bobcollum
Rookie
Has been "vetted". Been in politics for a long time. No suprises in his personal life. Boy scout clean.
Unless theeconomy does a 180.
No president has been re-eleced with such a crappy economy and lousy job per rating.......................
But there's one little problem.
Nobody actually likes the guy.
Elections are won by the guy people find likable.
If you nominate Romney over the objections of the 75% of Republicans who are conservatives, evangelicals and Tea partiers, you will have a third party movement that will split the anti-Obama vote and Obama gets a second term. Easy.
Seriously, I've been talking to Romney supporters since 2008. No one acutally talks about his principles, his charisma or his great record as a governor.
Discounting the ones who are LDS Cultists, the usual arguments for him are that he's "moderate" (keeping in mind that when the GOP nominates moderates, they lose) he's a successful businesman (except that he laid thousands of people off in his business ventures, which is like getting caught kicking a puppy in this economy) and he's electable (Forgetting the fact that he's lost 80% of the elections he's ever stood in.)
Oh, yeah, and the one you make, that he's been "vetted" because he's run before. Right. So was McCain. So was Dole. See how well those worked out? The 'It's his turn" strategy hasn't worked for the GOP since 1988. The GOP lost four out of the last five popular votes for President with that kind of thinking.
Dole and McCain were old.
Romney doesnt look old.
He's looking a lot older lately.