Last Thursday evening, WABC’s John Batchelor had a guest co-host named Mary Kissel, who works for the Wall Street Journal. In one of the segments, they interviewed a journalist named McKay Coppins about a recent article of his. You can listen to the interview here beginning at 19:00 (about half-way through the podcast).
Mr. Coppins tried his best to defend what he was saying in the article but Batchelor & Kissel kept battering him with questions, eventually shattering to pieces his defense of Romney. Towards the end, Batchelor asks a most important question: “Doesn’t this suggest to us that Mr. Romney would do better in another party?”
Mitt Romney might be a nice guy, might look like a President, and absolutely does have a good track record in business. But he’s too much of a flimsy fellow when it comes to any core set of values and a concrete vision. Sometimes compromising is a good thing but often it’s absolutely the wrong thing to do.
America is in trouble. A whole lot of trouble. The next Republican American president simply cannot compromise when it comes to fixing the economy and restoring a large semblance of fiscal sanity to government spending. For if it’s more of the same then the whirlpool of financial ruin that the nation is cascading down into will only pull it down in a stronger fashion. That’s not a good thing for anyone in the world except America’s enemies.
You don’t need a rino when you try to clean up the mess the obamarxist has left behind
Cain/Bachman would sound nice to me.
not gonna happen.
politishuns over the globe get into and stay in office with spending programs favouring their constituents.
therefore not gonna happen.
Not a big fan of Mitt. Would take him in a second over obama if forced to choose though.
He’s the easy front runner in New hampshire but he has a glass jaw which is displayed in the column above. There are still a few candidates yet to declare and we are still a very long way from august 2012.
That said, the primary system that always begins in NH (and iowa – that state’s system favours cranks too much and thus doesn’t carry the gravitas of NH) so the most senior and persistent candidate has a definite advantage resulting in duds like McCain from time to time.
What I like about romney
Good head for business
Gets the economy
A decent person, in all the senses of that word
Was a governor, this is really important, as Obama is demonstrating
What worries about romney
Squishy on his plans
Seeks compromise no matter what, to get along (he should read the masthead of Kate’s blog)
But as Gord said, between him and Obama there is no contest. But I am no Palin or ron paul fan and I think i would vote for either of them over Obama right now as well.
So a governor/exgovernor with a good economic record and firm convictions/willingness to stand firm while carrying the day…..hmmmm who could I be thinking of????
Romney is America’s Harper.
Seriously – “the guy has no core set of values”
He’s a Mormon ferchrissake. Romney may be guilty of many things, but having no values is a baseless charge.
Many Mormons are fine, good people. Glenn Beck is a Mormon. However many Mormons are slimy reprobates (Harry Reid). Which is Mitt?
It’s Mitt’s OTHER religion that makes him unfit for the office of President. Mitt belongs to the Church of Global Climate Change. He believes in Cap-and-tax and ethanol subsidies. We all know how those people want to shove their religion down other peoples throats.
As long as there’s no ‘October surprise’ video of him/her diddling kids, ANY Republican can and will beat Oblahblah in 2012, including Romney. Everybody American who does NOT live in NYC, Chicagoland and LA/SF knows this.
Rick Perry (Gov. of Texas) has a great chance to win it all, and Michelle Bachman would make a terrific VP partner … but to repeat, ANY Republican will beat Obama handilly.
Don’t be too quick in putting a fork in the “O”, he may not be done yet. If he can wangle landed status for illegals and opens up Cuba he will secure the Spanish-American vote and coupled with the African-American vote and the Welfare tribe he could be a shoo-in in 2012. Just saying he’s a long way from toast right now.
Don’t even imagine for a second that Obama is finished; he’s a malicious and vicious person, and when trapped, as he is, if he feels he’s not winning – he’ll be a tyrant.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that Obama will not do…in order to win. You see, there is nothing to Obama; he has no ‘personhood’; he has no ‘self’. He’s empty; his very existence is based on his feeling that he controls others. That’s all there is to him; the ‘fullness’ he gets when he feels he is in control of others.
He was, psychologically, relatively harmless when in a small domain, as a community organizer. But put him in a key position, as President (and he keeps reminding us that ‘I’m the President)..and the expansion of the people he needs to feel that he controls…is enormous. He becomes aloof, distant; he can’t engage with everyone. [That’s the reason for the few press conferences and the ones he holds, are filled with his lies and manipulations.]
