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Romney Gets National Review’s Vote

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Posted on Dec 11, 2007
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At least one thing’s sure:  Romney meets the informal (yet strangely durable) height “requirement” for the presidency.

Much like actors around Oscar time, presidential candidates may pooh-pooh the value of media endorsements but they’ll quietly eat their hearts out if those approbations go to someone else.  Thanks to a nod from the National Review, whose editors tapped him as the “most conservative viable candidate” of this season’s Republican crop, Mitt Romney is feeling loved, at least for the moment.


National Review Online:

Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Unlike some other candidates in the race, Romney is a full-spectrum conservative: a supporter of free-market economics and limited government, moral causes such as the right to life and the preservation of marriage, and a foreign policy based on the national interest. While he has not talked much about the importance of resisting ethnic balkanization—none of the major candidates has—he supports enforcing the immigration laws and opposes amnesty. Those are important steps in the right direction.

Uniting the conservative coalition is not enough to win a presidential election, but it is a prerequisite for building on that coalition. Rudolph Giuliani did extraordinary work as mayor of New York and was inspirational on 9/11. But he and Mike Huckabee would pull apart the coalition from opposite ends: Giuliani alienating the social conservatives, and Huckabee the economic (and foreign-policy) conservatives. A Republican party that abandoned either limited government or moral standards would be much diminished in the service it could give the country.

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By Jeff, December 11, 2007 at 8:50 pm Link to this comment
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Romney #1) The Business Genius
Romney #2) The guy with actual executive experience
Romney #3) The intelligent and articulate one.
Romney #4) The turnaround expert (Olympics and others)
Romney #5) The one who is loyal to his family
Romney #6) All of the Above

Oh, I’m sorry, I get it now!  You’re making a clever remark about the fact that he has changed his opinion on issues.  That’s just horrible isn’t it?  I’m sure none of the other candidates have ever done that.

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By troublesum, December 11, 2007 at 8:32 pm Link to this comment

There are about six Mitt Romney’s.  The National Review didn’t say which one they were endorsing.

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