In my opinion, JimRob's unilateral truce on Romney is tantamount to a surrender. For this reason: Romney got a significant concession, a ceasefire, while giving up exactly NOTHING to get it. NO promises of conservative appointments, nothing on the conservative agenda, etc.
Result: what FReepers think doesn't matter to Romney, he can give them nothing and they will get what he wants. Attacks on Obama, implicit support for the GOP ticket, all the ticket.
BTW I am not disagreeing with Jim's ethics, principles, ideals or direction, I simply disagree on negotiating strategy.
Oh and by the way I hate Obama AND Romney and all they represent with the heat of a thousand burning suns.
If there is a top level concern with Mitt, surpassing all other concerns, it would be this:
Does the LDS expect Mitt to keep on getting their personal okay for what he does in the White House?
And based on what? News from the White House? Or personal briefings?
At some point national security issues are going to come into play. It isn’t nearly so much about Mitt leaning to LDS philosophy (if there is such a thing — it seems to me like a melange of garbage), as about his possibly having to ask “mother may I” to live LDS philosophers/prophets who can NOT keep secrets themselves.
THAT could not be tolerated from a President Mitt, though to be fair it is likely Obama is the puppet of puppeteers we don’t even know about (Mitt’s would have a known address in Salt Lake City).