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On November 3, 1982, Reagan said: "There have been concessions and compromises in both directions on all of the major issues, and we expect to continue to work with the Congress in that way."

The United States was founded on compromise. As Ronald Reagan said, the Great Compromise of 1787 is "at the heart of our constitutional system" (October 13, 1987). Reagan believed in principled compromise and spoke of it frequently...

"If the election were based on resume bullet points, the guy would be a shoo-in." - Marcia Vickers, Fortune senior writer, on Mitt Romney(1)

Education
Mitt Romney graduated from Brigham Young University in 1971, where he was top of his class at the College of Humanities.(2) In 1975, he graduated from Harvard Business School in the top 5% of his class. At the same time, he also graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude.(3)

Critics have characterized Romney's health care plan as an affront to liberty. However, new-age version of liberty espoused by Romney’s critics contradicts the concept of liberty as practiced by the founding fathers. Romney's plan adheres to the principles of liberty upon which our nation was founded.

John Hancock, the first and boldest signer of the Declaration of Independence, was elected the first governor of Massachusetts, with over 90% of the vote. As governor, Hancock more...

Romney's critics have accused him of repeatedly changing his position back and forth on abortion. The critics are in error, however. To understand the nature of how Romney's position changed on abortion, one must understand what Romney's position was on abortion.

Romney was neither pro-life nor pro-choice. Romney's position had a high degree of complexity. He has always been personally pro-life, but was "effectively pro-choice." In other words, his position had the effect of...

Critics have accused Mitt Romney of playing politics with pardons because he did not pardon any criminals while serving as Governor of Massachusetts. They claim Romney wanted a "zero pardon" record to tout for political purposes.

They cite a case which they claim is a clear-cut example of someone who should have been pardoned, the case of Anthony Circosta who had been convicted of a felony at the age of 13. Years later, Circosta...