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Why I could never support Mitt Romney!

mikhail said:
Why is everyone assuming they know how Romney would act if he got the nomination?
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It's that we don't know what he will do if gets the nominatons, it's that we have NO IDEA what he will do as president.
 
CriticalThought said:
It doesn't matter who wins the nomination.

All the Republicans need to win is enough outraged voters against Obama to outnumber the supporters of Obama who haven't become disenfranchised.

That is why I strongly suspect Obama might bow out. As soon as the Republican field is set, we might see the window open up for Hillary Clinton to take the reigns.

The Republicans currently don't have anyone who could beat Clinton.
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Seriously? Sorry, but there is no way the Obama bows out. I don't think you have much of a future as a political analyst.
 
Camlon said:
Many of the political establishment don't understand why we won't pick their hand-picked "perfect" candidate Mitt Romney. He has experience in the private sector, he has controlled a liberal state, he is a moderate and inteligent and he can win the election, right?

If that was the whole story. The problem with Mitt Romney is not that he is a moderate. When I disagree, he is mostly to the right of me. The problem is, he is chameleon of politics. He changes his opinions after what benefits him at the moment. Consider all his executive orders that he will do on day 1. There is no way he can do all of them at the same time, and he knows it. Especially during the last debate, it is easy to see he won't keep his promises. He said he will have a trade war with China. That is riddiculus dumb and populist. He knows the consequences of having a trade war with China, but he also knows that in office he can change his opinions again.

If he changed his opinions before, why wouldn't he do it again? How do we know that he won't cater for special interests and screw over the rest of the population? If Ron Paul supporters are scared of crony capitalism, then you should watch out for Mitt Romney.
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yeah do that and we will count you as an Obama voter. same thing
 
Camlon said:
None of the candidates are going to agree on those positions. However, when Herman Cain says he wants to close loopholes, you can trust him.

Can you trust Romney when he says the same?
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Trust is a big issue and Romney really is a slick politician. I don't trust that he will even try to do the things he says he'll do unless it's in his best political interest. I'm not saying he doesn't care about the country, I'm sure he does (especially more than Obama), but he's a liar.

On the flip side, Cain seems to be a straight shooter. He has made some mistakes and he admits when he's wrong. That goes a long way with me. I don't think you can trust a guy who is "never" wrong. Romney has a way of skirting around questions in such a way as to make it seem like he is actually addressing the core point. However, what he does is manipulate and restate the question in such a way that he is now able to answer it. I'll give him this, he is good at what he does, but that's not why we hire a person to be President.
 
J Adams said:
Trust is a big issue and Romney really is a slick politician. I don't trust that he will even try to do the things he says he'll do unless it's in his best political interest. I'm not saying he doesn't care about the country, I'm sure he does (especially more than Obama), but he's a liar.

On the flip side, Cain seems to be a straight shooter. He has made some mistakes and he admits when he's wrong. That goes a long way with me. I don't think you can trust a guy who is "never" wrong. Romney has a way of skirting around questions in such a way as to make it seem like he is actually addressing the core point. However, what he does is manipulate and restate the question in such a way that he is now able to answer it. I'll give him this, he is good at what he does, but that's not why we hire a person to be President.
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To me, what was missed during the debate tonight, with all the focus on the gangbanging of Cain by the other candidates, is that Romney slipped the knife into Perry and took him out of the running, I believe permanently. When Perry called Romney a liar, Romney responded by getting Perry's goat, and caused him to lose his temper. For a minute, I thought punches were going to be thrown. Perry intimidated Ron Paul the same way before, when he grabbed his wrist and stuck his finger in his face, and he must have thought that would work again. It backfired on him in a big way, and it ended up with Perry looking like the schoolyard bully who just got beat up by the skinny kid.

Whatever comes out of this debate, one thing is certain. Perry is now toast. As for Cain, he may gain a little, just because he was able to stay out of the fray.
 
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DarkWizard12 said:
It's that we don't know what he will do if gets the nominatons, it's that we have NO IDEA what he will do as president.
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Do we know what any of them would do, or try to do? We don't know how successful any of them would be at it, either, do we? It's all a crapshoot.

I voted for Lyndon Johnson in my very first ever presidential election as I was afraid Goldwater would get us into a war. How naive I was at age 21! What irony!
 
danarhea said:
To me, what was missed during the debate tonight, with all the focus on the gangbanging of Cain by the other candidates, is that Romney slipped the knife into Perry and took him out of the running, I believe permanently. When Perry called Romney a liar, Romney responded by getting Perry's goat, and caused him to lose his temper. For a minute, I thought punches were going to be thrown. Perry intimidated Ron Paul the same way before, when he grabbed his wrist and stuck his finger in his face, and he must have thought that would work again. It backfired on him in a big way, and it ended up with Perry looking like the schoolyard bully who just got beat up by the skinny kid.

Whatever comes out of this debate, one thing is certain. Perry is now toast. As for Cain, he may gain a little, just because he was able to stay out of the fray.
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Eh, possibly, but I wonder if maybe Romney did some damage to himself. He lowered the discourse a bit to make Perry angry. I don't think he did himself any good by doing that. Also, Cain is starting to create some fear factor with the establishment, so now we are seeing the attacks out of left field and damn nearly anywhere else as well. As for Perry... The Media tends to misread the voters, or becomes presumptive (perhaps wishful) of their intentions. The media, even the conservative media were all but handing Kerry the win for POTUS. The emotion showed by Perry may not have the negative effect that the so called experts are going to predict, as they are attempting to hold him down and beat him like a cowardly pack of would be school yard bullies. Voters, at least true conservative ones may gravitate toward some real show of emotion. I believe many are longing for it. This may show up during the primary elections. Perry may very well not win the nomination, but I am predicting that his supposed weakness will become not so weak come primary time. He will be much more competitive than the media is predicting.
 
no mittens 4 kittens for me.
 
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Mitt Romney is the spoiled son of a millionaire with a skewed sense of entitlement. He doesn't deserve to be President.
 
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