Wednesday, December 12, 2007



National Review Pulls The Trigger

Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Unlike some other candidates in the race, Romney is a full-spectrum conservative: a supporter of free-market economics and limited government, moral causes such as the right to life and the preservation of marriage, and a foreign policy based on the national interest.

Romney is an intelligent, articulate, and accomplished former businessman and governor. At a time when voters yearn for competence and have soured on Washington because too often the Bush administration has not demonstrated it, Romney offers proven executive skill. He has demonstrated it in everything he has done in his professional life, and his tightly organized, disciplined campaign is no exception. He himself has shown impressive focus and energy.

More than the other primary candidates, Romney has President Bush’s virtues and avoids his flaws. His moral positions, and his instincts on taxes and foreign policy, are the same. But he is less inclined to federal activism, less tolerant of overspending, better able to defend conservative positions in debate, and more likely to demand performance from his subordinates.

The article also discusses the other candidates' faults and strengths.

I'm a little weary of Republicans who do not hold victory as their number 1 concern. There is no greater issue than keeping the Democrats out of the White House. Viability is my number 1 issue.

4 comments:

SkyePuppy said...

I was riding to a Christmas party with a friend from church and her friend from church, who I've only recently got to know. And the new friend said that she could never vote for a Mormon.

So I told her about our previous Congressman, who was a Mormon, and how all the issues Christians care about (family issues, life, etc) are the same ones Mormons care about, and how he always voted the way I wanted him to.

Then she said she'd have to look at Romney and maybe give him a chance. Whew!

Malott said...

Skyepuppy,

I love pragmatists who do the Lord's work.

You are a lovely woman with a fine mind. Rare.

SkyePuppy said...

My dear Chris,

And I can spell, too!

Tsofah said...

Romney's ok, but I still like Fred better. He's actually got possible solutions to problems written out! (Now, THAT's Chutzpah!) smile