I salute your interest in politics at such a young age. Keep it up!

I appreciate you “debunking” my reasons for not liking him, but I’m still not entirely convinced.
First, I actually do understand how businesses make profits. It’s not particularly complex: buy low, sell high. It’s what we do in my line of work, and we do pretty well at it. Again, I have nothing against Mitt Romney for his line of work, but I don’t see how his experience at Bain is relevant to the White House because he won’t be buying up new entities and selling them to foreign nations. While it’s true that his ability to streamline, if actually valid, would be a great asset, I’m not sure that the businesses he acquired and sold actually had better long-term profitability as a result of his involvement.
Second, his family money is relevant only in that it gave him the necessary capital to start acquiring and selling businesses. He certainly multiplied that money a great deal, but the amount of capital that currently doesn’t exist in the federal budget is probably going to be a bit of a rude awakening to someone who is used to starting with a loaded ledger. You do, I trust, understand the value of starting with capital.
Third, I think that my claim did make quite a bit of sense about his history as governor of Massachusetts. Unemployment rose sharply during his tenure as governor, as did our budget deficit, as did our actual tax rates (Romney called them “fee increases,” but they took my money as effectively as any other tax raise I’ve been under).
Fourth: no, I don’t think that Romney can get a job, at least not one that he wants. I say this because he spent the last four years campaigning for the job he wanted, and then for VP, and then for a position in the McCain cabinet. He was 0-3 on all of those counts. I’m sure that Romney could get a great job in industry somewhere, and, with his rhetoric, frankly it makes more sense for him to give up on the idea of being in government and go back to the private sector. However, it seems like he wants to focus on elected govt. (despite his constant bashing of the size of government), and only having one rocky and brief term as governor where his policies changed dramatically (pro-gay rights to anti-gay marriage, pro-choice to pro-life, pro-amnesty to anti-illegal immigration) is not a great backdrop for a presidential run. For his own sake, Romney needs a job someplace where he can show exactly what kind of a president he would be. He was a great asset to Bain and to the Salt Lake Olympics, but neither of those positions really gave him a great platform to show what he would do as president.

And, last time I checked my head’s not in the sand, but thanks for your concern. I don’t care whether or not it’s typical for a Republican Mormon to like Romney; I only added the point about my religion so that I wouldn’t be accused of anti-Mormonism just because I would prefer someone like Ron Paul to Mitt Romney.

You obviously don’t understand they way a business works or profits are made. Romney’s money didn’t just appear out of nowhere. He worked hard for that. Not impressive? You go out and make hundreds of millions of dollars and come back that you didn’t work hard for it. If it wasn’t impressive wouldn’t everyone be making that kind of money? Right… And if you thinking that because his parents left him money diminishes his accomplishments then you’re making excuses and digging real deep for some reason not to like him.
His business of cleaning up companies and selling them is a healthy thing. He could either do nothing with them and let them die of naturally, or prune them to get rid of excess so that it may later flourish. It’s the same principle used in gardening. What’s wrong with that? And then you say that you don’t have a problem with it – well then why would you use it as a talking point against him? You don’t make sense. His experience is incredibly significant in the White House, especially in our current economic situation. We’ve got a government that is in trouble with huge monetary losses – how does turning a business from being unprofitable to profitable not help with turning our current deficit government into a surplus government? Again, you’re not making sense.
Leaving a worsened Massachusetts? Right, turning a huge deficit into a huge surplus is a lot worse. Third time that you haven’t made sense.
Fourth? Mitt not having a job for the past few years. Do you think it’s because he can’t get one or needs one? Question: Why do you have a job? (I’m assuming you have one) To provide for your family, right? Since he can already provide for his, he can focus on things he cares about more than making money, like advancing conservative ideals. Don’t tell me that if you had the time and resources that you wouldn’t contribute more of your resources on what you really care about. Again, you don’t make sense.
So now that your reasons for not liking him have been debunked, you can pull your head out of the sand and stop disliking the guy simply because it would be too typical for a “Republican Mormon” to like him.