Thank you betty, I know of your conservstive principles and dedication after these many years.
Your word is more than good enough for me, along with others (including family on my wife’s side) who lived there.
I will use the word “moderate” in the future by virtue of your recommendation.
I hope others are reasing and listening and will understand how dire it is to remove Obama from office, and that Romney will be orders of magnitude better than the horror of another 4 years of the Kenyan Marxist.
I hope so too, dear Jeff!
If I may return to an earlier point I raised, the ethos of firearms licensing in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and how it all changed under Gov. Romney.
Formerly, the granting of firearms licenses was left up to the sole discretion of the local police chief. Now, my family lived in a town whose police chief couldn't think of a single legitimate reason to grant firearms licenses to any private citizen; and who tried to make the renewal of any already-issued license as difficult as possible.
My Father's experience testifies to this. To renew back in that day, Dad had to schedule a personal interview with the police chief, who would then ditch my Dad at the appointed time. The old "runaround game" here.
Dad used to joke, "So I learned to go down there, and bring a stack of books with me, and announce to the Chief's secretary that I was happy as a clam to sit and wait as long as it took for the next convenient time for the Chief to see me: 'I have a lot of catching up to do with my reading, you see. And I don't mind doing it in the Chief's office.'"
Sooner or later, the Chief would appear; and finding no legal reason to deny my Dad's application for renewal, he would grant it.
All this changed during the Romney Administration: Massachusetts is now on a "shall issue" basis — if you can pass the background check, the State "shall issue" a firearms license.
To me, that was a huge step forward in recognition of what the Second Amendment requires. That it happened in the socialist swamp of Massachusetts is a virtual miracle to me....
And it happened under Governor Romney.
My takeaway from all this: Obama wants to disarm private citizens (see the putative "endgame" of Operation Fast and Furious). Romney does not.
Why would anybody claim that there's not a dime's worth of difference between these two men? That both are equally "Left Progressive?"
Left Progressives don't want citizens exercising their RKBA. Period.
Evidently, Romney has no problem with it whatsoever, in principle.