In a way this is kinda cool, because I got to vote against Romney once already in the primary, and if he is the VP on McCain’s ticket, I’ll get to vote against him again in November! Awesome.

I tend to have a hard time with candidates who lack sincerety and conviction, and Romney leads that class.

The support of the ideologies on both sides of the issue in question do have a value in society. In my opinion that value is a very large negative value as candidates waste time and effort pontificating about something they know won’t change. Moronic voters who examine only (or even primarily) that issue exacerbate the problem by electing politicians who in fact have an agenda completely disconnected from the platform they run on. It would be better if there were a mechanism to declare a truce and have candidates talk about things that they might have some effect on.

I think that Romney had crafted his words with care and wanted to say exactly what he meant. While I agree that the sight of him reading from notes was a little strange, I think McCain looked far stranger standing to the side and grinning.

I thought just the opposite, that Romney looked stiff and robotic (not Al Gore robotic though), while McCain looked more relaxed (not completely relaxed though, like his heartburn was acting up a bit). Why did Romney need to read his speech? It should have been easy for him to just get up there and talk about why he was supporting McCain.

I am sure that my opinions are colored by what I already thought about each man.

Support of an ideology can have value in society regardless of whether or not it brings about a change in law.

jjohnson,

Romney was forthright about both his disagreement with McCain and his reasons for supporting him.

cg douglass,

The one little qualifier that your twist on my comment lacks is that those who support the war effort (as it stands now) generally have a vested interest in saving human lives. To pull up stakes would mean a blood bath tenfold the size of the war.

what arJ said. If there was a significant number of Dems with Dan’s tunnel vision of liberalism, they would be in a similar place, but the research shows there aren’t.

What a class act. I am proud to say that I supported Mitt Romney.

.
A class act? Just weeks ago he was disagreeing with McCain on almost every issue and saying he wasn’t a true conservative. Now he’s supporting him. You may see it as a class act, but he’s just a good little soldier doing what he’s supposed to for the Republican party, even if it goes against what he believed in the near past (hmm, have we heard that about Romney before?).

He’s not a class act, he’s a slimy politician doing what politicians do. I’ll be just as disappointed if Edwards supports Clinton, two other politicians that agreed on few issues.

People that believe that abortion is the ultimate political issue are what have the GOP in this mess to begin with. Republicans laugh all the way to the bank with the militant anti-abortion vote knowing all along that no progress will be made either way. The way these voters are shamefully exploited for their votes while the party elite look down on them as useful idiots is one of the uglier aspects of US politics.