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What I like about Romney….

By: texastaxpayer (Diary)  |  April 10th, 2012 at 10:47 PM  | 

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This is not an easy post for me to write and actually one I had hoped to avoid. Any regular reader of Red State knows that I am vehemently anti-Obomney (Obama and Romney) primarily because I see so many similarities in the two. I will spare you the detailed reasoning for that statement as it is counterproductive to my purpose here. However with Rick Santorum leaving the race and my personal favorite (of whose left) Newt Gingrich having zero chance of winning. It is time to start to come to grips with the idea of a Romney nomination. So as a personal exercise I will list what I DO LIKE about Romney as perhaps a starting point for eventually being able to support his candidacy.

He has been married to his lovely wife Ann for 43 years. In our society this is no easy feat. Having been married myself for 14 years I can tell you this takes honesty, compromise, commitment and you truly have to love your spouse. He and Ann also have 5 happy, healthy and what appear to be very nice children. So the first on my list of what I like about Mitt Romney is dedicated and faithful family man. As a culture we definitely need more honorable fathers and husbands as role models.

He appears by all measures to be a patriot and a man who truly loves his country. Though he didn’t serve in the military I don’t think Mitt Romney will be doing any apology tours either. I also don’t think you will hear Mitt in public or private discussing undermining our national defense with our enemies. Or bad mouthing our staunchest allies to other world leaders, think Obama and his “open mic” comments about Israel’s prime minister. So second on my list Mitt is a proud patriot who would represent us faithfully on the world stage. Considering the last 4 years of representation we have had I think we can all look forward to having a president who actually likes Americans, America and our way of life again.

His tax returns reveal a man who is very generous in his charitable giving. I personally give to Wounded Warriors, The American Red Cross and The Salvation Army. What I can afford of course though not nearly on the same levels as Mitt. I think it is important to share with those of us who truly need our help. Third on my list Mitt Romney is compassionate and appears to generally care for those less fortunate (which in Mitt’s case is all of us).

As that is all I can honestly come up with for now and I have successfully avoided a drinking binge I will leave this as TO BE CONTINUED…… Perhaps… Maybe… Don’t hold me to anything ;)

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  • zachv

    … would have reacted if Romney had lost to Santorum which shows true character. I tip my hat to you, good Sir!

  • mikeymike143

    so even though he is not my first choice either, he is our republican nominee. and i saw people posting earlier about newt still having a reasonable chance to win. no he doesnt.

    newt was getting clobbered by santorum and santorum dropped because he had no chance of winning the nomination against mitt.

    its romney vs obama in november for the whole ball of wax. go mitt go!!

    • Viet71

      n/t

    • xymbaline

      As long as he’s here, there’s still hope.

      • Scope

        From the emails Newt sent to Romney shortly after Santorum’s exit yesterday, Newt has finally proven that he has already found his own personal moon colony which exists only in his own mind.

        I can’t stand the thoughts of the establishment having won the propaganda game with shoving the very uninspiring, monotone, boring and uppity Romney on a very naive and obviously gullible population, but you really have to be pretty darn delusional to think that Newt has even the most remote chance of winning the nomination. Gingrich is a figment of his own wild imagination.

        • garfieldjl

          Slim as it may be, there is a chance.

          It’s either that or resign ourselves to Obama winning in November. While Obama is worse than Carter, people need to realize that Carter’s incompetitence wasn’t the only reason why Reagan clobbered Carter.

          1. Reagan offered a positive vision for the future, Romney has yet to offer a vision of anything.

          2. Reagan had core convictions, Romney was compared to an “etch-a-sketch” by his own campaign staff.

          3. Reagan offered a clear choice between himself and Carter. Romney doesn’t give us that clear choice.

          4. Reagan never made the gaffe: “I like firing people.”

          5. Reagan actually could rally people behind him and unite the party, people wanted to support him. Romney supporters bully Conservatives whom are unenthusiastic about Romney.

          Romney is going to probably start moving hard left, and further alienate Conservatives, I will be pleasently surprised if he keeps to Conservative values, but that’s wishful thinking on a lot of people’s parts.

