“Maybe, just maybe, Romney won’t be that bad.”
OK, here is my best take on Romney and I think it holds water.
Romney fixes things. This is what he has done for most of his working life. Bain Capital was about taking broken companies and fixing them if they could be fixed or dismantling them if they were beyond salvaging. He fixed the Olympics in Salt Lake City and maybe people don’t remember what a mess that was, there was all sorts of corruption and self dealing that had been going on for ages but when a bunch of Mormons got involved it all came out.
Either somebody had an attack of conscience, the Mormons weren’t really corrupt enough to pull it off, or who knows the MSM seized on it as a way of making right wingers look bad. But it was a shambles and he got it straightened out.
Esp. his Bain work may come in usefully. Esp. if he really does “enjoy firing” people who do a bad job.
Our Federal government is broken. Our “social security” programs are headed toward insolvency.
Now, unlike many other freepers I haven’t had my act together for my whole life. Social Security IS my retirement plan. 15% of my lifetime earnings have gone into it, not against my will really, but as was required by law.
I really feel like I’ve done the best I can. I’d like the “system” to be there for me.
I’d like our broken systems to get fixed.
Mitt Romney fixes things. Can he fix the mess we are in now? I don’t know. Will he try? I think he will honestly try, esp. if he goes in with a mandate to do so.
So, maybe that’s what the next 6 months has to be about, getting him a mandate to go all Bain Capital on DC’s asses.
I think it holds water too.