Mitt Romney needs to, truly, become a very small government conservative, and then, among many other pro-conservative actions, Mitt needs to, truly, overturn everything involved with, both, The New Deal and The Great Society! Then, I’ll be very impressed with Mitt Romney.
“Then, I’ll be very impressed with Mitt Romney.”
Given all the task at hand for Romney to take on, Repealing Obamacare, fixing Medicare (per Ryan’s plan), Repealing Dodd/Frank bill, fixing SS, energy independence, military rebuild, Fed and Supreme Court judicial appointments, Balanced Budget Amendment, Auditing Fed Reserve etc...
Romney will have in his hands, the opportunities to catapult himself up to the higher echelons of presidential greatness.
That said, We will have to see. He wasn’t my first choice or any choice because of his RINO’isms. But current fiscal and international circumstances that are so dire now may very well push Romney well to the conservative side of governance.
Case in point, the first debate. Romney came out and thoroughly energized the conservative base.
Second point, the electorate has already in primaries elected to run more conservative senators and congressmen. I think of Ted Cruz, from 2010 Mike Lee. Just the booting of Sen. Richard Lugar was stunning.
Given that these more conservative leaders are elected, Congress will push way more to the conservative side.
Sorry, that's not likely. The effect of Romney shifting his positions throughout the day depending on the crowd is that everyone in the room thinks he's secretly on their side and is just saying what he needs to get elected. To reduce your disappointment set your expectations for Romney to be the second coming of Nixon, not Reagan.