Why I’m Not For Romney Yet

In order to be environmentally conscious, this post most is mostly recycled from a comment I made over at No Left Turns:

I’m not a Romney supporter because I think that even the “modest” kinds of entitlement reforms I favor really do represent big change and enacting even diluted versions of those reforms would be a desperate and at times unpopular struggle. The pushback to those kinds of reforms would be huge (think  a national Wisconsin) and I could easily see the opinion polls turning against those reforms in the short-term.  I don’t remember seeing Romney ever keep a position after it became inconvenient and I’m afraid of how he would handle a showdown with the Democrats and their media allies in a fiscal crisis. I think a Republican who folded and did a U-Turn on entitlement policy or just flailed around impotently would, in some ways, be even worse than an Obama reelection. I’m not saying that is what Romney would do. I’m saying I’m not confident that Romney wouldn’t do something like that.

So who am I for? Of the current candidates, I don’t know yet.

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