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richardhutnik on 02 July 2012
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SamuelRSmith said:
Kasz216 said:

True, but he did go way farther right than 2008 Romney, who himself was way farther right then 2006 Govonor Romney.

Really, whether or not he would move to the left after being elected depends on why you think he wants to be elected.

If it's to unleash his view of the country on the government, you'd have to expect, like Obama there would be SIGNIFICANT Shifting.

If it's to just want to be president, it's up in the air.

If it was corrution/bribery he'd be running for senate.  President seems like it'd be too much trouble.


Based on his actions, it seems he's just one of those people who crave power. Unfortunately, this means that he'll never legalize or deregulate anything of importance (outside exceptional key election issues, like Obamacare), because that will be a reduction in his power.

And you get back to why I am not as optimistic as you.  What I see the GOP doing is running candidates who shift further and further out of the mainstream, to get the nomination, and then build product they are marketing, which most people won't be happy with, or excited about.  It is, "Well the Democrats are bad, so need ANY option".  This shift Romney has made, got him the nomination, but risks not getting him the election.  It puts him in the same category as John Kerry as being a flip-flopper.  And the policies he proposes aren't really different from what GW Bush had at all.   Romney is also a a loser, the way McCain was.  Both lost the last primary, but then built political base that enabled them to roll off key states.  The candidates, in other words, aren't the top choices of the GOP, but the ones who lost prior.

And Obama seems to be a candidate to facilitate the sliding further and further out of the mainstream. Obama's proposals are right out of the GOP playbook, like individual mandates, and tax cuts for the middle class.  The GOP ends up opposing policies they had.  The are becoming less and less mainstream.  And then Obama runs wiht Bush foreign policy, and also infringing upon civil liberties the way GW did.