I understand that you believe, Yaelle, but there isn't a scintilla of evidence to support your faith in Romney. Not one. Review his record in office and try to make the case (to yourself) that, based upon that record, and only that record, that he would have done anything different than Obama.
I don't think you can. There isn't anything in his record to support the contention that he would have supported measures and policies that significantly vary from the radical left. Nothing at all.
Now, perhaps he wouldn't have made the same sort of senseless gaffes and unforced errors Obama has. Perhaps. He's a different kind of stupid, but not all that different overall.
Remember he's notorious for his flip-flopping. He would have had us facepalming day and night with that alone. His chronic political correctness would have quickly made him a pawn of the liberal press and left-wing public opinion. We conservatives and patriots would have been long forgotten by Inauguration Day.
The bulls in Congress would have had him eating out of their hands by now, to the immense detriment of the country. Romney would already be repeating scenes like the one where he's signing the bill as Ted Kennedy looks on. He'd be rubber stamping crushing spending bills and failing to do a thing to roll back Obamacare.
He'd have been coerced to push for most of the same idiotic liberal agenda that's strangling the country as we speak, and wouldn't be anywhere close to addressing the bloat in the regulatory agencies or the federal leviathan that's killing America.
I guess he would have made some of us feel better because he'd show up to Veteran's Day celebrations, etc., instead of palming that responsibility off on his VP. Whoopee doo.
And where would the mood of the average Republican voter be right now? Disintegrated into dust, that's what. We would have never seen the landslide election of 2014 if Romney were in office. The base would be too demoralized or tuned out to fight.
I'm sorry, but I don't see that Romney would have been an improvement over Obama at all.
I’m sorry you went to all thst trouble explaining romney, since I agree with it all. However, I actually think even hillary would be better than obama. Even maybe carter. As is.
One day we will all read SHOCKING!!! Books about how the American people elected a true enemy to the Highest office of the land. It won’t shock any FReepers but the low info / busy crowd will blow gaskets. “Holy hell, the birthers were right?!”
I would have voted for anyone over obama last time.
This time it’s conservative or bust. Finally I’m done with R.