Similarly, Romney has considerable value to the GOP and conservatives in spite of his record and any defects in his heart of heart views and principles. Romney could help raise large sums for the GOP. He could endorse and energetically campaign for the eventual GOP nominee, helping to reconcile doubters to a Ted Cruz nomination, for example.
It should also be recalled that even well-established political figures sometimes change their views. In Reagan's 1976 campaign, he made an effort to appeal to moderates by announcing Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate. Many conservatives grumbled at the choice and the episode was quickly forgotten after Reagan's loss of his campaign for the nomination.
The experience was transformative though for Schweiker. For the first time, he came into close association with conservatives and found that he shared more of their principles than he realized. Schweiker's votes in the Senate shifted sharply Right and he eventually served as HHS Secretary after Reagan's election to the Presidency in 1980.
Might Romney's political views have similarly shifted to the Right due to the 2012 campaign? I suspect that must be so to some degree, with Romney getting enough of a political education in 2012 to learn what most of us in this forum already know.
Romney could help raise large sums for the GOP
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he could...
but he wont...
He didn’t in 2008 and he didn’t in 2012...
Which Conservative did Romney raise money for in 2008 ???
Which Conservative did Romney raise money for in 2012 ???
Let me tell you about 2012 and Romney and his opportunity to raise money if he had wanted to...
Because of Romney’s marching orders the GOP deserted a Conservative and left his campaign to die of lack of funds...
Willard had the GOP cut off Todd Akin...
After all, Christie is likely to remember and return such favors as are rendered in his current distress.
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How hypocritical do you aspire too ???
Christie’s current distress ???
What about the distress of Todd Akin that Willard caused and then didn’t help him ???
Yes Willard caused much of it...
Willard made a mountain out of a mole hill...
he made it all about him..
Willard is a narcissistic egotist and everything has to be about him...
he and Obama are joined at the hip in their its all about ME...
Willard cried like a wee girlie man that he is “Oooo this is going to hurt ME ME ME”
and the liberal Willard fed Conservative Todd Akin to the lions..
wheres your pity for Akin ???
Wheres your “If I were a prominent Republican, I too would say nice things about Akin for the sake of supporting him and damning the Democrats who are after his scalp”
not that Willard is a prominent Republican...
Romney has considerable value to the GOP and conservatives in spite of his record and any defects in his heart of heart views and principles.
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Name them...
Might Romney’s political views have similarly shifted to the Right due to the 2012 campaign?
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they might but why would he ??? Why should he ???
though it is easy to give lip service to certain political views, don’t you ever watch for political actions ???
a record speaks of what a guy does not how he thinks...
and if you are talking about that propaganda film that Willard made about himself called Mitt that was shot over 6 long years and there would be 100s of feet of film left on the cutting room floor that didn’t make your boy Willard shine like a new penny...
apparently the profanity from Willard for instance was cut out...
anything that exposed his mocking of Conservatives and Conservative values was destroyed...
all you saw was a feel good Disney production the caricature of a matinee idol and not a real life portrait of a man..
the movie was designed to be a campaign ad for 2016, not an exposure of Willard’s true “heart of heart views and principles.”