Romney ain't a totally bad guy.

Mitt Romney. I like the guy in some distorted sense. Mainly because he contrasts with wild-eyed, insane conservative Republicans. He's far more conservative than I'd like. But he's less conservative than the rest of the GOP pack. He's funny. Inadvertently. Because he's trying to portary himself as just as conservative as the others. Hard to do. Because as governor of Massachusetts he sculptured a health care system very similar to so-called Obamacare. Romney is hated and despised by ultra-conservatives and the Tea Party yokels. Because of suspicions that he's really a closet liberal. He ain't. By any stretch of the imagination. But he doesn't pass the ultra-conservative litmus test. He's conservative, but not mind-boggling ultra conservative. To an ultra-conservative, Obama is a socialist, a communist, an atheist and the anti-Christ. They won't even acknowledge that Obama was born in the U.S. They think of him as a Muslim sympathizer, if not an outright Muslim. And what makes it even worse, the ultra-conservatives are livid because Obama is a black man living in the White House. A place built only for people of the white/Caucasian race. They call Obama a snob because he has a Harvard education. And because he wants everyone to have the opportunity for higher education. For ultra-conservatives, it's important that everybody remain a dunce. Uneducated. Because they tend to remain lifelong Republicans. Turns out that Romney has half a brain. And that scares ultra conservatives. And the fact that he's a Mormon. Not the usual kind of ultra conservative Christian. That perplexes the Republicans. They'd rather put their support behind the likes of Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul. Makes me think that Mitt Romney can't be a totally bad guy. --Jim Broede