What makes this of interest to you, dear readers, is that they are probably the only two conservatives living in MA. When the talk turned to the 2012 election, after we got done downing a few Shiners to get the foul taste out of our mouths from speaking obama's name, they were surprisingly positive about Romney.
The prevailing attitude among 'serious' conservatives is that Romney is a RINO, and most people will vote for him only because the alternative is worse. But they lived in Mass. while Romney was governor, and their take is that he knows what he's doing, understands how the economy works, and is pro-business. They added that he's also pragmatic, which is why his record as governor is not as conservative as many of us would like. In their words, he did the best he could with the cards he was dealt. Remember, Massachusetts is a very liberal state. The fact that Romney was elected there, much less managed to get some of his legislative agenda passed, says something about him - I'm just not sure what.
So the bottom line is that I feel a little better about Romney now than I did, but I remain somewhat skeptical. Still, I'm now a little more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I just hope they're right...
(Bots - Roger and Terry say "hi.")
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There are Good RINOs and Bad RINOs, of course, just as there are Good and Bad Groupers and Damnocraps. The way things have been going in the Good Ol' USSA the past 50 years, I guess getting a Good RINO in the WH is about all, and the best, we can hope for; folks just don't seem to have the guts to elect Ron Paul and go back to basics.
But, and this is the heart of the matter to me, the key to good grubernment, lower taxes, etc., etc., is the votes people cast for Reps and Sens. That's the heart of it, and we've been sending idiots to DC to fill those jobs for MORE than 50 years.
Remember that little tif we had back in the 1860's? Our Reps and Sens did that, and now we're nearly bankrupt. Makes you wonder... maybe those fools really are representative of the intelligence of the country?
Glad to hear that someone is Mass. has their heads on straight. Hopefully Romney can change a few minds as the election get's closer. And I hope he stays out of the swamp that the Obama camp will be trying to drag him into. They got to Santorum and that derailed his campaign, he jumped in the swamp with both feet when baited by the lefties, and it swallowed him whole, (I am sure Romneys ad's didn't help), but if they succeed drawing Romney in, the media will attack and do the same thing they did to Santorum.
Pascvaks - Agreed. I usually vote for the Libertarian on the ballot in local elections. But I can't bring myself to, IMO, waste my vote on the Libertarian presidential candidate when there is no chance of him getting elected.
Jeff - I hope you're right about staying out of the swamp, but as we've seen with the hair-cutting incident he's falling into the same trap. Instead of apologizing for something that even the 'victim's' family said was not a case of bullying, he should pull a Newt and respond with an attack: "Why is the media more concerned with something that happened over 40 years ago than with record deficits and sky-high unemployment?"
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