I do believe that Mitt Romney was the best choice of what we had available to us. His resignation speech was quite inspiring, and I wish the voters could have seen that from him during his campaign. By “suspending” his campaign, I still have hope - for what I don’t know. I don’t quite understand what this meeting was about - to represent the face of conservatism? Is this about another party or keeping hope alive that we can keep McCain from being our nominee?
At this point, I am willing to hang onto any shred of hope that somebody will step up to the plate and give me an alternative to McCain, Clinton or Obama. I feel pretty down right now.
Check out Huck’s CPAC speech. Ig was inspiring - something rare this election season.
There was a virtual media blackout on Romney for the entire year that he was campaigning. No wonder most people only knew the sound bites that the DBM chose to repeat over and over.
So were these:
Governor Mitt Romney's Religious Liberty Address November 6, 2007
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Coulter, Limbaugh, Weyrich, Hannity, Dobson, Tancredo, and all the other rock-solid conservatives who were impressed with Romney were not simply having hallucinations.
Romney IS a very conservative, straight-laced morals-based man.... especially in his private family life and business dealings.
His troubles in 2008 were due to his verbal efforts in 1994 (and a little in 2002) to convince Massachusetts voters that he was not this intolerant white-males-only type of person that many associate with Mormons.
In other words, he made a few pandering statements during a campaign debate (vs Kennedy) in hopes of convincing women voters that he didn't want to keep them 'barefoot and pregnant' .......
He also tried to tell voters that he didn't want to make homosexuality illegal ....and that he was a nice tolerant man.
In 2008, some conservatives are so adamant in their opposition to homosexuality and abortion that they would never in a zillion years consider making such pandering statements.
Romney is a more cerebral type of conservative.... and feels the need to express the fact that he does not hate those who are different.
THAT is why some conservatives hate Romney so bad now.
As for myself, I agree wholeheartedly with Ann Coulter who proclaimed Romney to be a solid conservative... even though she also admitted he made some dumb statements in the past.
But that's just what they were, Coulter said --- 'statements.'
When you analyze his entire record of governance, Coulter added, Romney was quite conservative.