To some extent, Romney gets a bum rap for liberal tendencies... not totally, but to some extent.
If you're governor of Massachusetts, with a far left legislature, you don't get to choose between what is and what you want. You get to choose between what is and something else that is. And those choices are defined for you by a group that doesn't see the world through conservative eyes.
Yeah, I wish he had a record that I like more. And he has voluntarily done some things I don't like. It's still partly a bum rap.
But he is also an extremely competent, data driven senior executive. That's something we haven't seen for a while.
With his business consulting experience, his first reflex is likely to be analyzing the situation for misapplied or nonproductive resources. One could hope this would result in a large number of federal employees being switched from producing regulations in the public sector to creating wealth in the private sector.
Last edited by denton; 11/01/11.