And he becomes even more ‘virtual’ with his empty promises, his pathological lies, his emotional manipulation, threats and scenarios of apocalypse if he doesn’t get his way.
Obama and his Gang will become more vicious, using race (that’s one of his constants), class divisions, ethnic divisions…and..lies, lies and emotional threats. That’s Obama.
As for the GOP – my ‘best team’ would be Perry/Rubio. I like Pawlenty as well for President but Obama would run over him like a steamroller.
Democrats… Republicans… a good cop/bad cop spiel with maybe a dime worth of difference between them.
Both parties are leeches on privately held wealth.
Both step on their tongues trying to appease מְדִינַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
America can wait, we must first prop up our benevolent masters from Tel Aviv, for They Are Kosher Unto YHVH.
Romney would make a great VP instead of Biden.
I have no idea who to vote for. It does not matter. When in doubt, Vote For Puppet.
@ Antenor 9:05AM – If Obama does any/all of those things he will lose even bigger! You are perceptive to use the phrase “welfare TRIBE”, because it is WHITE tribalism that will defeat him in 2012.
His 2008 election has resulted in ‘white guilt’ now being TOTALLY expunged. He now has to run on his record, which is inescapably dismal, which is OBVIOUS to all Americans … ONLY the dyed in the wool 15% ~ 20% who are deeply committed leftists / liberals remain in denial, but EVERYONE else IN AMERICA can’t wait to toss him.
You’ll never get this if your only exposure to Americans is via the media, but BEING here (= in Raleigh, NC, with lots of biz travel around the rest of the country) you can clearly see from random contacts with total strangers that he is the MOST unpopular president of my lifetime, more loathed than even Jimmy Carter! When total strangers waiting in check-out lines, or waiting to be seated at restaurants, or going through airport ‘security’ lines, or waiting in dentist offices, etc. make random anti-Obama comments, then you KNOW he’s in DEEP trouble … but the media (based only in NYC, LA & Chicago) NEVER encounters that, and likely wouldn’t report it if they did.
Bet the house on Obama LOSING.
Yes, Mittenz has a horrendous record and no one mentioned OBAMA/ROMNEYCARE!!!!!! Are you kidding me, the worst piece of crap in the world and not a mention??!!! It’s evil and we won’t have it, so you better buck up and vote for a decent, honest person that knows her stuff and it’s NOT Bachmann or Cain who worked for the FED! There’s only one person that’s going to get this job and it’s Gov Palin! Her record has set the standard and nothing else will do. So, if you don’t know her record then go see Undefeated or go to conservatives4palin.com and read about it, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH THE MACHINES THAT DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY!!!!!!
Governor Christie please!
Pat myself on the Back!
Watching the GOP debate I came away with the impression Mitt Romney is a pleaser. He, like PM Paul Martin and Albert Gore, learned how to act with powerful people at his fathers knee.
When the old man was not around they all are looking for someone to say “nice boy”.
Alex @ 7:30-Go back to bed, skip school today.
Still do not know why thinking people are so uptight about Sarah Palin: Folksy sells in the U.S.A. I guess its just a girly man thing and “how dare that woman do what she is doing and still be running for political office” female kind of thingie.
Talk about the success of the Journolist smear effort. Cheers
vote for the most sensible GOP atheist
Can anyone tell me why any Republican in his/her right mind would want to be president when the economy implodes? That would be like relieving Obie of a belt of grenades with the pins pulled.
First of all he’s not conservative he’s a pinko tory and second of all he’s as stupid as Obama.
Davers6 at 9:32AM:
I hope your impressions truly reflect the majority of the country, but I’m worried. You live in a conservative region, and your apparent involvement in business brings you into contact with a disproportionate number of people whose beliefs are likely to resemble your own. Even those apparently “random contacts with total strangers” may not be as random as you imagine, especially if you somehow give off conservative vibes via dress and comments of your own that inadvertently invite a sympathetic response.
A huge number of Americans now depend on government programs in one way or another, and Democrats will have no trouble mobilizing them for short-term gain. As I said, I hope your right, but I’m worried.
“ANY Republican can and will beat Oblahblah in 2012,”
Not bloody likely! In addition to ET’s comments, don’t forget Hollywood and the MSM are going to go into overdrive to make sure their guy stays in office.
Like true liberals everywhere,they might be pissed off at him, but they’ll vote for him over the evil Republicans every time.
