may I ZOT!?
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.
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may I ZOT!?
Do the LURKERs have to GUESS at what you are talking about?
Huh?
I didn't know that MITT ran against her...
Are you refering to the MORMON prophecy about that White Horse??
So many things to 'restore';
So few MORMONs to do the dirty work...
If the Constitution needed restoring...wouldn’t it be beneficial to have a conservative doing the restoring instead of the libtard Romney? Just saying.
How do you figure that, look at him before he re registered Republican in 1993, and ask yourself what was so despicable about President Reagan that Mitt Romney felt the passion to take such a step as dropping his Republican registration in the first place, because of Reagan in the 1980s.
Why before he was on any-one's radar was he only giving money to, and even doing fund raising, solely for liberal democrat candidates?
Mitt Romney was always liberal before 2006, when he gave up on being reelected in Massachusetts and started running for the Republican primary.
If Americans can vote in a muslim president, I don’t see them keeping a mormon out of office.
Go Glenn Beck!!
Bug zapper thread anyone?
Fire away...
A gallon of Williard’s Special Mix Botox and a gallon of Williard’s Special Tar Extract Hair Color and Tonic with every car...
“You’re pretty close to right. If Sarah fails us, I have no candidate.”
Me too, Jim.
Frankly, all of the rest of the batch put out there are either RINO’s or have no legit shot or name recognition.
I think some are trying to sow discord on this site. Both the Third Party types and the MittBots.
The plan is to divide up the conservative vote (or at this point, damage Palin) and let Romney steal the nomination.
I started three responses to it; but self-censored my fingers...
I don’t understand your point.
Your issue is MADE UP.
Now I’ll give you a real issue, which you will cowardly
hide from:
What was the problem to Team Romney about
a woman candidate for VP (Gov.Palin)?
Why the hatred for America and women?
“Fred Malek is endorsing Romney when he was McCAin’s adviser and is supposed to be the guy leading Sarah Palin in her policies.”
Your links don’t support the contention re: Malek. It only states that he like her and advised her.
There is nothing about Malek leading Palin...as a matter of fact I look for Malek to outright endorse Romney.
Also, ask yourself, how did he manage to stay pro abortion from 1970 until 2005, changing only with that unconvincing conversion story, based on a dry conversation that the other person says never happened. Do you ponder why nothing moved him during all those decades of pro life activism and conflicts by real conservatives, and why the fund raising for Planned Parenthood? why was he so aggressive with his homosexual agenda?
Mitt Romney was not just playing down, or trying to conceal some hidden conservatism from a liberal constituency, he was aggressively against conservatism and he is today, if you notice his current "conservatism" only emerges for public display, but look at the hidden parts of his current political activism, he is still striving to forward an anti conservative agenda, and the candidates nationally needed to assist him in that goal.
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