Lest the opening post on Romney give you the wrong impression, let me highlight a Tea Party conservative exercising some principles of moderate politics: Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI). The New York Times had a profile of him last week that caught my attention. The youngest member of the freshman class (he’s all of 30) is…
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Romney’s Abandonment of Moderation
Anecdotally, Mitt Romney seems to get a lot of support among disillusioned former Obama supporters and others hoping for a reasonable Republican alternative. While I confess to having initially been intrigued by Romney in the 2008 race, I can’t really imagine supporting him now. Not so much because of his flip-flops on certain policies (though…