The attacks on Romney are becoming silly.
If I was a liberal politician who saw the light, I wouldn’t see any benefit in becoming conservative. Todays GOP voters don’t like people who change, they like people who’ve consistently stayed liberal...
Romney (rather you believed him or not was another issue) said he was wrong on the issues.
McCain still believes his liberal positions are right.
I think you’ve almost got it right...
The GOP voters aren’t voting for McCain because he’s consistently liberal. They’re voting for him because he’s *consistent*. This is a point I made yesterday. The voters simply know exactly what they’re getting with McCain, whether they agree with him on 100% of the issues or not.
In Romney’s case, it seems they’re not so sure exactly what he is, which goes back to his position shifts in the recent past.
In short, I think the voters are saying they’d rather take a proven moderate like McCain rather than someone who could turn out to be even further to the left if he goes back to his old views on certain issues.
Yeah, and further...with todays Freepers standards, they never would have accepted Reagan either.
Only big difference is Reagan switched in ‘63 was it?..He didn’t win until ‘80...
Romney probably making his run too soon...as he said, we’re at war. He felt he had to do it. And he could see McCain for the Manchurian that he is!