          If Romney actually keeps to the Conservative platform we’ll win, but judging from his past record and his tendency to fear hard left, I think the idiots in the establishment handed Obama 4 more years to wreck the country.

          • gekster

            ././././

          • evictobama

            this site has been full of tribbles for the last 8 months. Half of them are liberals who are only coming here to stir the pot. (Of course they hate Romney, he’s against everything they stand for.)

            The other half are actually site administrators and those who suck up to them. We are again organizing a circular firing squad with conservatives picking off other conservatives because they happen to support the guy (Romney) who will be the GOP nominee.

            I hope that Romney wins this year. Anything is better than Obama.

            But I also hope that the site administrators will realize that burning Romney supporters for supporting a guy who is arguably more conservative than Gingrich, Santorum, and even Rick Perry is no way to run a conservative web-blog.

            We must do better.

          • Scope

            or in this case, battered candidate syndrome, you or Gingrich. Oh, he (they) really do love me, and he (they) really don’t mean to abuse me (shun me), just wait, you’ll see, tomorrow he’ll (they) will show how much he (they) love me.

            There have been now more than 30 states that have voted, and consistently, over and over, the voters have said no to Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is polling lower than Ron Paul in most every poll. If anyone had the slightest chance of beating Romney, and it was slim, it would have been the candidate that has already won 11 states, and over 3 million votes, and that wasn’t Gingrich.

            In fact, with Gingrich trying to grab the Santorum voters, in less than a few hours after Santorum dropped out, and sending emails to Mitt Romney asking him to drop out, Gingrich has shown that he is nothing more than a classless, clueless fool. Like Rush had said, Gingrich was determined, through revenge, to deny Romney the nomination, but he didn’t want anyone else to get it either. How dare he be denied his years long goal of becoming the president. Uh Huh, for years I’ve wanted to win the lottery also, but it never happened.

            Someone needs to send the song to Newtie- “What part of no do you not understand.”

          • mswalnut

            and exactly what email from Newt you’re talking about?

          • dajeeps

            It has implications for the future of our sometime republic, but there is little doubt in my mind Romney will use it to carry out his cutting and cleaning pledge until the courts weigh in on the matter.

            While I sort of agree with the sentiment, it’s the best I can do to just drop opposition to our presumptive nominee because I know exactly where the alternative, Obama and his Democrats, stand in relation to spending and debt regardless of what macroeconomics 101 tells us about the situation. That is where Romney and Obama differ, and that is a good thing.

            It’s all in the AS/AD model. If the Fed is strictly targeting inflation, to which it has recently admitted, and MV=PY, there is very little that can be done on the AD side for stimulus, which is where fiscal & monetary stimulus works. Anything that disturbs the price level in an upward direction beyond the 2% target, regardless of origination, the Fed will tighten policy. In theory, if the government keeps going hog wild on the supply side and creates a bunch of supply side inflation, we will get another recession, and we’ll keep getting them until government jettisons its big government ways and gets the pro-growth mindset. The AS side of the model is the only thing left that policy makers can influence that will fix our economic morass, aside from going after the Fed for what its doing.

            There is no doubt in my mind that should Obama win in November and bring a new Democrat majority in with him, we are finished because they cannot adjust to a monetary policy regime where big government will no longer be papered over and it will cause far more economic harm in the long run. The worse things get, the less real growth we’ll have, and less ability to keep throwing money around even to help the poor (we’ll just keep expanding their ranks from those who were previously self-sufficient) – until Greece happens here.

            So, for me, the choice is clear. And while I won’t be heaping unearned praise on our presumptive nominee and drinking the kool aid, those are some truths that I will be talking about in the months to come.

          • Flagstaff

            didn’t have enough delegates for him to win.

            I don’t get the Romney hate at all. F’gawd’s sake, he’s Ward Cleaver with two advanced degrees from Harvard. Unlike some Presidents, he actually learned something either there or elsewhere–how to organize a “project.” Neither Rick nor Newt had that skill, or at least learned it well enough to pull it off.

