Mitt Romney seems to be trying to sew the seeds of common sense within his party, insisting that they don't hope their president fails. Here's The Hill:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said Wednesday that Republicans shouldn’t oppose President Obama as a reflex and should praise him when he succeeds.
Romney praised Obama for not pulling troops from Iraq haphazardly and for going after terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also said Obama has been good at talking tough to the struggling auto industry.
In my opinion Romney is the clear Republican front-runner for 2012. Sarah Palin is simply too dumb and Bobby Jindal is too young to want to put his cards on the table against Obama. And unless Obama starts another war under false pretenses, politicizes the justice department and lets a city drown, I don't think Romney will pose much of a challenge.
Nevertheless it's a smart political move for Romney to inject some sense of balance into his radicalized party. Luckily he's a private citizen and not an official, so he doesn't have to channel Rush Limbaugh. His challenge will be to remain visible over the next four years; by 2012 he'll have been out of any position of power for 6 years.
Since the earliest moments of the 2008 presidential race I found Mitt Romney to be a dishonest sleezebag -- the type of man without any conceivable political principles, wildly inconsistent on his views and his record of the truth, who rides the wave of time and will say anything he needs to to get through the moment.
I don't even know why Republicans trust him; he used to be pro-choice until he began to run for president in '07 and in 2003 as Governor of Massachusetts he signed into law the first ever government-sponsored health care bill in US history. Then he campaigned as a staunch conservative on all issues. Does this sound like a man who genuinely stands for anything?
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