Romney: best Republican candidate since Eisenhower.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
We elected the smart guy
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I was first eligible to vote for president in 1972.  Since then Republican candidates for president have consistently been dumb for the office. It's harsh to say but it's true.  Romney seems to be the most intelligent Republican candidate since Nixon and the best Republican candidate since Eisenhower.

Clearly, Since 1972 the most intelligent candidates overall have been, chronologically: Carter, Clinton and Obama.

The basic requirements of the job are intelligence, executive experience and communications skills.  That's pretty fundamental stuff.  To continually nominate people who were less intelligent than the office requires is irresponsible.  The Republican party is a minority party by its nature being the party of the rich.  It has cynically cruised through a series of silly issues to get people to vote against their own best interests.

Intelligent Republicans do not want to debase themselves running for president so the party is limited to dummies or expedient cynics.

Mitt Romney is the first Republican candidate I could even consider.  The others have been completely unacceptable.  That combined with the disastrous dysfunction of President Obama and the absurdity of the Electoral College, which makes my vote in New York meaningless, I will probably vote for Romney first thing in the morning before I lose my nerve to do so.