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Why not Romney?

My main issue with Romney is not his mormonism. Some castigate him for being gullible, but having been a member of the mormon church and worn the sacred underwear I am not in a place to be too critical on that front. It is not his religion that is at issue, although it is a false belief system and a cult. It is his inability to develop and hold to core convictions. Will the Mitt Romney we see today on the campaign trail be the same man who nominates a Supreme Court justice if elected? His past is too full of vacillation to have any certainty of that.

Romney strikes me as an empty suit and a weathervane. He looks pretty on TV, looks presidential but has no heartfelt convictions. He changes his stance on vital issues, not in measured steps but 180 degrees to suit the race he is running. He doesn't seem to run on what he believes but on what makes people smile and applaud. He is hardly the only politician to do so, but it seems epidemic with him and at least the other candidates have some basic core beliefs.

Romney has found himself under scrutiny because his mile wide and inch deep candidacy was in the lead and as such drew the most attention. He has wilted under the scrutiny and now is turning the attack dogs loose, a sign of desperation this close to Christmas and New Hampshire/Iowa.

The Concord (N.H.) Monitor has given an anti-endorsement of Romney or anyone but Romney endorsement. Here is an excerpt:

If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core.

It should be clear that Romney will say and do anything for the sake of political expediency. Romney accused McCain of "failing Reagan 101", but President Reagan held to some basic core beliefs: smaller government, lower taxes and a strong national defense to deter the Soviets. Unlike Reagan, Romney has no core beliefs. It is he, not McCain, that fails Reagan 101.