He's my man

Big news: I'm a pretty conservative person.

For me, it's been fairly discouraging recently and not because the Republican party has been wobbling around. I don't really care much for political parties, either one. But it has become clear that Hillary Clinton is the most likely individual to become the next President of the United States. And I just plain don't believe that her election would be a good thing for the United States, even though it would be cool to have a woman get elected.

The problem is alternatives: Who else to be President? John McCain? Sorry. Don't trust the guy any more than I did John Dean. Rudy Guiliani? Nice job in New York after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and other places. But I don't think he can lead the country. And he's not likely to run anyway.

I got the chance to hang out a little with Mitt Romney, governor of Massachusetts, the other day. I paid for the opportunity, $2,000. (Another topic: Why is it that election reform means that actually seeing a presidential candidate in person is on the other side of a $1,000 or $2,000 check?) He's smart, articulate, good looking, accomplished. In other words, he seems very electable. He did manage to get elected as a Republication to be governor of Massachusetts, for gosh sake! Remember "Don't Blame Us"?

Most important of all, his positions seem to line up with mine. He's not like all these liberal (and conservative) wimps who seem to think that war is a political position that you can adopt or reject based on how likely it appears that we might win. He talks about how we might need to commit more resources to Iraq before we can even consider getting out. He talks about how the United States is a smaller country in a world where China and India are our economic competitors and we could lose if we don't show leadership. In other words, he's not afraid to think that we might need to project our power rather than trying to pretend otherwise.

The man speaks sense to my ears. It's early days yet, but Mitt Romney made me think, for the first time, that we could have a real race. An experienced, battle tested politician like Hillary Clinton versus an articulate, visionary executive like Mitt Romney.

Comments

[Emma]

Your positions and Romney's line up with a major exception: choice. If he doesn't find his way to a position that people like me can live with, we'll have another election decided by a few thousand votes.

[Jim Forbes]

Ain't pollitics interesting? and isn't it funny how people assume we belong to one political party or another based on litle things they think they know or have heard about us?
Curious race unfolding and i think you're correct about Romney.
i just wish Bob kerrey would run

best
Jim Forbes

[passerby watching google video of you]

Try Barak Obama.

[Jeff Yablon]

Hi Stewart:

Voice from the past, huh?

It’s been quite awhile since we’ve been in contact. I’ve been as they say, “laying low”. I sold my businesses in 1999 and 2000, got the first J-O-B of my adult life, and it took me a long time to get through an ugly divorce.

I’ve also spent the last couple of years putting something together that I honestly believe will change the world. I’m not kidding:

Flat-Fee Technical Support for the Small Business space.

This has been tried in various ways by small support companies, but invariably fails. Well, two decades in technology have taught me a thing or two about the business needs and desires of both the supporters and the supportees, and my press and software backgrounds have taught me even more.

Having done business both with the large guys who have long coveted the SMB market (we were an IBM Partner when I ran PlanetUplink), and as a large company (my “J-O-B” was with a very large telecommunications company, working in business development), I finally put it all together. Computer Support really can be delivered to the SMB space in a way that works, makes them more comfortable, and is profitable to the support vendor.

I really believe that PC-VIP will be the “Holy Grail” of the technical support business. I’m not interested in speculating about just how big this is going to get, but I honestly feel what I said before is true; this is going to change the world, and in a lot of ways.

Just thought you might like to know before the masses found out; press releases have been drafted and will be hitting the street in a few days.

I hope all is well, and now that “I’m back”, I hope we can get reacquainted.

Best Regards,

Jeff Yablon
646 862-6082
jeff@pc-vip.com
http://pc-vip.com