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CJ, it depends on which Romney you are talking about. The one who came up with Romney care, pretty socially liberal and worked with Democrats to get things done or the one after he did his 180 degree turn in order to run for president on the Republican ticket. The thing with Romney, even among his own party members, they weren't sure which one they would get. So working with Democrats is pretty irrelevant after Romney did his 180.
On the economy, who knows. He never really laid anything out as to a plan. In fact he never laid out a vision for the next 4 years to give the voters a reason to vote for him. You the economy is in such and such a state under Obama, it would have been better under Romney. But Romney never said what he would to to compare the two with. I pointed a lot of this out when we were on politico.
Hi Pero - what you say is all fair comment and impossible to dispute. My point was simply that Obama was a known commodity as President - how much worse could Romney possibly be and the potential for being much better was there. People took a leap of faith voting for Obama in 2008 knowing he had no real background that would indicate he'd bring any competence to the position - at least Romney had a record, a history, that could inform the voter.
It's all irrelevant now, however, but it's interesting to speculate.