I am a Republican who, being a West Coaster, had never heard of Mitt Romney until he put his bid in for the presidency about a year ago. On paper I liked the guy: good businessman and knows what is good for business (and jobs), apparently a superb executive manager, able to work with Massachusetts lefties, conservative socially but no gnashing his teeth about it, etc.

His record seemed great.

Then here he came and not only did he look and sound phony, he flipped and flopped and did everything he could to run away from his very moderate sensible, business-like approach to governance to become some Uber-Conservative.

I didn't believe a word the guy said. I quickly realized he was a Republican version of Hillary. The man is pure ambition and is willing to say and do anything to win.

No thanks. Goodbye to all that. I'm tired with the poll-tested empty suits. I may disagree with nearly every policy he has, but I'm votin' for Obama!

"who, being a West Coaster, had never heard of Mitt Romney until he put his bid in for the presidency about a year ago"

Slept through the Salt Lake City Olympics, did we?

Which event did Mitt compete in?

Free Flip-Flopping Ice dancing and the down hill phoney phree style.

He won a gold, too.

And by the way, Mitt's business success was as a Leveraged Buyout (LBO) wizz. LBO's are when the acquieing entity puts up maybe 10% of the value of the comapny to be acquired and then uses the assets of the acquired company as collateral to borrow the balance of the purchase price.

The result is usally but not always humungus profits for the LBO guys (Mitt) and radical job losses for the company acquired.

It may not be pretty, but it sure is profitable.

My favorite Mittism was when he said during one of the debates that one of his great regrets in life was "not serving in the military." And he had the audacity to say it while sitting next to John McCain!

First of all being a war hero is not bombing women and children from 30,000 feet they crying like a bitch when he is shot down. Neither is shooting a man running away a war hero either... aka Kerry. So until you get someone who has slugged it out in the trenches don't talk to me about war heros.

Second Rommy made his money in the private sector. McCain made his during the Savings and Loan scandle that cost the USA hunderds of billions. And if Rommy had tried something like that in the private sector he would still be in prison. But because McCain is in Congress its okay to rob the US citizen blind.

Face it no matter who we pick now, the American people are the big loser.

mar1976cus:

First of all being a war hero is not bombing women and children from 30,000 feet they crying like a bitch when he is shot down. Neither is shooting a man running away a war hero either... aka Kerry. So until you get someone who has slugged it out in the trenches don't talk to me about war heros.

Please detail for me your combat experience. It's obvious that you and your ilk have the final say on who did and did not serve their country. I'm interested to see how I would rate on your scale of who "actually is" a war hero or veteran. I'm waiting...

Still waiting...

thewolf05827:

Slept through the Salt Lake City Olympics, did we?

Yes.

Bearded One,

I don't necessarily believe that this is a bad thing. These guys buy injured businesses that are going down the tubes, ones which are crashing and burning and which will lose any and all jobs for their employees.

The buyout guys will save and restructure these businesses - yes, at enormous profits to themselves (good for them, they took enormous risk) - and will save the company so that at least some jobs are then saved.

A lot of business is creative destruction.

Mar1976cus, I can tell you're one of those "true" conservatives, the ones who have saluted Bush for 7 years, perhaps the least conservative president we've had since LBJ.

I can tell because you're now demonizing McCain, an honorable man who not only risked his life on those flights, but after having been imprisoned and tortured nearly every day for five years, demanded that other men get sent home before him. If that's not a true war hero, I don't know what is.

With all of my misgivings for Romney, I could certainly respect supporting his candidacy. I find it repulsive and childish this piling on of McCain however, by those who call themselves "true conservatives," who have been told that Bush 2 somehow represents conservatism, and McCain does not.

Conservatism must spend a long time in the wilderness to rediscover what conservative actually means. Posts like your's prove it.

GWB, is a liberal.... Or did you fall asleep for the past 20 years? Bush spent like a drunk sailor as Texas governer and he did the same as president. I liked Gore in 2000, but he lost not only the election but his mind. If the dimocraps want to win they have to put someone in there who has some respect for America. So far they haven't.

As for McCain, how soon we forget Keating 5, as well as numerous stupid bills he pushed forward to give amnesty to illegal aliens, hinder our intelligence efforts and cripple the economy. But then you probally already know about those. Or will hear about it when the witch throws Obama down for the count and focus' on John boy.

Romney, had to slide to the liberal side in order to get elected as governer. However the liberal controlled media hated the things he did, hence they spent their time attacking him till he lost.

So who you gonna vote for now, Marcus? Do a right in for Paul? God knows he's the only thing really conservative out there right now.

I'll probally sit this one out. Ron Paul, proposed much of the legislation that he later voted against. It gave him that appearance of standing against something. In the meantime he has ear marked millions for his buddies. Hence I would not vote for him. The only conservative that was running was Duncan Hunter. And we all know how much media coverage he recieved.