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  1. I was on that thread yesterday that you linked at the end of your post. I have to agree. It was full of the worst Anti-Romney commentators I have ever read. The hatred was palatable.

    I also agree with your point that there are some very wonderful people we all fantasize about seeing on the ballot. Those same people strike me as rational beings, not fed by inflated egos and/or realizing that perhaps they need a little more experience under their belts before they take on this behemoth nightmare of running for president.

  2. I believe the origin of that “ran-to-the-left-of-Teddy” meme was a statement by Romney that he would be a more effective senator than EMK on the issue of gay rights. He has explained this comment as a reference to the fact that as a Republican, his support for gay rights would have a lot more sway in Washington and nationally.

    Obviously, Mitt’s comment wouldn’t even justify the assertion that he ran to left of Kennedy ON GAY RIGHTS, let alone across the entire spectrum of issues being discussed in that election.

    Unfortunately, the Romney haters have just accepted his “liberalism” as an article of faith. You can’t get through an entire comment thread on a lot a sites without coming across someone asserting that Mitt and Obama are ideological twins. It’s insane.

  3. I can’t help but remember how many of the anti-Romney types jumped onto the Cain bandwagon before they knew a thing about him. I’m not talking about the women stuff; I’m talking about his disinterest in foreign policy and probably not knowing who the committtee chairs are in congress. I won’t waste my time on these people and their rants. If they have real alternatives, I’ll give them a hearing.

  4. Lisa –

    Although I do find Romney hatred palatable, and I’d be delighted if you did too, I think you were gunning for “palpable.”

  5. I anything about Romney starts giving me bad vibes i just think about Barak Obama. Then Romney’s bad vibes miraculously turn into wonderful attributes!

  6. On the Internet, blog comments, emails, instant messages, Tweets, etc. are often just too damned intense. That’s part of the reason anti-Romney comments are often so brutal.

    I think a large part of the explanation of this is the anonymity on the Internet. People say things to and about other people they’d never say to their faces. If the did, they’d get smacked.

  7. In some parts of America, they’d also get shot. Which may put a damper on some people’s willingness to part with their mouth on promises their a&& can not cash.

    Politics is brutal because of the Left. Just in general that is so. The aristocrats do not really like peasants and peons and people who didn’t make the educational “cut” and “accent”, near their circles of power. They have ways to make sure of this. And all Americans engaging in the political process, are affected by this cultural imperative one way or another, even if they aren’t part of the aristo class.

  8. Lisa –

    Thank YOU for taking it in good humor. I was poking fun at myself (I’m the resident Romney basher; maybe Foxmarks matches me though :). I’m really not THAT pedantic, though lord knows it is the great vice of my type.

    Well, actually communism and lesser variants of far leftism are the great vices of my type. Any guesses what my type is? (Hint: starts with “a” and ends in “-cademics”).

  9. I first voted for president in 1972 and precisely once did I walk out of the presidential election booth feeling good about the vote. My politics were different then; I voted for Mondale and thought although he was a bit to the left of me that he’d make a good president and was a decent, admirable person.

    I voted Democratic until 2008. When Obama said that the chief quality he was looking for in a supreme court justice was “empathy” and shortly thereafter responded to Russia’s aggression against Georgia by calling for both sides to show restraint I knew I was going to have to vote Republican.

    For that matter, he ran a lousy campaign but I thought McCain was about as good as you’re going to get at that level of politics and he certainly is an admirable and heroic person.

  10. expat: You’re doing the same thing with this nonsense that Cain wasn’t interested in foreign policy. I have linked here in previous threads snippets from Cain’s pre-candidate times where he identified the threat of political Islam, for example.

    kolnai: I am happy to tag-team with you. There’s so much wrong with Romney I can’t bash it all myself.

    neo: Maybe people keep thinking the field was weak because we’ve allowed the job to become too large. The President is supposed manage the entire economy (including gas prices), provide care for the old and the sick, keep foreign bogeyman at bay, minister over nearly every personal choice in our domestic lives, and be an inspiring example for both our kids and oppressed masses around the globe. All before 9am.

    Our acquiescence to the modern bureaucratic state means we are essentially trying to elect a minor god. I say take it the opposite way. If the candidates can’t handle the job, maybe we need to trim the job description. The Constitution provides a nice model for a presidency that real people could fulfill.

  11. I will say the same thing as before. Instead of electing one President, have the first 6 people on the Presidential ballot become the President, Vice President, SecDef/SecState, no questions asked, no hearings required, no confirmations needed.

    They used to do this thing as well. Lincoln appointed a Democrat loyalists as his VP. Who then proceeded to veto every attempt by Republicans to fix the voting situation in the South. This caused a long enough delay for the KKK to change the votes of blacks and cause a resurrection of Democrat holds. In that case, it went badly. These days, it’s not like it would work worse than what we have now. Even if you gave the choice to a Republican like Bush 2 or McCain, who do you think they would pick? Many of them Democrats or allies of the same, like many many many people who we now know to be culturally allied with the Left, not America.

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