Before you Super Tuesday voters hold your noses and punch that square next to John McCain’s name on your touchscreen, do me one favor. Read this. Twice.
You may not like Mitt Romney. To be perfectly frank, the guy doesn’t do much for me either. He’s not terribly conservative.
But there are two things about him that do work for me. First, he’s not a power-grubbing backstabber who thinks he can crash through the Constitution like a high school football team breaking the banner as the hit the field for Homecoming. Second, he can be convinced that conservative values are good values to get behind.
Some folks like to call Romney a flip-flopper and just perhaps he is. What I have seen of his history is a guy who knows the value of really listening to people when they have another way of looking at an issue and changing his mind when he hears a better argument. Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but over the years he has moved closer to conservatism. John McCain, on the other hand, has been moving purposefully in the other direction. There’s no way that you can read Bill Quick’s piece and think that he would be anything but an unmitigated disaster for the notions of limited government, the First or Second Amendments, or your tax bill.
So, it’s up to you guys. You are the ones who will take us a very long way to deciding whether most of your fellow conservatives vote for a Republican or whoever else is left who is not named John McCain.
