Posted on 01/22/2010 6:06:18 PM PST by restornu
As The Wall Street Journal points out in an opinion this morning, this is a good day not only for Scott Brown, the new senator from Massachusetts, but for Mitt Romney as well. Glenn Beck doesn’t trust Brown, he says. But with Brown toting friends like the popular former governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, John McCain and Romney around on his bus, it might not be such a good day for Glenn Beck.
The WSJ’s Kim Strassel pointed out that Romney’s closest aides flooded to Mr. Brown, bringing with them the savvy of his national operation.
“From a perch atop his Free and Strong America PAC, Mr. Romney has been raising money, nurturing his team, keeping himself in the national spotlight. With the Massachusetts Senate race, he sensed an unexpected opportunity to step to the front of the GOP presidential ranks,” she writes.
I doubt that the Tea Party’s tent will fold with the election of Brown, but something else has happened: The river that runs between traditional Republicans and insurgent conservative populists now has a bridge in Scott Brown. In fact, it has another bridge in Virginia with the new governor, Bob McDonnell, who will give the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday. The insurgents have built a new base for organization and now, with the election of Brown and McDonnell, it is being absorbed into the mainstream.
But when the very first thinking about regional identity started to surface here in New England as a militant defense against federal overreach, Romney was the governor of Massachusetts and he was already incorporating the same elements of thinking, not as revolutionary polemic, but as practical and effective management strategies here in Massachusetts.
Thus the phrase, “One size does not fit all,” which he began to use as governor, used throughout his presidential campaign and used again this last week in a Fox Business interview. It is his theme song. Texas Gov. Rick Perry now uses the phrase as well, and so does Sarah Palin.
Republican pundits report that Romney’s stock has been down because of RomneyCare, the healthcare program that Romney instituted in Massachusetts. Some of the features suggest ObamaCare, and as large numbers oppose ObamaCare’s vast federal spending, the thinking goes, they would therefore oppose RomneyCare. But that misses the point.
“The bill that was being pushed in Washington was not good for Massachusetts,” Brown said after his election. “It may have been good for other states, but we already had everything and a lot of what was being proposed.”
That is just the point in Romney’s thinking about healthcare: What is good for one state and region is not necessarily good for others. Romney is in fact in the avant garde with this thinking, which has become the base camp of the states’-sovereignty movement.
Romney was unique in the history of Massachusetts governors in that he came to us from the west. He had personal experience in the Western states, in Michigan and in Massachusetts, where he went to college.
My observation here when he was governor was that he had that rare quality which Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind.” He does not rebel from new ideas and new people but continually incorporates aspects of new thinking in his own ideas to make a better fit. And he is aware that the country has changed since 1776, when the west was forest and later when it was frontier, and even the 1930s, when the vast majority of Americans worked in one of two places, the floor of the factory or the field.
One-size-fits-all-federalism might have been the perfect system then. But today for a country as full and rich and varied and alive as ours, the old system is a disaster. Romney was the first to catch on.
I have little use for tyrannts
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And yet you revere Joey Smitrh and Brigham Young...
Make up your cotton pickin mind...
And you revere RINO Romney who believes in disenfranchising all females and the men who are not mormons...
Plus all unborn babies ...
If thats not tyrany what is...
Yep -- a lot of Romney folks are JUST PLAIN BLIND, and willfully so. And they have the gall to accuse thee and me of being irrational, of being motivated by "hatred," when we protest loudly and aggressively. Romney needs to be agressively rejected from presuming any kind of "lead" voice in the GOP. Guys like Romney are the reason WHY so many people throw their hands up in the air in defeat and say, "There's not a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats." There IS a huge difference between the two, but NO THANKS TO ROMNEY. On the contrary, he endangers maintaining that crucial difference.
His demonstrated social agenda is completely contrary to what the LDS church stands for.
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Not quite. Some of his views goes against the modern LDS facade, but as Finny pointed out, there is a very wide range of beliefs and behaviors in the LDS church, today, similar or moreso (in some cases) than mainstream Protestant Churches or the Catholic church.
Furthermore, this modern version differs greatly from their past, the early LDS church was full on theocratic communist dictatorship and was one out of doctrine, not necessity.
I’m surprised the Relief Society does not offer English grammar courses.
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Females who are told to marry early and start having lots of babies so they can earn their way into the harem part of the mormon afterlife dont need to know how to read and write...
What is the origin of you site name, 'restornu'?
Did you really label someone 'son of perdition'? (Though not kind it caused me to laugh).
Are you a neat dresser? All the Mormons I've known dress nicely. When I spot a woman at the market clad in sweatpants and gym shoes I'd bet her not to be a Mormon.
Me too...
Sarah Palin 2012
:)
LOL. Sure, why not?
Bearing false witness, indeed.
Ronald Reagan according to Mitt Romney "he was adamantly pro-choice"
Look, if you don’t like our site, you can always take a freepin’ hike. Now, that’s real freedom!
First of all there is nothing funny about being called a son of perdition. As far as their dress, having first hand knowledge...their dress is called a Mormon flower garden...all flowery and stuff.
I'd add, if you have so much disdain for conservatism and such love for der Flipster...go to DU or Kooky Kos where they advocate for the socialist policies der Flipster put into law in Taxachusetts.
Unfortunately, he hails from my area and the only way to win here these days is to compromise. Certain FReepers despise him. I do not understand all of that.
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You just explained it to yourself...
Compromise is not conservative...
Saying I am against abortion except for .......
is not pro-life...
is not conservative...
Saying I am against abortion but I have to be for it to be elected in MASS is not pro-life...
is not conservative...
Saying my relative died from an illegal abortion so I am for legal abortions...
is not pro-life...
is not conservative...
Saying I must be p0ro-abortion because the MASS constitution says it is legel in MASS is not pro-life ...
is not conservative...
Did RINO Romney compromise ???
Is that all he did ???
Or is “compromise” just a white wash, a curtain invented for this past election cycle to “excuse” his past 60 years of liberal embracing of the issues ???
RINO Romney is life long pro-abortion and a lot of other liberal political leanings...
RINO Romney is not a conservative...
Probably the sickest tyrant is none other than Mitt Romney.
Who would have thought we would agree?
Cease with the dramatics. Just because something is funny does not mean it is true.
The constitution that is "hanging by a thread", resty??
I was not aware he violated his marriage vows...
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What ????
I was SURE that TRUE conservatives did NOT compromise...
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They dont...
Nothing dramatic about me. I don't take orders from anybody anymore. As I have my whole life I give a shit about liberty and freedom. Try it.
You have had quite a head spinning today havent you ???
:)
I’ve been busy! Stupid people make my blood boil.
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