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Politics : PRESIDENT MITT ROMNEY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SGJ who wrote (115)	11/8/2012 7:24:23 AM
From: TheSlowLane	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

Gee if only there had been a candidate like that. Oh wait...there was. Not Perry. Not Palin. Not Cain. Not Romney. Not Gingrich, Huntsman or Santorum. I'm talking about the old guy who the media ridiculed at every opportunity...or at least, every opportunity where they could not avoid pretending he doesn't even exist.

To: SGJ who wrote (115)	11/8/2012 10:15:30 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 135

He lost because many conservatives voted with their feet and stayed home on election night. I thought way back that he had no chance and even originally intended to stay home. But there were other things to vote for and he would have been marginally better than Obama so I voted for him. Romney would have advocated for less socialism, as he would have advanced another version of Obamacare. Actually some of the other primary candidates were only slightly better. Maybe next time. On social issues Romney was the softest of the bunch. IMO he did little to show that during the final leg of the campaign. However I also disagree that young people want abortion, free contraception, and gay marrage. Some may be confused about what those issues mean. For example they confuse free contraception with the right to use same. The issue is control of the media. I slam Jack Walch at every opportunity because he was a former GE CEO who is supposedly a conservative. Yet he did nothing to change NBC, in fact it got more radical under him.