            It wasn’t going to get any better, so Rick did the smart thing and quit. Just like Sarah Palin. I’m sure you’ve defended her, as I have, so we know that he doesn’t need a defense. He had plenty of good reasons to quit, maybe some of them personal, and he did. Now he doesn’t have to fight it out in Pennsylvania, and Romney doesn’t have to waste money that can be used to fight Obama there.

            PA was lose-lose for Santorum. If he even won by a small margin, it wouldn’t have been the validation he needed to continue in the race. He needed a big win in PA, as Romney did in Massachusetts (72%), and he wasn’t going to get it.

          • xymbaline

            First off, every Moderate/Liberal Republican has lost every Presidential election they’ve been in since 1976:

            Gerald Ford 1976 – Lost to Jimmy Carter

            GHW Bush 1992 – lost to Bill Clinton

            Bob Dole 1996 – lost to Bill Clinton

            John McCain 2008 – lost to Barack Obama.

            Romney is a Moderate Republican. OK?

            Next, the ‘Fake Conservative’ Republicans, GW Bush and Richard Nixon, led to massive defeats of their own Party while they were in office (Bush 2006 – lost the House and Senate, then the Presidency in 2008. Nixon lost 5 Senate seats, 48 House seats, then the Presidency in 1976). Meanwhile, the Democrats lost no seats at all, a political first.

            And that was because, both Fake Conservatives governed as Democrats Lite. Nixon created Wage and Price Controls and took us off the Gold standard. Then he opened up relations with China. Bush raised the Debt and Deficits to record heights, only eclipsed by Obama the Marxist. Nixon created the EPA and widened Johnson’s Great Society. On and on their records go. Nowhere did they shrink Government in the slightest.

            In 1980 and 1984, Ronald Reagan, a True Conservative, took office. He lowered taxes, created 16 million jobs, enhanced Science and Technology to unprecedented degrees with Star Wars and the Space Shuttle, and laid the foundation for the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Empire.

            In 1994, another True Conservative, Newt Gingrich, took the Reagan mantle, he created the Contract With America, created 11 million new jobs, and balanced the Budget 4 times in a row.

            So in a choice between the architects of the biggest political landfalls of the last 50 years, The Reagan landslides and the overtaking of the House in 1996, and yet another example of the Republican who cannot and never will win a Presidential election, you guys are proud of getting behind a certain loser.

            Mindblowing, but yet, typically Republican.

            Didn’t you ever wonder why George Bush sat mute while the Left and the Media crucified him day after day, year after year? He had a thousand opportunities to take them on and explain true Constitutionalism, and uttered not a single word for 8 years.

            Didn’t you wonder why, after taking control of the House, the Senate *and* the Presidency, the Republicans didn’t shrink Government in the slightest, and in fact, expanded it greater than anyone except Obama the Marxist?

            Sorry, got to go for now. Will do Part 2 tomorrow.

          • SoFiMil

            What you say may very well be true, but what do you think of positives TexasTaxpayer detailed re Mr. Mittens? Your Part II is much better suited as a separate diary and not a comment in reply to this diary.

          • Flagstaff

            Those are the only two words necessary to comment on how Newt Gingrich would “shrink government” and “balance the budget.”

            And just in case you didn’t notice, Ronald Reagan didn’t shrink the government, either.

            “Romney is a Moderate Republican. OK?”

            Only if you say so.

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        • mswalnut

          Look at the dates, please.

  • cheetah2

    These are strengths that are undeniable and that will help him against Obama. I too regret where we have ended up but we need to move on to our most important task, beating Obama. That means promoting Romney as much as we can bring ourselves to!

    • cheetah2

      Romney is a very intelligent man. Just hope it helps him run an intelligent campaign against Obama.

  • samcoastie

    To reconcile yourself to an unpleasant reality and make a good faith effort to support Romney in under 24 hours demonstrates a strongly grounded and supremely ethical person, to my mind.

    If Romney doesn’t stray from his current rhetoric, it should get easier. There’s some good stuff there.

