re: President Romney

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He is our last shot at having a worthy POTUS before the Dems take over forever.

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If you believe that, you're dumb.

Progressive policies always breed discontent among voters. Reagan was the last President to be followed by a President from the same party. The rest after him were progressives and caused congress to switch to the opposition party followed by the next President.

The only consistent thing about the American people is that they are fickle. With the American appetite for change and tendency to hate whoever's in charge, having only one party in charge would create a huge vaccuum. It is impossible.

It will continue to oscillate between D and R until a true conservative gets in. He or she will buy a successive presidency for his or her party. It will be up to the successor to not screw it up.

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I would vote for him again in a heartbeat.

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I agree however I'd rather Mike Pence or Scott Walker

I voted for Romney and was devastated when he lost.

Mostly devastated because of who got re-elected.


And we've been paying for it ever since.

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I think his true personality came across just fine. That's why he lost the election.

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I went to 5 of his events, including 3 of the "informal variety", one a spaghetti supper in my small town, where it was more like a large family gathering than a campaign event. He was laughing and cutting up and completely in his comfort zone as he moved among the tables. Hardly any press at that event and he carried himself completely differently than he did in debates and speeches. I also know several people in Wolfeboro who have talked to him regularly over a period of several years and all say he's as down to earth as one can get in that setting.

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Agree, but he held back, and didn't go for the throat. His staying above board and keeping it classy didn't represent the fight conservative wanted against a total incompetent rival..

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I think that's a fair assessment. I also think that the republicans would be wise to not castrate each other again during the republican primary debates. They gave the democrats plenty of free rocks to throw during the last election.

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I agree however I'd rather Mike Pence or Scott Walker

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I threw Pence's name out there in this forum a few months back. One thing for sure is if he does run, he will get TONS of campaign cash in the early going, thanks to a couple of guys named Charles and David.

Even though there were a number of things I disagreed with him on, I will always believe that Romney would have been a tremendous President.

After watching the Mitt documentary on Netflix I was infuriated for about a week that he didn't let his personality shine through as much as he should have.

I would vote for him again.

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If he gets there, we will get a spring in our step and snap back for a little bit before the demographics take complete control and we go down hard.

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Sorry, but that is loser talk. There is no reason Hispanic immigrants could not vote (eventually) republican. Sure we might have to wander the wilderness for a bit for our dumbass nativist wing; but:

1. There are plenty of pro-immigrant conservatives (like me)

2. There are plenty of former immigrant groups that vote conservative now when they originally voted democratic (southern european and asian are the two groups I am mostly thinking of).

Republicans should be the party of ideas and those ideas can transcend demographics.

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Romney may have many talents, but he is not a good politician.

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We don't need a politician.

We need (needed at the time and now) someone who is actually competent and can run a country. Most politicians do not fit the bill.