Here's the thing--if you want to understand politicians you have to think like one. The way I see it I have two options. I can either join the "false left-right paradigm" herd or I can try to understand how politicians are catering to it with their rhetoric. What do you want to be? The voter who's a product of the base + the media or the voter who actually matters in the long run?
Yeah, there are things I don't like about Romney, boo hoo. But there's also a pretty damn good reason his base wants a strong millitary and Bush Doctrine-Obama Hypermode. I think I can deal with that keeping me safe for the next four years even if I hate the thesis overall.
I'm also not sure I want fully nationalized healthcare, but I also don't want the person who pays insurance for 30 years before getting laid off for a month & then contracting cancer to die because they didn't protect themselves as a good ole republican would. I also don't want Obama's aborted version that nobody seems to like and apparently has zero checks against moral hazard while raising the cost curve significantly. Bottom line is national healthcare is here to stay and I want the best system possible to come of it. If Romney wins then he'll have to negotiate with the senate, in the best interest of America, for a good system that pisses everyone off because it contains the best controls. He'll also have to give something to democrats to get what he wants, something like higher death taxes on the rich and an actually progressive taxation system. You are not getting any of that if Obama wins because that's how politics works.
That, and Romney is one helluva great guy.
