Vote for WHO? And WHY?

"[I]f Mitt wins the nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy.

For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you to keep four things in mind:  Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year,  Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever  we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least  one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court -- in addition to hundreds  of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.

 If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something dangerous ." 

-columnist Andrew McCarthy

Z:  Think what you will about Romney, he won't be appointing Elena Kagan types of judges, that's for sure.

z

On Romney.... please weigh in

An acquaintance of mine emailed this to me...Her husband has researched Romney very diligently and read his books and she wrote the information below from what he's told her in response to this POST where I "spoke for Romney":

It (Romney Care) affected only 8% of the  state population and these people were using the emergency room which drives all healthcare costs up drastically. They had no healthcare and democrats saw nothing wrong with what they were doing.  Everyone else kept their current private healthcare and these people were given a private insurance plan with basic services.  It ended up saving Mass. money but the next governor was a democrat who enhanced the plan to include 'nice to have stuff' since it was at taxpayer expense. I agree with Z that Romney should say deliver the speech she wrote for him.  He is a numbers guy who finished in the top 5th of his class at Harvard magna cum laude with two degrees; MBA and a law degree at the same time. He gave away all his inherited money to charity and mostly to Brigham Young University to establish  the George W. Romney Institute of Public Management,  he took no salary while governor of the state.  He doesn't have the charisma of many politicians, but he is a smart man on merit. Unlike Obama who gets the "brilliant" title based on heresay by the media alone, certainly not on results, and we still have no idea what grades he got.   I do believe if Romney is the last man standing he will make a good president who will govern more conservatively than he could in liberal Mass. surrounded by democrats.  

I think he didn't take a salary either when the Olympics fell apart due to corruption and he was called to save the games. Yes he asked for earmarks from the feds but the majority of that was for security purposes which came after 9/11.  Because the Olympics - is a world wide event the feds usually contribute some amount of money to all Olympics but security after the attack became extensive and expensive.

 

I think this information and conclusion is worthy of consideration.   What do you think?

z