Hmmm...
Well, we can still ask him what he would have said.
Everyone here did fine without me, but since you asked..
I probably would have just asked him direct questions about his position ( acting like a liberal and refusing to justify your stance, get the liberal treatment. )
1) Given his History in Mass, does Romney have the required credibility and moral authority to demand the cutting of the entitlement state? Why do you feel so, with specific examples.
2) What in Romney's history leads you to believe that he has the required leadership abilities to sway pubic opinion towards cuts
3) You are correct that Social Security could be saved if the government was returned to its constitutional limits. However, I do not understand why we should bother. What justifies keeping SS vs. other programs - or at all?
As far as the "we advocate violence" bit :
1) Isn't all government power based on violence or threat of violence? If that government is using that power without the consent of the governed, in excess of the authority given to it, what responses do you feel are justified. What responses did the founders of our nation feel were justified?
2) Is advocating the use of violence to defend one's property or family from those who openly declare that they will use violence as a means to harm them, immoral or wrong?
3) describe under what circumstances (if any) you feel a violence is warranted?
Jefferson said we had a DUTY to throw down a tyrannical government, and a right to defend ourselves from it. I think we are a long way from sending an army marching on Washington DC. Like the men of Gondor we wait within our walls for the enemy to come to us, and defend those walls we will. The peaceful process can continue, right up till they are on my doorstep. Then Violence will be used. I don't advocate its use- I am FORCED TO ITS USE by the threat of violence upon me and my family if I do not give up my inalienable rights and bow before my betters. Liberty or Death.
AMPU obviously thinks that Romney will prevent them from arriving at his door, but refused to provide details to why. Those of us on the other side recognize it for what it is - the same denial and normalcy bias that afflicted us before we stood and forced ourselves to look upon the unpleasant truth. I respect that APMU, IDP and others still have hope and faith that Romney will prove to be Aragorn and not the Steward Denathor, or worse, the White Wizard Traitor Sarumon.
Such a beleif is not silly - the Divine will that has protected America throughout our history ( and yes, his hand in events is clear) may very well again produce a savior from the North, arriving in the hour of need - one who can turn the tide and produce a peace. However, that same history indicates that such divine intervention rarely occurs though our elections or politics, but instead frequents the battle field. And ultimately that is the point: The situation we are in will REQUIRE A MIRACLE to resolve. One of my friends jokes that "some people's TEOTWAKI plan is to be raptured." Those of us who tend to deserve, expect and/or ask less of God find that while we may hope for the best, the time has come to expect and prepare for the worst.