  • Ann_W

    I would add that he definitely has the potential to dig into the budget and cut spending because it’s something he has done before. This time he will (very hopefully) have a Repub Congress to hold his feet to the fire on spending cuts. Can we imagine the kind of bills Mike Lee would send through with a majority R Senate? There is much to be optimistic about.

  • Ender

    diary. Though a Romney supporter, I like others and you, hope he governs the same way he speaks.

    • xymbaline

      to sing me lullabys.

      Just about as likely.

      • Flagstaff

        Don’t wear it out.

        You’re a cynic. We get it.

        • aesthete

          is that he’s not Obama.

          That just about rounds out the list for me.

          • snowshooze

            I nearly forgot that one.

  • greyeagle

    was not my choice. I was excited about Governor Rick Perry, new he could do the job and was a staunch conservative. Then the supporters of Romney, but the worst were Palin’s, Ron Paul’s, Bachmann’s and Santorum’s. All piles on and constantly trashed Governor Perry. Uninformed voters did not investigate, but believed this mud slinging. So the voters rejected him. I bet they are sorry now. If Romney is the nominee, I will support him, because Obama is far far worse.

    • samcoastie

      becuse people didn’t trust him to beat Obama. It wasn’t the obvious mudslinging that sunk him, it was his lame responses and his failure to effectively put his own vision and record out front and center. I believe he would make a great president, as I believe most here do. Given the improvement he displayed as the campaign moved on I believe he could have beaten Obama. His early flubs would have been of little import.

      But he quit.

      • rightlane1111

        who has a major back operation…they’re not at the top of their game. Should have gotten in sooner…should have had more coaching for debates…and should have been more healthy.

        Please don’t discount the MSM’s portrait painting of Perry, their lack of coverage, the TPM’s failure to endorse everything they believe in and a real push by them to accentuate his record.

        • http://barbershopvalues.com daconia

          Romney was far from my 1st choice, but, the way I see it, the differences between the Republican candidates are trivial compared to what we face. It is like we didn’t get the first choice of exterminators to get rid of the rats in the attic. When the 2nd choice shows up at the house, get after them rats, man!
          I don’t feel bad, at least Romney is a real person, as I noted earlier at American Thinker:
          http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/a_real_person_for_president.html

    • snowshooze

      Really.
      I’d never be accused of being a blind sheep for anyone.

  • checkmate2012

    from a fellow Texan. Your post a couple days ago was spot on and we’ve been silenced again. But I’m with you as we have to go with the cards we’ve been dealt and find positive traits as reality sets in with the most important goal of delivering a pink slip to the Whitehouse this November!

  • texashistorian

    of having yet another moderate squished forced on me as the GOP nominee– as checkmate points out above, its over for us in Texas though we haven’t voted– I honestly had to grapple with whether I could vote for Romney.

    I can. I doubt I will ever be entirely comfortable with or enthusiastic about the man, but I can punch out a chad next to his name, and save the interest, excitement, and work for the down ballot candidates here in Texas. But Obama must be stopped.

    Is there anything I like about Romney? Yes– he comes off as old-fashioned. The left blasts him about it, but I like that about him. Slick, hip, and ultra-modern is what we have now, and it’s a trainwreck. I also believe he would be someone I would like to work for in private sector employment. Not much, but as my fellow Texan who started this notes, it’s a start. I jut hope Mitt will work a bit harder to bring in conservatives who are dubious. I think I can speak for many that I know in saying I want to like Mitt better than I do. I want to feel comfortable with him. Let’s see what happens next.

  • Flagstaff

    are words. Mitt is saying the right words, most of the time. (Please don’t ask any candidate to never have a slip of the lip.) On substantive matters, I don’t disagree with him on anything other than some details. I’m with him in direction.

    IF we can get him elected, he’ll then have a chance to show us, and then we can know whether all the dubiousness was warranted or not.

    If everybody would just open their eyes, they would know that statement applied to everybody in the ring. There are plenty of us who were dubious of Rick and Newt and the others, too.