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Okay. I will accept your point.
However, it may come as a surprise to you, but he is not my hero and I don't have an irrational affection for him.
I don't think I have ever initiated a promotional post about him. I think he has some positives concerning the economy. I never wanted him for president. I wanted him for vice president. When Thompson fell through, he was just an acceptable fall back, preferable compared to Huckabee or McCain.
Almost all my post are in defense of him concerning criticism that I think involve exaggeration and distortion. We don't have a perfect candidate, not even Palin, as good as she is. So we have to go with the ones that best fit our goals.

Very gracious and nicely stated answer, broncobilly. I am proud to be in company with FReepers like you.

Unlike you, I think Romney is very far away from fitting our goals in any way, shape, or form. Indeed, I am convinced that he would operate counter to them. I have investigated enough about his record to conclude that exaggeration and distortion are not needed to reject him ...

... unlike the exaggeration and distortion of Edit35 and Rameumptom when they falsely claim, repeatedly, that Romney was "supported" and/or "endorsed" by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Reagan. They exaggerate and distort lukewarm praise from these guys, praise no stronger or weaker than that offered by them for other of the primary candidates, and deliberately mislead fellow FReepers into thinking the intent of such as Limbaugh, Reagan, and even Levin (Levin actually did legitimately and plainly without enthusiasm endorse Romney at the last minute as the least of the three Primary evils of McCain, Huck, and Romney) was to "endorse" Romney as the Future Face, the Hope of the party. In fact, Levin, Limbaugh, and Reagan make it pretty clear, once you actually see what they've said about Romney in the full context, that they regarded Romney as the least lousy in a piss-poor lot -- hardly the future for 2012.

Again, if you're looking for exaggeration and distortion, you'll find it more than plentiful among Romney's strongest supporters here.

Almost all my post are in defense of (Romney) concerning criticism that I think involve exaggeration and distortion. We don't have a perfect candidate, not even Palin, as good as she is. So we have to go with the ones that best fit our goals.

So true.

In retrospect, the thing that made me a Romney supporter was the virulent "exaggeration and distortion" of his record, his faith, and personna by a wing of the FR conservatives who offered little else but attack-filled invectives.

I have no special affinity to Romney, but during the primaries he was ... and still is... the one viable Republican who defends and promotes those conservative positions necessary to keep America strong and prosperous.

Oh, the bashers will dwell on a mis-placed statement here and there... or even on a not-perfect health car plan Romney signed into law in Massachusetts.

But for Heavens sake, bashing bashing gets the GOP no where... not unless accompanied by proposals or solutions.... which many here on FR fail to offer.