Romney is a Mormon -in-name-only,as someone said above,he’s indoctrinated in the Church of AGW.
The Republicans have an almost impossible task in defeating the President who is the preferred choice of so many powerful lobby groups,and the groundwork has to be laid NOW,in the debacle surrounding QE. The Republican House must force Obama’s hand and leave HIM holding the bag.
A great deal in 2012 depends on John Boehner and the House right now,and it’s questionable if they have the courage to do the right thing,and call Obama’s bluff.
Force him to cut taxes,cut spending,and freeze the debt ceiling where it is. Sometime before Aug.2,I expect the House Republicans will capitulate, and bring in a compromise that satisfies no one.
I had always thought that Romney looked too slick.
There is something about him that has always bothered me and I still don’t know what it is.
My sixth sense is working…and it’s not good for the voter.
For starters the Republicans/Independants must abandon the insanity of allowing the DNC/media the power to chose their candidates and ultimately their nominees.
Romney is a Rhino—done!
Bachman currently is exposed as migraine/stress prone—-tain’t right, tain’t wrong, just is…—regrettably done!
Pawlently lacks exposure—-too little too late—done!
Perry lacks exposure but is coming on—maybe!
Christy…weight problems and an abrassive Rhino—-done!
Palin has experience, standards, and grit….tested under un precedented fire—-Best!
Cain lacks exposure, has attracted to media vitriol (Dems don’t fear him) but—maybe!
As far as Dem/Obama election conduct…they have already crossed the line…blocking the mailing of overseas ballots and excluding their inclusion…Black Panther..Gun Walker…expect everything including political violence…I suspect/expect the 2012 election will be decided by bullets and not ballots….The Chicago machine is desperate….it’s the Chicago way.
I agree with Robert that Romney’s not the guy. He’s mentally strong enough, but he’s a split-the-difference compromiser, and a politician in the most pejorative sense of the word — “slick”, as Helen put it. The thing he’s got going for him is that he may be the most electable because of his MOR approach. Bachman, if this report is anything close to being true (and it sure seems that it is) is waay too unstable to be allowed anywhere near the presidency; pills, stress-related hospitalizations, etc., these things should disqualify her from serious consideration. If an aide’s departure stresses her out so badly that she has to be taken into care, how would she handle the social unrest caused by massive spending cuts, let alone a potential military showdown in the South China Sea, or the proverbial 3 am phone call?
Sarah Palin is definitely strong enough to do the right thing, and to take the heat, but I have a gut feeling that she’s not electable in a general election, and if there was ever an election where the Republicans *need* to take the presidency from the Democrats it’s this one. Maybe in 2016.
If he decides to run, Texas Gov. Rick Perry might be the right guy. He’s a rock-ribbed conservative, and as a former Air Force pilot he’s obviously got cojones.
America needs an historic overhaul if it’s to avoid going over the cliff. It’s going to be a very, very rough ride for whoever is elected, so dedication, mental toughness and strength of character is going to be all-important.
Mitt Rohmney is more like John Tory than our Prime Minister Steve.
Rohmney’s the media party’s pick for us so he’s poison.
“Romney”
Is Obama Our Gorbachev?
This Sultan Knish piece speaks eloquently to the Mitt Romney threat! Steyn has made a similar observation in the past. As I have often observed, there’s no real conservative constituency to speak of.
“What most fail to understand is that the left’s political victories are a product of its cultural victories. By the time that the left scores a political victory, it has long since secured the cultural battlefield, and even its opponents in the political and media classes lack a secure vision of their own. They are no longer conservatives, rather they are conservative liberals. The liberal beliefs of yesterday have become the conservative beliefs of tomorrow. The front line gets moved further and further away in the name of a greater appeal. There are victories from year to year, but look from the vantage point of generations, and the conservative side has racked up a profound and comprehensive defeat.”
One more thing:
The SNOB Krauthammer recently opined, from this mountain top, that Bachmann can’t win, and evoked the Buckley Rule: We mustn’t vote for the most conservative, but the conservative most likely to win. This GUARANTEES liberal co-option of conservatism as per my Sultan Knish link above.
Romney would be the 2012 McCain: a disaster. Maobama could skewer him with the implementation of Romneycare: how could Romney flog OcommieCare, when he implemented his own version in Massachusetts? He also reeks of flip/flop and compromise, which is exactly what the US does NOT need to fight OMarxist and save their country.
