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Does the endorsement of Mitt Romney by National Review (long time publication founded by William Buckley ) mean anything to you ? Will it have any influence on who you support ?
Nope -- just like Oprah's endorsement of Obama means nothing to me.
I make my own decisions based on thorough research and observation.
I second that opinion. I don't need someone else making up my mind. I will educate myself and make what I feel is the best decision for me and my family.
I look at Romney and conclude that he could be a competent President based on his executive and business accomplishments .But he is hardly what you would call a conservative .Not only that;but with many of his conservative positions ,he is a Johnny come lately ......or as Fred Thompson said last night (paraphrase ) "he's wearing out that road to Damascus".
National Review wrote in the endorsement
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Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate
.In my opinion they were more concerned with "viable" .
I think you point out the primary problem with the Republicans. Which is - they don't have a candidate.
Romney is a flip flopper, Huckabee is a big government guy, Giuliani is a philanderer, McCain is too old, Fred is boring, and I can't even remember the names of the rest. Oh, Tancredo... Yeah, the Republicans like him.... Bwa, ha ha.
I'd say his social conservative positions are what he is a rather recent convert. However ;he has led to my knowledge a very socially conservative life.
Other problems as Excon pointed out is that he is a product of Massachusetts politics .That means that to be successful he had to at a minimum straddle moderate positions . The state medical insurance plan he instituted was very close to plans proposed by Democrats . So there is the spectre of "flip flop "that he will have to live with if he is the nominee.
I agree with you that a successful business man would be a good President but not if it was his sole accomplishment.
I think Romney and Huckabee are two heads of the same horse. They are both vying for the anti-Rudy alternative vote. The advantage that Huckabee has gained is because the values voters (who were declared irrelevent on this board not too long ago) are standing up to be heard.
But I do not think that Huckabee is the answer . He suffers from different conversions than Romney . He was until recently less than a fiscal conservative.
Of all the candidates , Fred Thompson is perhaps the most consistent conservative. I am really suprised that National Review did not choose him.
National Review gave the standard media rational about Thompson. That he has not displayed that he wants the job. (that is basically Excon's critique also )
But if you got a chance to see the debate in Iowa yesterday you would see that he is getting into mid-season form. There is still a good 3 weeks before the Iowa Caucus and 2 months before Super Tuesday . I think he has plenty of time to convince primary voters he is the real deal. Huckabee's rise shows that momentum can turn quickly .
Thompson himself got a major endorsement this week . Morton Blackwell Endorses Fred Thompson for President - Standard Newswire
Among conservative circles Morton Blackwell's support is a very big plus . He carries great organizational muscle both as Republican National Committeeman and as head of the Leadership Institute, which has trained tens of thousands of conservative acvitists through the years.
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