I like Mitt Romney, and I’ll always appreciate that he gave me a telephone interview on the day in 2007 that he announced his candidacy for president (though I doubt this was a good use of his time).
The alternative is being willing to actually do the things you tell the voters you're going to do. You don't have to be a saint to do that, or even a decent guy. I'll take that any day over a vainglorious striver who lusts after a title his father never obtained.
One of the sad things about our current political time is that to stay viable in the increasingly grotesque major political parties, otherwise decent people feel they have no choice but to do whatever it takes to in fact be viable. Mitt Romney is not a Saint. He is a decent man with a core identity that doesn't include some of the radicalism necessary to make it in the GOP or Democratic parties. Like so many others he has flipped and flopped. But what is the alternative? Lunatics who stand by their lunatic ideas?
The alternative is being willing to actually do the things you tell the voters you're going to do. You don't have to be a saint to do that, or even a decent guy. I'll take that any day over a vainglorious striver who lusts after a title his father never obtained.
One of the sad things about our current political time is that to stay viable in the increasingly grotesque major political parties, otherwise decent people feel they have no choice but to do whatever it takes to in fact be viable. Mitt Romney is not a Saint. He is a decent man with a core identity that doesn't include some of the radicalism necessary to make it in the GOP or Democratic parties. Like so many others he has flipped and flopped. But what is the alternative? Lunatics who stand by their lunatic ideas?