I don't think Romney is a good guy, nor do I care. I ran a business back in the day with about 50 employees give or take. Aside from having the ability to at least be civil and have people willing to be in the same room as him or her my primary criteria for affirming a hire was his verified resume and his own ideas of what he could do for ME and my business. I hired people so I could make more money and not to give someone a job.
Romney has the resume and proved work experience to handle the job we need done today. As important as the social aspects of his resume are to you and others such as his positions on homosexuality, health care (Massachusetts), the Boy Scouts etc these are not priority issues at this time. The economy and jobs are the top prority along with controlling spending. My 1st or 2nd choice was not Romney but he is who we have and in any case he is light years better then Obama.
In WW2 Britain asked Churchill to jump back in the saddle and run the war. IMO he was the best leader I have ever seen or read about and he was correct chosen as the right man at the right time. After the war he was unceremoniously dumped as PM because priorities for the Nation had changed.
I have no problem doing the same with Romney or anyone else. Now we need a fiscally adept team to straighten out the mess. If they succeed we can concentrate on pushing Romney more and further right. If that fail then work at replacing him in 2016.
You say you look at actions rather than words. Good idea so look at Romney's history and that should show you he will bring proved success to the job. As for him being weak? I think you may have missed his performance during the primary. He can get nasty with the best of them when he believes he must.
Perhaps as you say either Romney or Obama are no better then “a warm pile of dog sh*t” but at least our wpods knows something about how an economy operates.
I appreciate your efforts to defend Romney, but I’m not impressed. He is a moderate who was crammed down down our throats by an arrogant and cynical RNC who has shifted so far to the left that they are now Democrat Lite.
Here is the defining issue about Romney for me. He created the model that zero used to shove ZeroCare on us. zero didn’t find the program under a turnip plant, he got it from Romney who, despite waht he “says”, has also “said” that he has no plans to repeal ZeroCare if he is elected! Why should he? This is the child of his baby we are talking about.
So, we can go back and forth about Romney and Ryan from now to November. I don’t like Romney, I don’t think he is the best choice that conservatives could have gotten and I think Ryan doesn’t bring that much to the ticket. In case you missed it, when Romney was asked on a Sunday talking head program about Ryan’s budget and the Medicare issue, Romney emphatically stated that they would be using HIS budget plan!
So, if Ryan has all this budget experience that Romney plans to ignore, what does he bring to the ticket that I should get so excited about??
As it stands now, I will vote in November. I just won’t vote for either of the two teams we will have to choose from for POTUS and VPOTUS.
Before you give me that tired argument about it being a vote FOR Obama, it isn’t. It doesn’t count FOR either one.
So, help JimRob conserve some of his bandwidth. You aren’t going to change my mind.