I consider taking a chance with a candidate that conventional wisdom says isn’t likely to be the nominee at this stage is less risky, than having a candidate that we don’t know what he’ll do if he wins.

The country is in dire straights, it can’t survive another Obama term, except through a miracle. Problem is I think Obama has done so much damage to this country, that we can’t simply win in November, we have to do a hard reverse course to undo the damage Obama has done. Otherwise this country is still going to be in dire straights if it doesn’t collapse anyways due to the damage.

I really don’t see much to lose by continuing to support Gingrich, cause I think trusting that Romney will actually stick to Conservatism and fight to undo the damage is more of a gamble.

I don’t think we can survive 4 years of the status quo, cause in case you haven’t noticed the situation we’re in now would be the status quo.

In order to answer the question you posed, the way you worded it, I would have to accept some of the presumptions you made as being factually accurate, when that isn’t the case.

It’s not my problem you used assumptions that happen to be false.

Have you ever taken a look at state issued bonds? It’s where you loan a state government money, they throw that loaned money into the equation and that balances the books.

In the case of Romney’s Governorship, he was getting a lot of money for Romneycare from the Federal Government. He was raising taxes left and right to the point Democrats started objecting.

The money he got at the Federal level to fund his little project known as Romneycare was part of why he could claim that he left the state with a surplus, even though when you look at reality, he actually left a bunch of debt that the next Governor would have to deal with, cause the Federal funding would no longer be there.

That answer the question?

You can have debt and balance your books.

You get a loan for a house, however you do have a balanced checkbook.

In this case a lot of state governments may have debt, but that is because people bought Bonds.

There are people out there that consider buying bonds from State Governments and the Federal Government to be safe fallback investments.

While I don’t have access to MA’s budget sheets, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what this “deficit” you are referring to was.

Fact is, Massachusetts by law requires they run a balanced budget. That is a fact. So it wouldn’t be an accomplishment on Romney’s part, because he was required to balance the books. Fact is though he left the next governor many unfunded liabilities because the Federal Grants stopped coming for Romneycare.

I am a Conservative, I’m not exactly thrilled with the idea of a Romney actually getting the nomination (there is still a chance he won’t btw), mbecker and a few others are supposedly now Romney supporters.

How does it benefit Romney for them to start insulting and bullying the people that Romney will need the support of in the General Election in order to win. Such tactics are more apt to get people to stay home.

It doesn’t benefit Romney one bit.

Case and point.

Instead of building up Romney, they resort to ridiculing people that Romney will need votes from in order to win.