{"id":25513,"date":"2012-01-11T05:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25513"},"modified":"2012-01-10T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T00:59:38","slug":"perfect-the-enemy-of-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25513","title":{"rendered":"Perfect: The Enemy Of Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

People ask me “who are you backing for President”.<\/p>\n

It’s not “anyone but Mitt”, if that’s what you’re curious about.<\/p>\n

No, where I stand so far in this race is “a point waaaay to the right of where Mitt is, so that he knows that I, and a few million people who think like me, remain to be convinced, and that he’d better hustle on over to the right to join us. \u00a0And stay here”.<\/p>\n

In an election where I wanted a candidate that would bowl me over with his firebrand free-marketeering gun-toting Iranian-scaring tax-slashing government-throttling mettle, Mitt Romney is…<\/p>\n

…acceptable.<\/p>\n

As in “waaaay better in the Oval Office than Obama”. \u00a0As in “maybe so much better than this nation has a chance to survive into my grandchildren’s’ adulthood”. \u00a0Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

But to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you don’t go to November with the candidate you want; you go with the candidate who gets nominated.<\/p>\n

And so while I will do my best as an individual to make Romney know that he’s got Reagan-sized shoes to fill, and he’d better make a game effort at filling them, he’s…<\/p>\n

…acceptable.<\/p>\n

And apparently\u00a0I’m not the only one that thinks so<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney is the now the only candidate that a majority of conservative and moderate\/liberal Republicans nationwide see as an “acceptable” GOP nominee for president. Conservative Republicans are more likely to say Romney would be an acceptable nominee than either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I shudder to ask how they polled that – but that’s what Gallup says. \u00a0Gallup’s no Rasmussen, but they’re not the Humphrey Institute, either.<\/p>\n

Acceptable.<\/p>\n

It’s high time someone made a better case, if one is to be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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