The only reason that Mitt Romney is at all attractive as a candidate is (a) he's polling relatively well (i.e., it's not crazy as a GOPer to throw your support behind him as it would be for anyone else except Perry or Cain), and (b) he's not a lunatic (like Perry and Cain, and 9 out of 10 of the other GOP candidates out there).
But once you get past that, and the idea that he's got some business acumen, I guess, or that he was a moderate governor in Massachusetts, then you don't have much else. Because there isn't a single significant issue that he hasn't pirouetted like a lunatic over in the last decade — if not the last year — as he's attempted to portray himself as a moderate to the Dems and a hard-liner to the GOP.
And any who thinks that, suddenly, in the White House, he'll be able to "be himself" again and be more like he used to be … a man like Romney will be immediately looking to he 2016 election, and not burning any bridges he might have built with the Far Right.
I don't think Romney would be as bad as Perry, or Cain, or Santorum, or Bachmann — but, given his willingness to say whatever he thinks his current audience of choice wants to hear, how can I know that? #ddtb
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At the intersection of ambition and dishonor
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