I’ve settled on Romney, but I’m not enthusiastic about him. I was a Fred guy too.
For all of McCain’s virtues...military hero, steadfast on the war...I just can’t take his positions on immigration or government meddling.
I’ve been a lukewarm Romney supporter for a while now. My main gripe is that he can be prickly and defensive. This could be a big problem if the Dems run the instantly likeable Obama. However, the Dem candidate is more likely to be Hillary, and in that matchup I think her prickliness will easily swamp Romney’s.
“I’ve settled on Romney, but I’m not enthusiastic about him. I was a Fred guy too.” ~ DesScorp
This should make you feel better:
11/10/2005 Mitt Romney addresses the Federalist Society
http://www2.nationalreview.com/corner/romneyaddress.pdf
Re: The Federalist Society:
“...the Federalist Society, the expanding network of conservative lawyers who over the past quarter-century have played a leading role in reshaping the nation’s judiciary and setting high-level Republican administration policy. ..
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“..One of the group’s founding fathers was Edwin Meese, who would soon become attorney general under President Ronald Reagan. Olson was part of that Justice Department, and so was Giuliani, who served as its third-highest official. The plan was to sow talented conservatives at every level of the federal judiciary and ultimately gain a foothold at the Supreme Court. “That was very much on our minds,” Olson said.
It appears to be working as planned. When he took office in 2001, Bush leaned heavily on Federalists to create a legal power structure to continue the work of seeding the judiciary. Roberts, along with fellow conservatives Alito, Scalia and Thomas, now form a formidable bloc on the Supreme Court.
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Split among GOP camps
But as the Federalists have grown, they haven’t been immune to internal fissures. Federalists have key figures in both the Romney and Thompson campaigns who believe their candidate is a more worthy vessel for their legal philosophies. And they say they haven’t had to make the sort of compromise that Giuliani’s conservative supporters have.
David McIntosh, a former Indiana GOP congressman and gubernatorial candidate, is vice chairman of the Federalist Society, and he’s a domestic policy adviser to Thompson. Douglas Kmiec, another high-ranking official in the Reagan Justice Department, has gone with Romney, whom he calls “authentic.”
More: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/giuliani_burnishes_conservativ.html
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Governor Mitt Romney Announces The Advisory Committee On The Constitution And The Courts
http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Constitution_Courts
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The _real_ McCain record: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjUzOGY0ODA1YzBmNjFhOWE5NWU0OTY5NTZiOGNhOGQ=