re: #139 HappyWarrior

Honestly, I don’t know how to feel about the guy. I think he could have been perhaps a voice of center-right Republicanism but his ambitions I guess have gotten the better of him. What’s frustrating for me is to see how he went from someone boasting that he’d be better for gay rights than Ted Kennedy to someone who now has an ad done by Gary Bauer accusing the president of forcing gay marriage on the country. As a socially liberal voter, that bothers me especially knowing that Mitt’s own father took a lot of flack both politically and religiously when he decided to support the civil rights movement. It just shows that appealing to the base is more important to Mitt than doing the right thing. And you see this with many issues with Mitt if you ask me.

I honestly thought that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney would be a healthy change for the GOP. Someone who was an outlier from the religious right, had compromised with a Democratic legislature, and wasn’t caustically social conservative.

He’s run away from the center, he’s indulged every single nut except Todd Akin (including everyone that agrees with Todd Akin), and decided that racial dog-whistles are just fucking dandy. To say nothing of his veep, his spent his Congressional career obsessed with personhood and rubber stamping Bush’s taxes increases.

I’m done with the dude.