If only Mitt Romney would tell us how he really feels
By all accounts the best qualified candidate for president is Mitt Romney. He brings a background as a successful businessman and effective governor. He showed he could work with democrats to achieve legislative goals. He also did a great job preparing for the Winter Olympics.
These many attributes should make him a virtual certainty for the Republican nomination. But the problem is not the negative attacks from the right on Romney. After all, Mother Teresa would be the target of brutal negative attacks if she were running for president. No. The problem is Mitt Romney himself and the reason I have a difficult time supporting his nomination. The man is just plain dishonest.
From his flip flopping on abortion to state sponsored health insurance, to his vigorous defense of corporations being “people,” I see a man who will say anything if he thinks that’s what the audience wants to hear.
Mitt Romney is not a “tea party” small government zealot. Neither am I. He is a businessman. He has no reason to justify his accumulation of wealth by pretending social concerns. The jobs created and lost through the actions of Bain Capital were simply the products of decisions made to make money. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. If the demand for a product requires more people to produce, sell and service it then you hire employees. This is simple economics and despite Romney’s assertions to the contrary jobs are created for the ultimate success of the business, not out of the goodness of their hearts as Romney would have us believe.
Mitt Romney has the most money and largest organization of the primary candidates. He will lose nothing and will more likely gain the votes of the sensible voter, both Republicans and independents, as well as the extreme fringe. He just needs to speak the truth about his real views and stop trying to spin everything.
I want a real candidate. One I can be proud to vote for. If I wanted someone who just repeated what Grover Norquist or Pat Robertson said I would write in Grover Norquist or Pat Robertson.
In conclusion, I can make my own decisions. Mitt Romney showed at one time he could do that as well. I hope he decides to start doing it again because there isn’t much of a choice out there.
I pointed out his dishonesty Bill.
Wealth doesn’t make someone evil. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are wealthy. Buffett has been about making money his whole life.
President Obama and the Clintons became wealthy because of their political skills.
I look for past success, judgment and character in whom I vote for. Romney fails on the last two accounts.
David, I am sure you are well meaning but personally I don’t understand how anyone can trust someone who has simply been all about money most of his life and is apparently being deceitful about it now. Romney is not the first ultra rich person to run for the presidency but he has not been very good about sharing his wealth or influence with others such as the Kennedy’s or George H. W. Bush.
I have to agree Bill. I’ve known any number of MBA’s in my life and can honestly say I’ve never met one I have come to like. They are generally cold and insensitive to the needs of people.