My days here in the Canadian heartland have been filled to the edge but by night I have been accompanied by Mitt Rommey’s No Apology which he (unlike Obama) actually wrote himself and which was published in 2010. If you have any doubts that he is as Ronald Reaganesque as the great Reagan himself, read it. You should read it anyway. I have not finished it all but have gone through enough to know that Romney is about as good as it possibly gets.
Since almost everything you know about Romney comes through his enemies and opponents, whether from the Democrats, the media or from those who sought the nomination in his place, to find such a concentration of good sense and sound policy was, I must tell you, astonishing. I will include only this as an example of what Romney stands for and how he thinks. It comes from his chapter on energy where he is discussing the four suggested means of dealing with carbon “pollution”:
The third alternative is a direct oil or carbon tax. The tax would indeed stimulate oil efficiencies and investments in oil substitutes, but it would also fatten government, harm employers and employees, and hurt consumers. It’s a regressive form of taxation that would penalize those least able to shoulder its burden. It’s a nonstarter. [p 262]
What can I tell you. Read it if you can get your hands on it.
Thanks for the tip Steve. Proud to say that getting in first means I snapped up a copy at a brilliant price!
Steve D
21 Jun 12 at 12:26 am
Oh, and for anyone else, try booko
Steve D
21 Jun 12 at 12:27 am
No he is an unprincipled soulless douchebag.
Les Majesty
21 Jun 12 at 1:08 am
He’s so unprincipled and soulless that he set up a private command centre to track down an employee’s missing kid!
Obama, at the time, was a member of the Choom Gang, and later hung out with urban terrorists.
Fisky
21 Jun 12 at 1:13 am
I haven’t read it but any of the conservative pundits in the US who presumably have read it just look at his actions.
They think he isn’t a values/conviction politician like Santorum but ephemerally transits to positions perceived to be popular at the time.
Indeed his history resolutely evidences that.
The facile assertion that Romney is cut from the same cloth as Ronaldus Maximums can confidently be ascribed merely to the lip service of an insane Romney sycophant.
JamesK
21 Jun 12 at 1:43 am
Is that the same Ronaldus, the anti-nuclear peacenik, who signed a pro-abortion law as Governor of California?
Fisky
21 Jun 12 at 2:28 am
By the way, in case anyone hasn’t notice, JamesK is STILL bent out of shape over Santorum’s inevitable doom.
Fisky
21 Jun 12 at 2:28 am
Read his book JamesK. Don’t let pundits control your mind.
Zatara
21 Jun 12 at 2:32 am
Unfortunately, James is incapable of independent thought. He thinks that providing a link to 1,000 words of someone else’s work is an “argument”.
Fisky
21 Jun 12 at 2:32 am
James, I just re-read your post. Apparently you are bothered that Romney isn’t Santorum, which is true. Then you bring Reagan into it for some reason I can’t detect.
Reagan is dead and so is Santorum as far as this election is concerned.
Deal with it.
Zatara
21 Jun 12 at 3:03 am
James: Santorum is a great guy. As anyone who read my comments here during the primaries knows, I liked him more than I did Romney – and I was plenty ticked off by some of the more obnoxious Romniacs out there.
However, Rick’s not the guy who’s going to show Obama the door. Romney’s our only chance in that regard.
Admire Santorum, keep him and his lovely family in your thoughts & prayers, but if you want to see Obama gone you’ve got to get behind Romney. 100%.
And that’s all there is to it.
sdog
21 Jun 12 at 4:02 am
Thanks, Les. Your reverse commendation is genuinely helpful. I’m evaluating whether Romney is a chance or a pretender. Everything I hear from the States tells me Mitt is the man and the Demolitionist establishment is fucked. If the left’s worst sledge is that he is “soulless”, it tells me that zombies everywhere are seriously shitting themselves. It was always only about the economy, Les, I’m sure you’ll agree.
Tom
21 Jun 12 at 7:29 am
Anyone But Obama.
That’s all we need to know.
Winston SMITH
21 Jun 12 at 8:45 am
I see Fisky is proving that he is cut from the insane cloth but then we already knew that.
I’ve already said I’m impressed with Romney in this campaign.
I will do everything I can to ensure his victory in Nov.
I already have indicated that I think he will win and more likely than not by a wide margin.
To do that all he need do is play a straight bat, in cricket parlance.
It will have nothing to do with anything intrinsically inspirational about Romney.
I’m not a Santorum fan except that I thought he was the best candidate in a truly depressing primary field.
I wanted Ryan.
I think Romney’s Presidency will be successful because I think the Tea Party will ensure the Senate and House conditions for him to do the right thing.
But to compare Romney – a man with famously no particular ideological bent – to RR is simply nutty and arguably deeply offensive to the memory of Reagan.
JamesK
21 Jun 12 at 9:44 am
James, nearly every paragraph of that comment began with “I” or “I’m”. But anyway, you are still a Romney hater and have have got to let go.
Fisky
21 Jun 12 at 10:19 am
Show evidence of me being “a Romney hater” you fruit-loop, Fisky.
JamesK
21 Jun 12 at 10:54 am
$1.79 on from Amazon.com on Kindle.
Michael Warren
21 Jun 12 at 12:12 pm
Thanks for reminding me, a few people have recommended it to me now. American conservative blogger Half-Sigma is also quite fond of it:
http://www.halfsigma.com/2012/01/mitt-romneys-book.html
Clyde
21 Jun 12 at 1:44 pm
Artur Davis, former Congressman from Alabama, former Democrat, former nominator of Barack Obama for President, currently a Republican writes a very intelligent column on Reagan and Romney:
Reagan Would Still Win
JamesK
21 Jun 12 at 11:12 pm