Wait a minute. Willard voted for Tsongas?
They don’t, and if he was running for President of 1994, he’d have a problem. (BTW, of all the democrats in 1992, Tsongas was the best one. Meanwhile, if it was the 1992 election this year, the entire body of FR would be telling us we should stay home and let Bill Clinton win rather than voting for that “RINO sellout” George Bush.
I suppose some here would like him to LIE about his positions back in the the time of Reagan/Bush. I appreciate his honesty in admitting that he was an independent. Of course, during the time of Reagan/Bush he was a private citizen, not a public official, and had little impact on any elections for any office.
I would also note that Paul Tsongas was a PRIMARY candidate, who LOST in the primary. And Bush was pretty much going to win the republican nomination. So for Romney the private citizen to vote in the Democratic primary and vote for Tsongas isn’t as damning as some people make it out. Tsongas was, as I said, one of the better democrats.
That list included Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton, Eugene McCarthy, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin and Lyndon LaRouche.
But all this is really trivial stuff. The point isn’t what Mitt Romney thought of himself in 1994, it’s whether the policies he was running on were conservative, moderate, or liberal. And in most cases, he was on the conservative side, the major exceptions being gays, abortion, and guns. On other issues (fiscal responsibility, tax cuts, welfare reform, death penalty for example) he was on the conservative side.
“And in most cases, he was on the conservative side, the major exceptions being gays, abortion, and guns. “
Well, that says it all.
Wait a minute. Willard voted for Tsongas?
I consider those to be pretty major issues for which a Republican candidate needs to be "right".