Christie? Nice try. He’s hip-deep in receiving obamacare payments, weak on immigration, AGW and pro-hamasque at Ground Zero. He talks tough to teachers at town hall meetings, but as for anything else – forget him. Another RINO.
I agree with ET: Rubio is an excellent choice, although Rick Perry has a bit of ‘splainin’ to do regarding immigration issues. Herman Cain also has some great credentials (actually having GENERATED wealth, as opposed to the Chief Socialist in Charge, who’s never contributed a dime to the GDP), and Michele Bachmann is first-rate. Of course, because she’s a conservative, has morals, not to mention cojones, liberals (especially women) tend to hate her. Any of these three would be a fantastic alternative to the disaster that is POTUS.
And you’ve not seen tyranny yet, until this particular rat gets cornered.
mhb23re
I’d pretty much given up on the crop of Republican contenders until Perry came along.
I need to see more from Perry to see if he offers some hope.
Anyone who thinks 0bama is down and out is seriously overconfident. The combination of naked hatred for conservatism in the media, the growing number of state-dependents, and the extent to which Democrats are willing to corrupt the political process mean that 0bama will be very hard to remove, no matter how incompetent he has shown himself to be.
And if he loses in a reasonably close election, it might get extremely ugly.
“The SNOB Krauthammer recently opined, from this mountain top, that Bachmann can’t win, and evoked the Buckley Rule: We mustn’t vote for the most conservative, but the conservative most likely to win. This GUARANTEES liberal co-option of conservatism…” — Me No Dhimmi (12:54)
I take your point but, realistically speaking, if the Republican presidential nominee is non-electable, how does that help conservatism? Put differently, if the Republicans pick someone with impeccable conservative credentials who’s unelectable, and Obama gets reelected as a direct consequence, who wins? Who really gets “co-opted” in such a scenario, and by whom?
Electability is always – has to be – a primary consideration. Unless, of course, one decides that it’s more important to lose on one’s principles than it is to keep the White House out of the hands of a guy who seems hell-bent on destroying America and everything it stands for.
Don’t even imagine for a second that Obama is finished; he’s a malicious and vicious person, and when trapped, as he is, if he feels he’s not winning – he’ll be a tyrant.
He’ll be a tyrant??? He is a tyrant, ET.
He’s a marxist thug, as I’ve argued over and over again.
And he doesn’t just have bad thoughts (“psychological socialist”).
He’s a marxist thug, no different from Castro and Chavez who also aren’t intellectuals with well thought out solutions for “the people”.
Huckabee on Fox a few nights ago warning his fellow Republicansto fold on the debt ceiling blockade
to avoid crap falling on them. It basically boiled down to “cowardice is good politics” so wait for Obama
to self destruct rather than have Republicans stand for something.
McCain threw the last election. The RHINOs and their wealthy east and west coast friends are busy
trying to find a similar clone for this go round.
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I remember Romney’s performance in the debates in 2008, there is no substance.
The US needs a true leader and visionary and the Republicans need to find a spine and a message. This is not the time to worry about playing nice and how your party stays in power, it’s about sink or swim.
Continue playing the same game and the USA will sink, pick a leader that could care less about staying in power but will do everything in their power to save the Country and the good people of the Country will follow.
As for Bachmann, Cain, Palin and Perry….I am partial to Sarah, her fortitude and conviction are a rare breed indeed, but regardless, any of those 4 might be the answer I just don’t see the value in writing any of them off or picking a winner until the official race and debates begin.
“Alex @ 7:30-Go back to bed, skip school today.”
I wish! Would have been a lot better than running around wearing kevlar plates all day. It’s friggin’ hot out!
Thanks for your reasoned response, though. I can always depend on SDA for insightful political commentary. Cheers!
Me No Dhimmi:
Sultan Knish is correct. Culture almost always determines politics. The only exception I can think of is Ataturk’s remodeling of Turkey, and even that seems to be unraveling. The total rewiring of our own culture is the reason for my pessimism regarding 2012. Forget about a conservative victory. A RINO victory (more probable, but by no means certain) will be a mere bump in the road.
Incidentally, I don’t subscribe to the view that the rewiring of our culture along liberal lines is some kind of conspiracy. Three factors drive liberal ascendancy:
(1) Economic specialization, which undermines personal independence. (Very few of us are independent farmers. Instead, we rely on supermarkets and big box stores for the things we need. If those went empty, few of us could do very much about it. That dependence, though seldom articulated, influences the way people view government.)
