I think he’s probably at least as electable, if not more so, as McCain. He has the advantage of not being over 70 (not that being old is an issue, but being president is like being a dog in the stress it puts on people - four years as president seems like 28 regular human years).

As far as the yard sign is concerned, if you make your own holder, driving the nail through an old-fashioned bottle cap is the way to keep the paper from tearing.

So, why should we vote for Romney beyond the hair? Can you elaborate on your endorsement beyond electability over Huckabee and age over McCain.

Ned, I’m feelin’ ya, and I hate the fact that it’s come down to crappy choices (IMHO). There’s lots of video out there of Romney taking some quite liberal positions as govenor of Mass, and I can just see the hecklers carrying flip flops.

I get the overwhelming feeling that, in each party, the Establishment candidates are being rammed down our throats. I remember feeling that way about Dole.

It’s pretty disheartening.

Mitt Martindale would be an excellent game show host.
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So would Wink Romney.

I get the overwhelming feeling that, in each party, the Establishment candidates are being rammed down our throats. I remember feeling that way about Dole.

It’s pretty disheartening.

I’m still planning on writing in Thomas Jefferson.

You have no problem with the flippity-floppity, flippity-floppity. It makes Kerry’s so-called flip-flopping frankly look like childs play.

And sure he was a good businessman, but I’m not sure how many folks say he was a good governor.

And why doesn’t he have a stance for ethics in business and government that he’s articulated
to the national press?

The Nation reports that the former running mate of Mitt’s father was campaigning for McCain. Isn’t that odd?

“I have long admired Senator McCain for his straight talk and service to the country,” says Milliken. “There’s a real sense of integrity in the firm positions he takes, even though they are not always popular. I don’t agree with him on all issues, but I like his well-earned reputation of saying what he means, and meaning what he says.”

I lived in Massachusetts while Mittunswillard was the absentee governor. He became a Massachusetts resident so he could give Jane Swift, the acting governor left in place by Paul Cellucci (the acting governor left in place by Bill Weld) the sailor’s elbow. He than ran on a “moderate” platform and once elected proceeded to spend more time campaigning for president than he did trying to run the state.

He, like Rudy the G, is quite adept at having his square jawed, impeccably tailored and well coiffed self in every photo op, but, again like Rudy, is much shorter on substance than he is on style.

If Mitt believes in anything, he believes that he can do what he likes because he has the whip hand. He’s demonstrated that talent numerous times in both the private and public sector. He is widely despised in the land of the bean and the cod.

Excellent choice Ned. I was afraid you were a Huckster backer.

I’d say that Ann Coulter has said all that needs to be said about McCain as far as my Primary choice.

And thanks for the practical (and uni-partisan!) advice Jim. I think they may have already delivered my sign.

So, it is not so much that you like Romney, it is just that he is the only palatable one left since McCain is a “RINO” and Huckabee is not electable.

I was asking for something pro-Romney not anti-everyone else, but no matter. LP it is.

Bloomberg/Lieberman ‘08!
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Jeffraham Prestonian:

The Black Jack goes in the glass, the Zerex goes in the radiator. A Bumbleberg/Lebensraum ticket has the same chance of success as a Dennis/Paul or Ron/Kucinich effort.

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Well, DB, why didn’t you say so? I think Mitt is the most pro-growth candidate and is by far the most “proven” executive. In my opinion, Mitt is more articulate and a better orator than McCain. And I can wholeheartedly support Mitt on the basis of demonstrated character. And you can bet that, should Mitt be elected, Libs’ll have a hard time displaying bumper stickers saying, “My poodle is smarter than my president”

Whether Mittunswillard is smarter than a poodle is open to question, he is certainly more well groomed than most of them.

I suppose you think you’re more intelligent than Romney, dc? Than dubya, even?

nedwilliams:

Umm, yeah. I’m smart enough to know that I (I’m the “decider”) seems to have grasped that.

When it comes to gutting companies for short term profit, Mittunswillard is a master–that doesn’t take a great deal of intelligence, but it does take a certain amount of callous indifference to other human beings. In fairness it must be said that Mittunswillard has never gutted a Mormon owned company, afia. Romney is, like George W. Bush, driven to succeed where he supposes his father to have failed. In Bush’s case the outcome of that experiment has been an unqualified foreign relations and domestic policy disaster (see Katrina; see Iraq, Afghanistan). Romney was a do-nothing (that didn’t involve a photo op) governor and has the stability of a wind sock.

Yeah, I think I’m smarter than either of them, just not when it comes to amassing money or dissembling.

Well, now. That whole first paragraph got truncated.

Should have read:
Umm, yeah. I’m smart enough to know that I can wear any outfit I want to but I can’t change my skin; neither Mittunswillard (I’m from Utah, no I’m from Massachusetts, I’m a moderate, no I’m a KKKonservative) and pretendsident Bush
(I’m the “decider”) seems to have grasped that.

Well if you say so, dc (but then again I didn’t know that you are also a psychiatrist).

Oh, golly, Nedwilliams:

There’s just no pleasing you.

If you’re referring to what I said about both Bushkins and Willard Romney trying to best their fathers–that’s not just my opinion, it’s been covered in the press, especially re: B43.

Mitt Romney v John McCain, what a choice to have to make. An empty suit or a really, really pissed off septuagenarian. I heard today that McCain had to borrow money to get his campaign through December–and, that the bank made him take out a life insurance policy so they wouldn’t get stiffed if he did. Romney tossed 18M of his own money into the campaign (I wonder if he tithed on that?).

I’m not too fond of Barack Obama and I really dislike Hillary. Thank God, they are not running for prom king and queen.