Mitt is in full desperation mode, and his campaign is in free-fall. * After dissing 47% of the country, Mitt now wants to represent the 100%. * After saying that the 1st thing he'd do in office is repeal Obamacare, he now says he wants to keep portions of it. * At Clinton's own Global Initiative Summit, Mitt compliments the former president that pretty much roasted all the Republicans at the DNC weeks earlier. * He now needs to spray tan himself to ingratiate himself to the Latinos. * Paul Ryan, his own VP, now refers to Mitt as "the Stench." I don't want to be quite as harsh as Mr. Ryan. Mitt has been slightly better than some of his predecessors. For example, while guys like Mitt shoot first and aim later, there are also guys like Cheney shoot first and um... wow :grin: So question: Will Mitt be a Democrat by November?
The funny thing is Mitt Romney doesn't even represent 52 of the 53% he thinks he's running for, let alone the other 47%.
A good friend of mine, a Harvard graduate that was living in Boston when Romney was governor, can't wait to vote against him in November. What's ironic is that I remember having conversations with him about Mitt when I came up for a visit. He liked him very much, and really liked the healthcare reform, which reduced his insurance bill and, more importantly for him, covered pre-existing conditions. The guy shakes his head when talking about Romney running away from his record. Mitt is a political schizophrenic. He comes across as dishonest because he is. Too strange.
This is my biggest problem with Romney is that as governor he was a pragmatic moderate but I have no idea really what he is now or what he might be as President.
I think he think the tea party extreme position will help him win this election, apparently it won't.
He sure has, in some respects. Didn't raise taxes on anyone. Also passed Romneycare. What can be more Republican than adopting a Republican idea?
Small point, but Romney didn't implement or create gay marriage in Massachusetts. It was legalized by a MA Supreme Court ruling in 2004.
He basically did what he had to do to win the Republican nomination: frame himself as a conservative. Of course, the truth is as governor he was much more of a moderate than a conservative and pretty much everyone knows that, although many choose to just ignore it (the Republican base). He sold out his record as the governor of Massachusetts to become the nominee, so he finds himself arguing both for and against things such as Romneycare. I would be curious to see what a Romney administration would be like (in an alternate universe of course). Would he really lower taxes as drastically as he says and close loopholes that primarily affect the middle class? Would he actually gut federal spending at drastic levels like he claims? Would we instantly be at war with Iran? All of these policies would be very unpopular, yet all are championed as Republican positions that Romney claims to support. Until the Republican party realizes that they need a moderate candidate that actually runs as a moderate to attract independent voters, they will continue to struggle in presidential elections.
I think Ted Kennedy summed it up when he ran against Romney. “Now he’s for family leave. Now he looks like he’s for minimum wage. Now he’s for education reform,” the senator said. “If we give him two more weeks then he may even vote for me, because those are the things that I am for.”
you are correct. i have said it on here before but the democrats are about to win the fifth out of six popular elections. that means twenty out of the last twenty four years of this country the majority of the people have wanted a democrat for president. and if the economy improves like i expect it to you can add four more years onto that when mrs clinton gets elected.
He accepted the extremists to win the republican nomination. He already said he would do a 180 once he's nominated. Remember the etch-a-sketch comment? I've said this before, NO moderate republican will win the presidential nomination in post-Bush era. Look at McCain of 2000 and look at McCain of 2008. McCain lost the nomination and caved in to tea party ideals 8 years later. Same with Romney. Significant difference between 2008 Romney and 2012 Romney.
