I attended a Romney for President meeting last night to hear Josh Romney talk about his dad and the campaign. I had actually made up my mind last fall that Romney’s the guy. But now it’s time to get a little more involved. The stakes for Alaska are high now that it’s a two-man race between Gov. Romney and Sen. McCain. Here’s a cell-phone shot of Josh Romney and Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell making their remarks. It was a pleasant meeting with a good turnout.
Gov. Romney lines up most closely with my conservative values and I’m impressed with his executive experience and success in business and as governor of Massachusetts, where he governed to the Right in America’s most liberal state. That takes tremendous political skill.
Here’s why it’s important for Alaskans to nominate Romney delegates rather than McCain. Alaskans raising a family here need a thriving resource economy to provide well-paying jobs so their children can live here, too. Let’s take a close look at what Sen. McCain says about Alaska’s resources, specifically ANWR, on January 16, 2008:
As far as ANWR is concerned, I don’t want to drill in the Grand Canyon, and I don’t want to drill in the Everglades. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world.
One has to wonder if he’s ever actually been there. Barron’s opined Stalin would see it as “a great place for a gulag.”
Sen. McCain has a lot of strikes against him, McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Act, The Gang of 14, and now McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act which would cap and trade greenhouse gas emissions. He voted against the Bush tax cuts. I have a hard time getting past this record. Yes, he’s a true hero and great in military policy but there’s so much more to being president.
So for conservative voters, in my opinion, Romney’s the guy. Gov. Huckabee has no chance of winning the nomination. At this point in the race, a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain since it splits the conservative vote to make it easier for McCain to win.
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Susan Kishner
I agree w/you about McCain, he is a liberal conservative. The main thing he’s got going, and about the only thing in my opinion, is that he has served his country, and mine, honorably and valiantly.
However, since this is a caucus vote I feel that I need to vote for the individual who I feel will best lead our country. I do not feel that voting for one just because he has the best chance for beating another, at this stage of the game, is the right thing to do. This may sound like throwing my vote away but I look at it more as sending a message.
Personally I am looking at who will do the best for the U.S.A as a whole not just Alaska. I’ll know just who I’m voting for on Tuesday but right now all I can say is that the one I feel would do the best by this country has stepped out of the race.
BTW - I won’t be voting for the Dems by any means at all.
I understand your perspective but respectfully disagree that ‘at this stage of the game’ we shouldn’t be making a choice because it looks like one candidate has a better chance to win than another. It may very well be over Tuesday night. Only McCain and Romney are in the running to with genuine chances to win.
A vote for Huckabee or Thompson or Hunter right now is the same as a vote for McCain because it splits the conservative vote and awards delegates to McCain. It is indeed time to be pragmatic and vote for conservative values and that would be for Romney.
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