Forget Rush; Mitt Romney is quietly showing leadership (BARF ALERT)

Sacromento Bee ^ | 3/4/09 | Kathleen Parker

[CASchack]

It's been a win-win the past few days for Democratic and Republican loyalists, but what about the rest of us?

You know. Americans who either don't think that (a) spending nonexistent trillions is quite the way to proceed in an economic crisis, or that (b) Rush Limbaugh is the messiah.

Oh wait, that's right, Barack Obama is the messiah. I get confused sometimes, what with so much deification going on. Limbaugh's 85-minute speech at last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference, frequently interrupted by grateful applause from a slightly star-struck audience, was, dare we say it, Obama- esque.

But where there's deification, there's bound to be demonization. Thus, Rush told conferees that Obama, in essence, is Stalin. And Obama, via chief commando Rahm Emanuel, anointed Limbaugh as leader of the GOP, calling him the "voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."

Talk about damning with praise.

El Rushbo can't have minded much, despite his protestations that he was being manipulated and maligned by the White House to distract Americans from the "plunging economy." What could be better for a talking head than to be chosen by a president as his worthy adversary?

At least finally both sides certainly should agree on one thing: The Fairness Doctrine is a terrible idea! Who wants fair and politically balanced commentary on the airwaves when being "unfair" is keeping both armies in their Humvees?

The body politic, meanwhile, resembles a tempest-tossed ocean liner on which passengers scurry across the deck as the ship pitches. On one side is the president, promising to build a new $3.6 trillion ark. On the other is El Rushbo, clutching the conservative tablature: Thou shalt not raise taxes.

[Diogenesis]

sevenbak (degenerate sociopath): "Have a good day Diog.
I'm sure I'll see you later on the anti-LDS threads where you split your time with the Romney threads."

sevenbak, you are nothing but a scurrilous sociopath.

I dare you to find one LDS thread where you claim I posted.

[ejonesie22]

LOL...

I was thinking “great, now we have a list of those who have been producing all the damn RINOs”...

[ejonesie22]

BTW, next cut and past, remove Wyrich...

And the Rush bit is not really an endorsement, but thanks for playing it again...

Oh, and as much I a like Sean, Hannity was a Rudy supporter first, so, well ya know...

There are a few other sticking points, but that is enough...

[ejonesie22]

Ah seven, you pulled up a little too hard on the yoke on that one, your true tactics and motivations just got stripped a little bare...

Diogenesis has never really posted on any LDS threads that I know of, and I testify to that as one of the newest bonafide members of the “Flying Inmans”.

As far as keeping the politics and the religious separate you and I have had that talk...

Wait, I have...

[wardaddy]

Parker =Shrew

[Elsie]

On the other is El Rushbo, clutching the conservative tablature: Thou shalt not raise taxes.

Where's the BEEF?

The REST of the PHILOSOPHY of the Right?

Kathy - only your GENDER keeps you from being a Butt Boy!

[Elsie]

Ah...

recommends from ‘important’ people and AUTHORITIES!!

NOW I will support him; even though the RECORD is against him.

[Elsie]

No other candidate will do more to advance the conservative judicial movement than Governor Mitt Romney - just like he did in Massachusetts!

[Elsie]

I would be willing to bet they would do the same if he ran again as well.

IF he runs again?

Read the papers!

[Elsie]

I dare you to find one LDS thread where you claim I posted.

Well...

You WANTED to post there!

It is OBVIOUS that ANYone who oppose Mitt does so BECAUSE OF HIS ROCKSOLID faith!!

--MormonDude(Mitt opposers are Haters & Bigots of the WONDERFUL LDS Organization®)

[and your alliteration sucks; too!]

[Diogenesis]

Sociopath sevenbak (Proven compulsive RomneyBOT liar):
"No other candidate will do more to advance the conservative judicial movement than Governor Mitt Romney."

Exhibit 1:

"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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and this

Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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and then this.....

"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

And how about this?

“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

[Osage Orange]

Parker is in the Dim tank...........

Lost all respect for her...jumping all over Palin.

[Osage Orange]

Good point........

And fwiw, I voted for Romney....here in OK. Frankly I thought...and still think he would have been a better candidate than McCain.

Although....he would have been skewered just like any other RINO.

[FastCoyote]

Kathleen Parker gets a tingling in her leg every time Mit is mentioned.

[FastCoyote]

[Let’s see, who should I believe, a handful of Romney haters on FR, or legitimate true conservatives? No contest! ]

With good hair, a bajillion dollars in the bank,and a head start Romney lost the primary to John McCain. That ought to tell how well your God/Man will do in the political future.

[MeanWestTexan]

The overwhelming majority of people who bring up mormonism with regard to Romney are mormons.

[Diogenesis]

Romney: "Thank me that my BOTs continue their bullying and fabricated attacks on FReepers
who would otherwise expose my liberal record."

[colorcountry]

No other candidate will do more to advance the conservative judicial movement than Governor Mitt Romney.

Which candidates were still in at the point that Bork made this statement? Shillery, Barack, McCrazy and Huckster? Yeah, then I might have agreed with Bork. Sheesh talk about a bunch of looooosers, Romney included!

[colorcountry]

A typical co-religionist lie. While I who am ex-Mormon oppose Romney based upon his religion, I only know of one or two others who might make that claim.

Diogenesis is NOT one of them. In fact as an avid refuter of Mormons lies, I’ve NEVER see Diogenesis on a Mormon related thread.

[AmericanArchConservative]

Sorry (for yourself and any/all MittBots

Mitt reminds me too much of my former home state Senator, Gordon Smith. He exhibits too much willingness to compromise in situations where there is no apparent reason for it...His standards appear too fluid and flexible, and he is barely to the right of John McCain - (that is not a compliment).

Mitt? JUST SAY NO!

I’ll take Palin and....DeMint, or Thompson, or Pence, or McClintock, or Jindal...

In fact almost ANY combination of two out of the aforementioned six will do nicely.

Mitt would be a decent choice for....Commerce Secretary (the job that Judd Gregg just backed out of), or else Treasury Sec.

It would be a natural fit to his best talents.

But he would have to order his team to leave “our Beauteous Sarah” (as Ann Coulter calls her) ALONE. Otherwise - Siberia for Mitt.

A.A.C.