I'LL BE VOTING FOR......
As most of you know by now, I was a Duncan Hunter supporter. Unfortunately his campaign never took off. Almost immediately after Hunter dropped out, Fred Thompson dropped out. This leaves me with five candidates to vote for OR to vote my conscience and still cast a vote for Hunter knowing it was a wasted vote.
I contemplated doing that to show the Republicans I will support a strong conservative candidate. However, I did some thinking on the issue. Sen. John McCain has been picking up momentum. It is my opinion that he has to be stopped.
Why on Earth are Republicans voting for a guy who teams up with liberal Democrats on policy more often than he teams up with Republicans? McCain/Feingold, McCain/Lieberman, McCain/Kennedy, McCain/Edwards....ALL bad bills....All proposed by McCain and a liberal Democrat. Remember the Gang of 14? The idiots who blocked good originalist judges from making it to the higher courts....another liberal move brought to you by John McCain. He must be stopped.
So who's left that I can vote for? There's Giuliani, who most likely will be dropping out of the race now that he has come in a distant third in Florida. There's Huckabee, who says all the right things but has a record that goes against most of what he is saying now. There's Ron Paul, who is 100% right on half the issues and 100% wrong on the other half. And then there's Mitt Romney.
I looked back at the editorial/blog I wrote in May of last year. My opinion of Romney then was that he had potential, but he seemed too polished. I said, "He looks Presidential. He sounds Presidential. But so did Bill Clinton. Now, I'm not saying Mitt's politics are that of Bill Clinton. I am saying his style is." Now remember this was very early on in the campaign. However, to some extent I still agree with this assessment. He does look presidential. He does sound presidential. Comparing him to Bill Clinton had absolutely NOTHING to do with policy issues as I stated. Love him or hate him, Bill Clinton was great with people. He was good at answering questions. He was smooth. He had an answer for anything you could throw at him. He wasn't at a loss for words very often. It was in this sense that I compared Romney to Clinton. Thinking on it, I wonder if that is such a bad thing that Romney has some of these characteristics as well. I don't think it is. He is obviously well versed in the issues and therefore can speak on them articulately. He has tremendous experience in the private sector. His record, while not 100% conservative, is much more conservative than that of the other candidates. His grasp of the economy is second to none of any of the candidates. I believe that his leadership skills are such that he will bring highly skilled and intelligent people into his administration to work with him on issues he's already strong on as well as issues that he needs a little work with.
For these reasons, I will be voting for Gov. Mitt Romney on Super Tuesday.
-Trent
