Just finished reading this Wiki entry (Romney's mention of his mother prompted my curiosity). A biography of Mitt Romney's mother Lenore: Lenore Romney -- worth absorbing.
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As was I; I think he could be a great President and amy very comfortable voting a straight Republican ticket. I have no reservation whatsoever. My favorite candidates were Perry and Gingrich but I'm not sure they could have won a general election. I think Romney can. He is an effective communicator and I like his choice of Paul Ryan for VP. If he also brings back John Bolton I will be even more pleased.
Romney is trying to appear to be what he thinks people want him to be. He is a man without any core principles at all.
It's been a hard road but the both of us finally arrived as Romney supporters.
We battled very hard in the primaries, many times on different sides, some time on the same side, but never on Romney's side.
The primary is over and it is what it is and we can accept reality or become what many on FR have become, reality deniers.
A vote for any third party candidate or withholding your vote only helps obama.
It is simple logic, but you can witness, many FReepers that are usually logical, twist themselves into liberal pretzel logic spouters to defend their Romney hatred and their "reasons" for not voting for Romney.
I'm going to work, donate, call, poll watch and vote for Ryan/Romney 2012 and hopefully celebrate their victory in November. Is it Romney/Ryan or Ryan/Romney, whatever?
I like it when Mitt reminded people about Carter and placed BO in the same category. Home run.
He MIGHT be pandering to the conservatives a bit, but have his core values changed - not likely. Still even a socialist country club Republican like Willard is much better that the dedicated Marxist Kenyan currently befouling the white house. If Robert Mugabe had a son he would be like 0bama
I have always seen Romney as the more conservative version of Bill Clinton (without the sexual issues).
He is a political animal who knows how to morph into what is required to win.
That means he is not a hardcore ideologue, which many on both sides want from their nominee.
But the reason I have some faith in Romney is based on what he did when nobody was looking. He raised 5 fine sons and did not spoil them with wealth. He helped those in need around him. He showed compassion by personally sacrificing, not just making a donation.
The character of man named Romney is solid.
Maybe he is, but we'll have to wait and see. And we won't really know until he wins and begins to govern. But it is very common for presidential candidates from conservative states to become more liberal in national politics, and for candidates from liberal states to become more conservative.
I'd say he will become more conservative, but how much more we'll only know if he becomes president.
It’s an election. Get your hopes up at your own risk.
I liked his speech and as for the question, I feel he will be as conservative as we want him to be but close to half of the country won’t be voting for him so that’s a strong pull to the left and we can’t let off the pedal while guiding him right. I would never hire a guy that claimed to lower the sea levels and buy my gas but we have people that believe that and will rehire this guy so they can get their imaginary free stuff. They will have to be dealt with.
What I hope people understand is that this man is a consultant and you hire a consultant to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. He will go about solving problems in a very methodical fashion, hiring the best people, having them identify the problems, providing them with the means to create solutions and supporting them while they implement the solutions.
We have to make sure he hires the right people, they provide the right solutions to the right problems and that he is out front supporting them.
Big party over here...
Dunno that he is being “more” conservative.
It is possible that he simply becomes whatever the job requires. Given his success in business, that would make sense. Being a Republican Presidential Candidate (as opposed to being the governor of Massachusetts) requires him to be more conservative.
Hopefully, being a Republican President of the United States, will also require him to govern conservatively...
At least he understands he can’t run on “I’m not Obama.” He is trying to give voters something believe in.
I am sure conservative. More than I even realized until this past year. I get the NEED to DEFEAT OBAMA. But I am not insulting my intelligence by ignoring the reality before us. To Me Romney is NOT Conservative in any way , shape or form. He is dashes of Bush mixed with dashes of McCain and a slice of Christie. Paul Ryan is tons more conservative, but nowhere near Sarah Palin or Herman Cain.
We were snookered by the rehabilitation of George Bush.
Not this time.
and with Romney we are starting out with worst to begin with
folks around here just have to have their cult of personality
and then begin the purges of dissenters
given JR’s views on Romney I don’t see him tossing the bolt at Romney criticizing here
We shall see
sorry to harpies out there...gonna be sorta dull eh?
no cool people cliques or high school halls to monitor with glee
At first read, I thought you said you just finished writing this Wiki entry. I see it was last updated this morning - maybe after his mention of her in his speech. Thanks for the link.
The Rules Change stuff kinda tipped their hand.
I am willing to be surprised.
I’d like to see a little more movment in the polls, personally.....that’s just me, though. I’ll be happy when the RCP average puts him up 3 (like Rasmussen) and the state by state begins to shift.