2) Mechanization, which renders male strength and courage less important economically. This leads to…
(3) Women’s suffrage, which grants political power to people predisposed to unconditional nurturing and the avoidance of conflict.
A fourth factor in the rise of the welfare state has always been with us. Namely…
(4) Old-fashioned greed. The possibility of getting someone else to pay for what we want is irresistible, and politicians willing to indulge that appetite have always been available. However, it is only recently that the cornucopia produced by capitalism has made that approach seem almost practical.
While it is true that the media and the so-called “artistic community” support the statist trend, I don’t think they do so as part of a conscious conspiracy. Rather, I think their views have something to do with the way people of above-average IQ often relate to their peers early in life. At the very least, such people tend to develop interests that are not always well paid in a capitalist economy. People in that position often search for a patron, and what patron has deeper pockets than the state?
I agree with the rejection of Romney; he’s a RINO, he’s into AGW, and his own version of Obamacare..and he doesn’t have the confrontational nature to deal with the malicious vicious nature of Obama.
Obama, it must be acknowledged, has no principles, no morals, no qualms about what he says or does. He’s a pathological liar, he loves, and I mean the word, to foment dissension, to set one people against another people, to watch ‘fighting in the streets’. He gets his kicks out of this because it makes him feel powerful. And he needs that constant sense of Power over others.
So, what is needed is someone who can and will confront Obama and the Obama Gang. To me, that’s Perry..with a VP of Rubio. Add in, as sidekicks in the team: Allen West, Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Herman Cain…and Sarah Palin. The ‘team’ has to be people who will act to support Perry/Rubio by ALSO confronting the malicious attacks that will be forthcoming from Obama and the Obama Gang.
Obama has only one interest. One. Himself and his power over others. It actually makes him feel more powerful as America and Americans become weaker…
Ah, c’mon ET. Marxist thug!!
Kidding aside, I’m 101% in agreement with every word above at 3:59. The label’s not important.
RSP, great post! And I certainly agree that it’s not a conspiracy. And sadly, you’re right: artists (my daughter is a professional classical musician living in NYC) and persons of high IQ seem to lean liberal. And most of the great entrepreneurs, it seems. Gates, Buffet, Jobs, etc.
One of a dozen or so images I will ponder on my death-bed is same daughter’s face when I told her there was no social security trust fund, per se. No lockbox.
A long-ago friend, a far left enviro-liberal, once told me that Buckley was the only “intelligent” conservative he could cite. That was back in the early 80s. My erstwhile friend was a bit of a snob and I told him I understood Buckley’s appeal: that phony voice/accent and body language. I never warmed to the cat, though I fully appreciate his contribution to the LOST conservative cause.
EBD: Point taken. BUT: we mustn’t presume 18 months beforehand to know who’s “electable”. That’s static thinking. People have been known to grow, even soar in the great pursuit.
Minor example: I always thought Michele Bachmann may be too thin-skinned. But the other day, she made a great comeback to someone who asked her if she was offended by a Repub’s reference to her sexiness. She replied, “Heh, I’m 55, I’ve had 5 children … that’s good news!”.
Bachmann’s my main man. She recently said that Obamacare needs to be repealed, and quickly. I don’t sense the same level of urgency in other contenders. She said that if not soon repealed it would metastasize. Bingo!
Like Albertas Conservative the American Republicans have been infiltrated for years by Red Babies.
*Excellent* post, RSP (3:50).
RSP … good for you. Seriously a great summation of how things work.
Now … how the hell does electing a Mitt Romney help anyone?
There is a big problem with the GOP and it goes back to the days when they thought they were home free with Reagan … this is what Palin recognizes and is fighting to change.
The fact that Romney still exists as a political entity is proof of how difficult that change is to execute.
RSP – good post, but I quibble about the suggestion that more power to women = more notions of nurturing and less conflict. I must have a different view of women than you do, but I find they can be just as vicious and confrontational – and yes, physically, as men.
You ignore the presumably deep emotion of men to protect and nurture their families.
So- why is statism and socialism emerging yet again? I think your points about the urbanization of the population and the mechanization of production, which both remove the individual from agential power, are good.
