“Anyone who wishes to find a reason not to vote for Romney can find one. But the reasons to vote for him are far more compelling. He has successfully managed a real business with other people’s money and some of his own. He has balanced budgets. He successfully led a turnaround situation with the Olympics. And he has spent more of his career outside government than inside.”
That’s all good and well, but Cain has plenty of the same private sector experience and track record of turning around companies, WITHOUT the baggage of being a phony who changes positions as often as changing socks.
Of course I’ll hold my nose and vote Romney in the general over Obama, but I wont be very happy about it if that’s our choice. This guy just can’t be trusted. He put in a state health care plan that MANDATED the state’s citizens to buy health insurance. There’s nothing at all conservative about that.
On abortion, just look on YouTube for his 2002 Mass Gov debate hosted by Tim Russert. The guy repeatedly insists that he’s for “a woman’s right to choose” and denies ever asking for the endorsement of a pro-life group. He even brings in his mother as a pioneer because she was pro-choice in 1970, when that was a very unpopular position. In this video, he becomes very indignant that his opponent DARE question his commitment to a “woman’s right to choose.” Sounded very much the same as when he re-buffed Perry’s charges in the debate the other night.
Then, only 5 years later in 2007, Romney has a sudden change of heart and becomes pro-life-coincidentally right after leaving office in Mass and just in time to run for POTUS. This alone is bad enough, then there are his statements on global warming, making Mass a “sanctuary state” but now suddenly he’s a strong opponent of amnesty. The list goes on and on. The other night, he was given a prime opportunity to call Obama a socialist-which I think is pretty obvious and a fairly benign term for him, and he wouldn’t take it. Instead, he dances around the issue.
Sorry-this guy just can’t be trusted. If Romney is elected, you wont have any idea who you are getting until after he is sworn in. With the future of our republic hanging in the balance, can we really afford to roll the dice with a guy like that?
I’m not a Romney guy, so I need no convincing. I am a little surprised Cain endorsed him, but it shows an ability to compartmentalize that I think is very good.
Cain has potential VP written all over him. Let’s hope he makes a good showing to position himself, even if it is VP for Romney.