Who thinks Mitt Romney will be a good president and why?

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1. I am throwing my support behind Mitt Romney because: I think Mitt Romney is the closest candidate to Reagan. He didn't raise taxes as governor of MA, he balanced the budget, and he cut lots of wasteful spending--with a democratic controlled congress. He has run several successful businesses and the SLC Winter Olympics in 2002. He's not a Washington insider. Although he has changed his opinion (which everyone is entitled to) he is currently pro-life. I think Romney will be strong during the war on terror. Some people are scared of his religions beliefs--but we are not voting for a chief theologian, we're voting for the chief executive.
2. I like him but he's my second choice. i'd prefer thompson.
3. Being from Massachusetts, I watched the man abandon the state to start campaigning for president in about 2003. I saw him ascend to the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association and then LOSE governorships including not one reelection of a Republican governor. I saw him run around the country using Massachusetts as the butt of his own jokes - the very same state that he judged to be the best place to make a lucrative career and start and raise a family. I saw him change his politics from being pro-choice to anti. I saw him suppress stem-cell research such that some of the most promising young researchers and companies actually left the state. I saw him campaign on his business Rolodex, which he promised to use to bring businesses and jobs to Massachusetts - and then watched as businesses, jobs, and then population dropped in the state during each of his four years as governor. Now I see him playing Jack Bauer with his let's-double-Guantanamo remark, playing Rambo with his unabashed support-the-surge stand, and playing the Ugly American with his intention (revealed in a campaign strategy document leaked early this year) to campaign on the proposition that France is the enemy of the United States. Yeah, he'll be a swell president. EDIT to David G. - He balanced the budget because it is unconstitutional in Massachusetts, as in many other states, to run a deficit. Michael Dukakis balanced the budget too, and made as equally idiotic a claim that he was therefore a financial guru.
4. Don't you mean to say "would be"... since I doubt he could be elected.
5. I am a registered Democrat, but I do think Romney would make a pretty good President. I know this country isn't a business to be run, but the lessons learned from running and turning around businesses in invaluable. To Jay Lenno he explained the principals of about understanding a problem, bringing in the right people for the job, defining a goal, and then putting in the work. He has done this in business and while Governor of MA. He's also a man of high morals and you can see what kind of man they are by looking at their family. He isn't afraid of evolving or changing. I personally don't think he's "flip-flopped", but has evolved. I certainly have changed my views on things over time, why shouldn't a politician? If he were going back-and-forth and back again, then I'd have a bigger problem. He is also likable and well spoken. I know looks and stuff don't matter, but I think it's important the face of our country is presentable and can speak and build relationships, which I think Romney could. As you stated, it doesn't matter what religion any one is. I could vote for a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian or any other belief as long as I can trust the man. I think Romney is a trustable individual. That all being said, I am still not sure where my vote will go; there's a long time until elections and Romney certainly has a tough hill to climb. I certainly would be scared to see either Guiliani or McCain in the White House.
6. I think he would be a GOOD president
7. From what i know about him, I think he will be at least competent, maybe better than that.
8. Last time I checked , we were at war with the Taliban. Why should we let one of their cousins inti the White House? This one happened 150 years ago but I think its still relevant because Mitt Romneys church pardoned a terrorist mass murderer of Americans. It was September 11, 1857. A wagon train of 160 settlers on their way to California was massacred by a bunch of Mormons dressed in Indian clothes. 17 children under the age of 8 were spared and lived to tell their story. 1st. They dressed as Indians but after five days they changed tactics. 2nd. Then they went a bit away ,dressed back into normal clothes and acted like the Rescue Party who had negotiated a deal with the"Indians". 3rd, Then confiscated all the guns as part of the deal for "saving" the travellers and Mormon dissidents( who were the reason for the attack in the first place). 4th. Took everybody off a mile or so and shot them all. 2 men got away but were eventually tracked down and killed a day or so later. 5th. Took the 17 children they had not killed back with them to Salt Lake City. 6th. Got away with it. After a publicized trial, with the childrens own testimony admitted into the court, only 1 man was convicted and shot, John D. Lee. ( pardoned by Church 1960) It ended up being called the Mountain Meadows Massacre. The first time in U.S. history that U.S. citizens were massacred on U.S. soil by religious wackos. This event is even more significant because the total U.S. population at the time was much smaller.(I dont know the exact numbers, maybe only 30 million or so) In todays numbers it would be around 1400 dead