But statism and socialism have been in existence long, long before urbanization and mechanization; indeed, they were the basic mode since the development of agriculture; they are, after all, essentially tribalism. Tribalism privileges the group, rejects the individual, rejects reason, science, progress..and focuses on stability and compliance.
Individualism, a focus on reason, on direct interaction with the material world – and democracy and capitalism – these all developed from the 14th-15th c. It brought enormous material, scientific and medical benefits to the world.
I think that we humans will always swing between the two – and statism has strong emotional appeal because it puts all responsibility somewhere else. But the fact is, socialism and statism can’t support large populations; they can only support tribal sizes (6 figures not 7 figures). So the world can’t go this way.
It’s interesting that the ’emerging capitalist nations’, such as China and India, are moving away from their socialism and beginning to empower the individual. As we, here, disempower the individual with statist regulations, HRCs and so on.
Romney would just be the second coming of McCain, leaving conservatives again with the painful choice of slow death with a RINO vs. quick death with a raving leftist Obama.
RSP
Some interesting ideas to chew on.
I will note at this time that I saw very, very few Obama bumper stickers in California two weeks ago. San Francisco no less.
And yes, Romney is a RINO. No point electing a RINO.
ET:
There are indeed women who can be confrontational when required, and there are women who are not at all nurturing. I had in mind averages rather than the exceptions that are present in any distribution.
Yes, most men care for their families, but their caring takes the form of going out into the world and earning an income for the family. They don’t do diapers very well, and they have much less tolerance for crap from their kids, especially from their sons. Their “love”, in other words, is more conditional.
As for “statism” and “socialism” predating urbanization, I think that is simply untrue. The earliest example of a state behaving in a “socialistic” manner, at least the earliest that I can think of, is Imperial Rome. Bread-and-circus socialism was a totally urban operation, one that evolved to maintain large numbers of people displaced from the countryside by slave labor. A somewhat different case is provided by late Medieval Florence, with its highly restrictive guilds, its state-supplied dowry for girls, and its public debt financed by bonds sold to investors. The Florentine government may not have been socialistic, but it was vigorous, intrusive and, in its way, stifling. Generally, the more interdependent the people, the more active the government. Socialism and intrusive government don’t appeal much to people who feel in control of their own welfare. It is also more difficult to impose such a government on people who are spread out over a wide, un-urbanized area.
There has not been a Republican president in at least the last 50 years that has shown any fiscal sanity.
“smart money is on Obama” – me
MND
you quoted much of what I’ve been not to successfully trying to say about the problem with the Right. You might recall that I’ve mentioned that Jay-Z and Beyonce performed at the big POTUS party in 2008 and I loathed to think what “entertainment” McCain might have had. I even said “today, even I’m a Dem” because of it.
Until the social conservatives in the GOP are thrown under the bus, they are doomed to wallow in the same murk the Reform/CA did until they threw the social conservatives under the bus.
Before I get roasted by SDAs church group, understand this: the GOP doesn’t have a monopoly on social conservatives! I’d wager half of the social conservatives vote DEM if you include all ethnicities. The only social conservatives that vote GOP are WHITE ones. Once you understand this… you can see the social conservatives are the sacrifice that must be made IF the GOP is to remain viable in the future. The Left has been too successful in defining the GOP for so long, that many fiscal conservatives wouldn’t dream of voting GOP for the reasons I’ve outlined.
Another option is to punt the old folks(dead weight) as they are the true RINOs of the GOP. These folks are just as entitled to their entitlements as anyone, and are a loadstone that slows conservatism to almost a halt in America.
Mitt Romney = White(r) Obama. That simple.
Until the social conservatives in the GOP are thrown under the bus, they are doomed to wallow in the same murk the Reform/CA did until they threw the social conservatives under the bus.
You win an internet cookie!
Easy on the Romney hate already. Remember, Romney was the conservative favorite in 2008 McCain was the RINO. If Romney is now the RINO wing of the Republican party, they are in good shape.
As for Romneycare, he was elected to governor of Massachusetts! They wanted government health care and he gave it to them. That’s what politicians are supposed to do in a democracy.
He says that Romneycare was a local solution that is wrong for the nation as a whole…and that has been his position since day 1 on the national scene.
My take: The top of the ticket should be a governor with a record of success: Romney, Christie or Perry (Pawlenty hasn’t yet shown the spark.) Exciting candidates without the right resume belong on the bottom of the ticket: welcome Bachmann, Palin & Cain. Their clearest path to the presidency is through the office of VP.