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MuellerBadener wrote:
Jindal is Great, but I don't know if he can win. Even as an LDS member, I've got say absolutely NO to Romney. The guy who said "used-car salesman' hit it right on the head. Whoever runs had better be good; I have resolved to never again vote fr the "Lesser of two evils". A candidate is either worthy of my vote or he is not. If none are, I'll vote for my wife and go home. I may not always like her stand, but I know I can live with her.:lol:
+1 here as well.
I'm one of a fairly small number of people who has actually ever raised his hand to sustain Romney to an LDS Church position. I was living in the Boston area while he was Stake President and I happily sustained him to that position. If he is ever called to be a general authority, I will happily sustain him there as well.
But I listened to the "debates" between him and Kennedy when he ran for Senate in about '94. I was never no so happy to vote absentee in Utah as after realizing there was real difference between those two men's stands.
I watched his campaign for governor; watched him support and push socialized health care. Saw him continue to attack guns as Mass remains one of the few States NOT to have shall issue permits to carry AND one of the few with a scary looking gun ban.
I saw him change his position on several issues just in time to court the conservative GOP delegates. I was as disgusted as anyone could be by the extent to which religious bigotry--rather than a real examination of the issues--worked against him in some areas.
But one of the few areas where he did NOT materially change his prior positions was on RKBA. He REMAINS fairly hostile to RKBA.
This is one active LDS member who simply cannot support Romney for any public position where he will have influence over my RKBA. He would make a great Sec of Treasury. Maybe even some kind of cabinet position over economic policies.
But unless and until he convinces me he REALLY supports my RKBA, the only way I could ever vote for him is to keep someone far worse from winning. And since I live in GOP safe Utah, it is unlikely my vote--in general election at least--is ever going to be the deciding factor. So it is likely to be a vote for a third party, or my wife, if it ever comes down to Romney vs another gun grabber who happens to belong to a different party.
Charles