I am rather baffled by Mitt Romney and what he really stands for... any thoughts?

He stands for enriching himself and his cronies. His "economic plan" is a pack of glittering generalities that contains no specifics. He will be a puppet of right wingers and huge corporate interests who continue to promulgate the myth that if ONLY we would further enrich the top 1%, the money and jobs would magically "trickle down" to the rest of the citizens.

He stands for keeping his tax records secret, his financial records from the Utah Olympics secret, and his emails from his tenure as Massachusetts governor a secret.

He stands for a confrontational foreign policy, even though he personally sat out the Vietnam war as a Mormon missionary assigned to the rigors of proselytizing in Paris, France.

I love it how conservative right wingers are all up for getting into wars but did not take the opportunity to serve when they had the chance. Chickenhawks, the whole lot of 'em.

I'm speaking as a Canadian here, but my understanding is that his campaign is kind of similar to how our Prime Minister won.

Right wingers often successfully style themselves as better stewards of the economy than left wingers. So Romney will be the fatherly hand that will judiciously cut unnecessary government spending while keeping taxes low - especially on the wealthy as low taxes on the wealthy will encourage them to invest in the US economy. This is hand in hand with his social conservatism.

I of course think the above is absolute horse **** and he's a rich ******* looking out for the interests of other rich ********. However, that's the line I've been fed.

I think he has the election anyway - the more one sees and learns of Romney the more disturbing the picture becomes.

Obama is a lier?.and not Romney?..Funny how the ultra-conservatives on EP constantly make statements like this without ever offering any proof......We know who the big lier is in this presidential race, and it's not President Obama..........
Even Republicans like "The American Conservative's" Daniel Larison wonder why Romney lies so much, concluding that the former Massachusetts governor is "so contemptuous of the people he tells lies to he never thinks he will be found out."..http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/01/12/mitt-romneys-lies/......
There are many other credible sources that Romney is a lier including "Mitt Romney: A man of falsehoods"..http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-enviable-ability-to-lie/....Eighty verifiable Romney lies at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/06/1089327/All-of-romneys-lies/......"Mitt Romney lies all the time" (Video)..http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/rachel-maddow-mitt-romney-lies-all-the-time/....As far as califdom's statement about John Sununu's quote about "Obama endorsed by Hugo Chavez", I guess califdom hasn't read "Hugo Chavez::Obama is 'a clown' and 'an embarrassment'...http://www.theblaze.com/stories/hugo-chavez-obama-is-a-clown-and-an-embarrassment/....By the way, Sununo used to be George H.W. Bush's chief-of-staff, who "was eventually fired because he used government jets for personal travel, constantly"..http://wonkette.com/478584/george-h-w-bush-flunky-still-mad-about-democrats-and-their-weed/

you are not alone....

Are you crystal clear on what oblunder stands for ?
John Sununu sums up the 2012 race with a single observation:


“Obama gets endorsed by Hugo Chavez and Mitt Romney gets endorsed by Lech Walesa.”

The choice couldn’t be more clear.

He should keep his ***** mouth shut!

to tell the truth I am also.....I do know he believes in free enterprise, marriage and the morman faith but after that it gets a bit muddled. Most of the problem has been he hasn't actually stood up and defined himself and he is allowing others to do that for him....What I'm really baffled by is all the people that are still for Obama when it is clear what he is and what he stands for..But I guess some people will believe anything they are told without actually checking the facts.......Anyone will be better then him in office(even mickey mouse)....

My thought is that he is a greedy racist snob and he needs a good ol fashioned passionate *** whoopin, this country will be very bad off with this guy in office no wonder your baffled the guy contradicts himself constantly sometimes even in the same breath

For Romney it is all about ambition. I am from massachusetts and he fooled everyone with his accomplishments in business. He was governor when clinton was president He only was in mass. for two years. Honestly he spent more time out of state campaging for president and other Republicans so that he could use them to support him for president. Inspite of all that traveling he still had trouble with endorsements.
He served one term as governor because he would never have won re-election. In a time of national prosperity mass. was 47th in job growth. He has now changed his mind on most of the hot trigger issues and downplay his so call health plan. The only thing that he added to that was a mandatory tax. He raised fees over taxes balanced the state budget. Balancing a budget by a state that makes it a law to do so is a joke when a governor claims that he did it alone.