What, exactly, would Romney do as POTUS?!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The average voter is completely sick of partisanship. This is perhaps best exemplified by the recent surge in the number of registered independents. Those independents want a stand-up guy who is a competent executive that is not obsessed with playing politics 24/7. Romney fits the bill to a T.

Most people do not want ANYBODY's idea of a messiah in the next POTUS. They just want a competent executive who will help get the economy back on track while maintaining American prestige.

this debate is getting nowhere...once again, I don't consider Romney to a non-partisan or a moderate, rather I consider him a 100% pro-Romney. He's trying to win by not leading.

How would you have governed in Mass jmfcst?  Just veto everything, get nothing of your own passed, and have each and every one of your vetoes overridden?  Mittens managed Mass in a fiscally sound manner by the way.

I agree! So why is he not proud of his record and ignores his time as Governor?

Where does this come from? This notion that Romney is running away from his record in MA or even running away from his healthcare law? I have never seen it, especially not the in the debate where he talked about 4 balanced budgets, 19 tax cuts, emergency powers to cut spending from a Dem legislature, etc etc.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Go look at his website. Mittens has a tax plan, a boat plan, a plan as to the judges he will appoint, and so forth. His planks are as detailed as anyone else's.

Does Romney even know what's on his website?  Cain sure didn't. 

I want to hear it from the horses mouth, but the mouth only talks in platitudes, which I find very insulting.

"He didn't do active campaigning. He gave one single speech himself. Then his effort at 'campaigning' amounted to going around to the various newspapers and ensuring that it was printed accurately in all them. Whenever he was asked about a position, he would simply say 'Read the speech".

- paraphrase of Newt Gingrich on a FNC program in 2007, speaking favorably about Lincoln's campaigning in the 1860 election.

[anvi]

Looked at the website.  So, probably try to go through the process of repealing Obamacare, put up tort reform, block-grant Medicaid, lower corporate rates (didn't see mention of loopholes and deductions, ect.), repeal Dodd-Frank and Sarbannes-Oxly, overhaul NLRA, fire some federal workers and reduce the benefits of others, cut discretionary by 5%, lots of other generalities.  Didn't open the whole pdf, I get the idea.  Makes all the expected rounds, I guess.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Mitt Romney is not, as he currently stands, a moderate.  In any sense of the word.  Well, unless being a Republican who supports child labor laws suddenly qualifies you as a "moderate", now.  Jon Huntsman is the moderate hero in the race, not Romney.

I'd imagine he'd just pass typical Republican legislation.  What else, really?

[tpfkaw]

-Legalize gay marriage
-Repeal partial-birth abortion ban
-Repeal Obamacare, replace with single-payer health insurance
-Invade Iran

At least the jmfctses would get one out of four!

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Mitt Romney is not, as he currently stands, a moderate.  In any sense of the word.  Well, unless being a Republican who supports child labor laws suddenly qualifies you as a "moderate", now.  Jon Huntsman is the moderate hero in the race, not Romney.

I'd imagine he'd just pass typical Republican legislation.  What else, really?

Huntsman is no moderate. Like Hagel and Lugar, he's a right-wing Republican who is slightly more sane than the other members of his party.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I believe Romney would be a pragmatist... but in typical Romney style... it would vary by circumstance.

He'd get bullied by a hostile Congress (left or right), so he'd compromise up the yah-yah... the only circumstance we'd get ANY idea what a real Romney presidency would look like would be a compliant Congress, but I find that scenario to be unlikely.

[morgieb]

He'll start out as a moderate, then turn more conservative if he thinks that'll prevent a primary challenge.

[Penelope]

Romney would likely be the one to accept the more crazy ideas from the fringe wing of the party, making him the most dangerous candidate.

[Stranger in a strange land]

We have no way of knowing, and neither does Romney himself. Romney is a political chameleon with no core views at all beyond whatever is most politically expedient at the moment. We're talking about a guy who literally picks his positions based on poll numbers.

He'll start out as a moderate, then turn more conservative if he thinks that'll prevent a primary challenge.

Romney would likely be the one to accept the more crazy ideas from the fringe wing of the party, making him the most dangerous candidate.

It could really go either way, depending on what the polls say on a particular day.

[Yelnoc]

Perhaps he will be like a Gilded Age President and not bother with an agenda, allowing Congress to dominate the government.