I admire President Obama. I admire his intelligence, his competence, and his rationality and patience in the face of opponents who...well...let's just say they never quite signed on to the whole Earth being round thing. I find his attitudes and values similar to my own, and in many respects I find that he leads by example.
Do you, Romney supporters, feel the same way about your candidate? Does he inspire you? Are his values a higher example of your own?
I'm also curious, just in hindsight, whether you felt that way about George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Are those your ideal "Americans"? If you've changed your mind about them, have you reached any conclusions about why you failed to see what the other half of the country saw about them immediately?
Returning to Romney, if you don't admire him, is it just that you hate Obama so much (three guesses why that hatred is so much more intense in the South) that anyone you think has a shot at beating him is acceptable?
Was it the same story with Al Gore in 2000 - you just hated him so much that peace and prosperity were too high a price to pay for having a Democrat in the White House?
Thanks for your input.
You really think that Barack Obama "leads by example"? Is so...then why hasn't he tackled any of the tough spending cuts that we all know have to be made? Why can't he come up with a legitimate budget? Why does he spend so much of his time pointing fingers at others as the reason that "he" can't get anything done?
I'm sorry, Troubadour...but the reason I want to replace Barack Obama is that I don't think he's in the least bit "competent".
I want Romney in the Oval Office for several reasons. First and foremost, he understands business, something that is a glaring weakness of Barack Obama. Secondly, he has a history of working across the aisle to accomplish things...something that Obama has demonstrated absolutely NO aptitude for at all. Despite your thinly veiled (if you want to accuse Barry's detractors of being racists, Troubadour...which you obviously believe...have the balls to state so) accusations of racism being behind the hatred of Obama...the reason that most people don't like him as our President is that he has no solutions to our problems that don't include massive increases to an already out of control debt.