I am a Tea Party conservative, and I support Mitt Romney for president.
Gov. Romney is far more conservative than prevailing public opinion implies. He was a Republican governor from one of the most “blue” states in the United States. Since he couldn’t possibly get elected as a conservative Republican, he campaigned as a liberal Republican, but he governed as a conservative in Massachusetts.
He assumed governorship when the state was in the red. He cut taxes multiple times and balanced the budget every year he was governor, and he left office with surplus. He campaigned as pro-choice but he worked hard to reduce abortions. He received endorsement from the state’s largest pro-life group for his pro-life policies.
Currently, the U.S. Senate is 60 percent Democrat; the U.S. House is about 60 percent Republican. Look how dysfunctional our federal government is. Romney had to work with 85 percent Democrat state legislators and was able to advance a conservative agenda.
It’s easy to be a conservative politician if you are representing conservative constituents like Newt Gingrich did when he represented Cobb County, the most conservative county in Georgia. It’s another thing when you are representing a huge liberal base.
That is one of the reasons I don’t blame Rick Santorum for not supporting federal right to work legislation when he was a U.S. senator. He said he would sign national right to work legislation as president, and I believe him.
No matter how great your ideas are, if you don’t get elected, you can’t implement any of those great ideas. I think Mitt Romney will govern as a conservative president because the country is center-right, whereas the Massachusetts electorate is far left of the center.
I believe in the “Buckley Rule,” named for William F. Buckley: Vote for the most conservative candidate who can win. Mitt Romney is the most conservative candidate who can win the general election.
YeSun Wiltse
Evans
Well, if ever there was a tribute to a Chamelion this is it. What a laughing stock this makes of our two party system. Run on lies? That's what the letter writer is encouraging his/her candidate to do. Amazing what this says about the mindset of the Republican party.
The general election could be fairly cheap to produce for Democrats this year. That is if the Republicans will rent them the TV ads they've already made.
I hate to say it but ra is right....they won't have to spend $$ on adds....just replay the adds the Reps have used on each other...
Maybe the letter writer is right....maybe he can work with both parties ...hope so cause it looks as though he will be the ONE!
A voting population that will embrace the likes of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hanitty and Glenn Beck deserve this marginalization of their views on American leadership as expressed in their dismal candidates.
If the economy continues to improve or give the illusion of improving, Barak Obama will win a second term no matter who the Republican candidate is. It is unusual for an incumbent president to lose an election. It only happens when the economy is down.
The hard core Democrats and Republicans will always vote for their party's candidates. The independent voters chose Obama four years ago. I don't think Sen. Santorum will be able to pull many of them over to the Republican side. Romney is the only Republican candidate that has a reasonable chance.
If all the Republicans want to do is make a statement, they can nominate any of their candidates and then cry about the mainstream media after the election.
I will probably vote for Romney because I believe that he is best poised to beat Obama, which is my primary objective. However, I wish Romney would quit espousing that he balanced the Mass state budget. There is a state law which requires a balanced budget. This is like Gov Deal indicating that he balanced Ga.'s state budget. Big whoops, since a balanced budget is also a state law.
robaroo..I agree. I intend to vote for Romney, I like him. I like the fact that he said this country has been good to him and now it is time for him to try to give something back. He has the right idea. I will take him at his word. We MUST make our one vote count. Voting on " the principle" won't get us anyplace.
allhans writes; "Voting on " the principle" won't get us anyplace."
Well at the very least the man is as honest as many Republicans seem to be in this election cycle. Don't let those pesky ol' principles get in your way for God's sake. Say, I wonder just how honest that is?
And for you sore reporters to the authorities out there, I'm not calling allhans a liar by any means at all. I'm simply commenting on his own comment.
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