Thank you for your reply. Romney is of less concern to me in this discussion than Carter simply because Carter had four years as POTUS and Romney didn’t. However, I agree with you one hundred percent that Romney was and is a liberal to his core, and that it took great intestinal fortitude, coupled with a dread of what Obama could do with four more years, to vote for Mitt.
[Btw, I am all in for Trump, voted for him in the primary and, if God gives me life, will VERY enthusiastically vote for him in the General. :) ]
Now, GGpa, please let me ask you another question. (Bear with me, if you will; it takes a bit of setup.)
Suppose you came across the following in the forum:
“Trump will not reduce the size of government. He may try to bend it to his purposes but that’s as far as he will get. The idea that Trump will bring in some sort of revolution is a fanatasy.”
Now, bearing in mind that the government bureaucracy is a monstrous, gargantuan, vast, inefficient, corrupt, bloated, money-sucking, economy-killing nightmare, and that such waste, fraud and abusive is anathema to good businessmen/corporate execs, let’s suppose you respond that the poster knows nothing either about business or good execs.
To make a long story shorter, the discussion comes to focus on Carter. The claim is made that since he was a businessman and Trump is a businessman, and Carter didn’t reduce the size of government, neither will Trump.
Now here is my question. Isn’t it reasonable to posit that Carter and Trump are polar opposites? So to what purpose would a *conservative* use Carter’s example to demonstrate that Trump will leave the government bureaucracy just as massive, unwieldy, bloated, inefficient and corrupt as he found it? Can you honestly picture any conservative doing that in good faith?
abusive = abuse
(Must have been auto correct.)
The 'penny for your thoughts' answer is Carter was a Leftist Democrat, chosen by David Rockefeller. Neither Carter nor David R had any wish to see anything other than a massive, unwieldy, bloated, inefficient, corrupt gov't bureaucracy.
Trump built his success on coming in under budget and ahead of schedule, time after time. He has said he will balance the budget and reduce/eliminate the debt and rebuild the military without raising taxes. To do all that requires taking the bloat, inefficiencies, corruption out of gov't.
I believe Trump. And I think a Gingrich as Chief of Staff will help him accomplish what he says he will do.