choice. And my Christianity would make me feel their pain, but frankly I think if they stayed in their own country's they might change them for the better, and if we don't stop the swamping of our culture before the immigrants are assimilated and understand why it is a great country, then this country and the hope and prosperity it gives to so many will be lost.
I decided Romney had the best chance to stop McCain, and so his recent ProLife stand was better than McCain's wanting to federally fund embryonic cell research.
I thought Romney had the best sense about how to put some more drive in the economy and how to attack the energy crunch which is grinding us to a halt.
I thought Huckabee was pandering and couldn't be trusted in the end. You thought Romney was pandering and couldn't be trusted in the end.
Maybe both of them were pandering.
Maybe both of them were sincere.
We shall have to check back next year and see.