Romney is the greatest champion of free market economics since Reagan. On the social front, he has a moderate temperament but is a tolerant conservative, if you will.
No, there are people more resolute in their belief that the market should be free to do anything that it can to anyone vulnerable.
He sold out to the Religious Right so that he could be nominated, and if he ignores them now, then (1) his support among them falters, and (2) few moderates believe him.
Two hours in five months since Romney had the nomination all but wrapped up?
How would you know? This was all consistent with what Romney had said and done while campaigning.
So he will say anything to shore up a constituency, even if he knows that he can't deliver on the promise. Such is a false oath. The part of the Bible (Exodus 20) that contains the Ten Commandments, valid in Judaism and all branches of Christianity (that includes Mormonism) , clearly enumerates the making of an oath in vane as a serious breach of ethics not to be made.
"Twenty percent reduction in taxes"? The bulk of the benefit actually goes to those who pay federal income taxes. But big tax cuts imply revenue losses, and eventually the government has to find ways to raise taxes. If the rich-and-powerful are able to prevent any return to higher tax rates, then we might get stuck a national sales tax on all goods and services, including food, rent, and interest? Maybe that would be one way to support a national health service, but all in all most people would pay more in taxes with no increase in services. Right-wingers who cast President Obama as a 'deficit monster' reply upon a ludicrous interpretation of the long-debunked Laffer curve that holds that somewhere around 15% taxes, reductions in income destroy the tax base.
President Obama put Dubya's wars for profit on the budget instead of concealing them, and of course any economic downturn implies bigger spending by government and reduced tax revenues. Such was held against FDR.
About all that Romney would retain is the mandate that people buy overpriced health insurance from a tight cartel that can gouge at will.
Want to repeal and replace Obamacare? Then offer something better while Barack Obama is still President -- like Medicare for all.
Glass-Steagall does need to be reimposed.
