“My problems with Romney are TRUST!!!!”
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That’s really what this boils down to...which candidate do we mistrust more. While I’m supporting Romney, George Bush has taught me never to fully trust a politician.
The bottom line for me is that I would rather put what little trust I have in someone who has been steadily moving right. McCain, for the past decade has been going the other direction.
I believe that if he wins the nomination, the message will be that the conservative movement is either dead or impotent.
If Romney wins, it will only be because conservatives stood up and took back the party. I know others disagree, but that’s how I see it.
Thank you for your kind response, but that last line is kind of what I was getting too. Conservatives can, and are backing McCain, for their own reasons. For you to say, "it will only be because conservatives stood up" is a fallacy. I am a conservative, and I am backing McCain, not because Romney may not be conservative enough (only time will tell that), but because although conservatives may not like what McCain has done in the past, we just might "trust" him more.
No offense to you meant, at all, I respect your faith in Romney, I just hope others will respect my faith in McCain to see us through these tough times.
For me, it's not so much that Romney can't be trusted. Lord knows, there's been plenty of false claims on both sides.
Voters (and I'm talking about the BROAD PUBLIC) have not had sufficient time to get to know him. Had the Republican field not been so candidate rich, this would not have been the case.