Mitt Romney should be the next president

Before I get started, I just wanna thank you for the respect to are willing to pay to others who dont necessrily subscribe to your point of view. Its very refreshing, and i know we will both enjoy this debate. When it comes to Ron Paul, I cant say that I am particularly well informed. I have been to his website and listened to him on the issues, and Ive read his biography. If I get any facts wrong, please feel free to let me know. I am bound to mess up somewhere. Watching his videos, Ron Paul has impressed me. He is very smart and insightful man. This as a quality is great. It does, however have certain repercussions that I feel make him a poor fit for president at this time. Because of his ability to see things from new persepectives, he has what some people consider pretty radical ideas. Things such a reinstating the gold standard out income tax. I wont argue that they are all bad ideas, but the time for that kind of economical change is not now. Our economy is too unstable to expirement with moving onto the gold-standard or cutting income tax. Suppose the economy crashes while we are undergoing these changes...we would lose much more than a few billion dollars. OUr government would no longer have sufficient funding. The National standard of living will drop lower than it has in 100 years. Its to risky of a proposition. To me the most important thing we need to be concerned about is our economy and according to polls, most people feel the same way. Our strength as a nation and our work ethic as a people come from our industries. Our success has been based not on our military might, but our ability to gain great profit from very productive industries. Even our military might comes less from well-trained soldier and more from our ability to produce weapons, munitions, and tolls faster than any other nation. When it comes to all out war, the US wins because of its ability to overwhelm and outproduce and other nation. Today, however our economy is at serious risk. We are no longer able to compete with countries such as Japan and China. If we want to maintain stability and prolong our role as a superpower, we need to stay competitive. In this situation, we need to look at the country as a business. We need to expand our industries to become more productive. We need to cut spending to increase profit. The man to do this job is the "King if Cut-Spending" himself, Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney has brought many business out of near-bankruptcy and made them successful and very profitable. His ability to turn businesses around is what we need for America. He can bring changes that will make us very profitable, and hat are much less risky than Ron Pauls ideas. We need a more stable America and now is not the time to kick the government off of some of its old legs. What we need more, is to pump more strength into them. As you said earlier, Ron Paul has the most consistent conservative record. I can probably agree with that. I get the impression that he does have a firm grasp on the economic crisis, but I do not believe he really has the skills to tackle the problem. He has little training in handling money. In reality...this is a job for a businessman. I agree with you that neoconservatives are dangerous too. People like Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, and in some cases Rudy Giuliani scare me. I like to call them "Bush" republicans. Republicans that speak change but aren't ready to listen to the voice of the people. They are people who i think will certaily not fix our Bushist government.