Mitt Romney was weaned on politics, he was born into a politically aggressive, liberal, anti-conservative family in which dad was a national figure, ending in a liberal presidential run, and mother was a 1970 liberal Senate candidate.
Romney has always known and lived his liberal convictions, and his anti-conservative drive for revenge against the conservatives of the GOP, the Reagan/Palin/teaparty types who he shuns and insults even as he gains control of their party today.
Romney was anti-Reagan, he left the GOP and from 1989 to 1993 only gave money to, and fund raised for democrat candidates, he voted for Paul Tsongas in 1992, he was giving to and fund raising for Planned Parenthood in 1994.
His father had run against Reagan for the Presidency in 1968, Mitt Romney and his father formally protested the victory of the conservatives at the 1964 GOP convention in which Goldwater was nominated and Reagan gave his famous speech. Romney was anti-conservative in every way during the first 59 years of his life.
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense,” Romney said. “They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
“I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.”
Do you think that Mitt was just merely confused a little about his core beliefs during the the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the 2000s, until 2005 when he started his run for President, the second such run in a row for his family?
Similarly, look at how some of those who had behaved just as you describe the Romneys, moved to the right after Reagan won a convincing victory.
The Romneys were & are successful businessmen. Their focus has been from that perspective. They were not effectively challenged, as Obama is now challenging Romney, from a Leftist threat. Obama's attacks will partially wake Romney up to the fact that the parameters of his world are under an ideological attack--not a foreign threat from Russia, but a threat from corrupt ideology here at home.
My point is not predicting how he will respond. My point is that we need to do our level best to push him in our direction. The article discusses how we should proceed to do so.
Failing to address this opportunity/reality is to concede the future to the hard core Marxists around the demagogue in office. That is folly in the extreme.
William Flax
I don't care. There is a marxist kenyan in the White House and I want him out. You can twist yourself into a pretzel enabling him if you want but understand there are only two electable candidates. One of them will be in the WH next year. You seem to prefer the kenyan. Most conservatives are willing to roll the dice with Romney. So be it.