The stuff Romney is supposedly a RINO on doesn’t bother me a twit. If he’s tough on this and is serious about reducing government waste and spending and strengthening the military to fight what he calls the “global jihadists,” and he promises to appoint conservative justices, he’s all right in my book. Plus, he’s clearly modeling “family values” which is supposed to be one of the core principles of the Republican party.
The fact that he is slick, smart, and calculating is okay by me, too. It’s about time Republicans dump the unsophisticated hicks with constipated communication skills. Stick to your guns on this, Mitt, and you have my vote.
“The stuff Romney is supposedly a RINO on doesn’t bother me a twit. If he’s tough on this and is serious about reducing government waste and spending and strengthening the military to fight what he calls the “global jihadists,” and he promises to appoint conservative justices, he’s all right in my book. Plus, he’s clearly modeling “family values” which is supposed to be one of the core principles of the Republican party.
The fact that he is slick, smart, and calculating is okay by me, too. It’s about time Republicans dump the unsophisticated hicks with constipated communication skills. Stick to your guns on this, Mitt, and you have my vote.”
My sentiments, exactly. I love how some people are quick to call Romney a RINO without considering how difficult it would be to be a conservative governing the most liberal state in the nation because technically, any bill or measure that you agree to sign is drafted by extremely liberal lawmakers. If you aren’t willing to at least make a few concessions here and there to the opposition, nothing would ever get done. But it ends up being a double-edged sword in Romney’s case because people automatically assume that he’s for {{insert liberal position here}} and at a national level (where the legislature would be balanced a lot closer to his own ideology), he wouldn’t govern as a conservative when in fact, I would argue he’d finally be able to govern closer to his conservative ideology than he was allowed in Massachusetts.
I, like you, am leaning more and more towards Romney because of his successful leadership skills and his strong stances on immigration and the war on terror. Truth be told, he’s really the only candidate I’ve heard who seems to be knowledgeable about the entire dynamics of the Middle East. He’s proven that he can get things done and that’s definitely what Washington needs.
And as you mentioned, we might finally have a Republican candidate who can sell the ideas to the American people without sounding like a total Gomer.