thank you!
Posted on 01/08/2012 8:19:39 PM PST by STARWISE
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The fact that Barack Obama looked sharp and could give inspiring speeches helped him go a long way back in 2008. Well, it is the same thing with Romney. The guy looks very presidential and he sounds very presidential. When backed into a corner, he is extremely slick. He rarely makes mistakes and he is very polished.
Mitt Romney is a "politician" in the worst sense of the word. As his past has demonstrated, he will do and say just about anything in order to get elected. The positions he has taken during this campaign season have been carefully calculated to help him win both the Republican nomination and the general election.
That is why so many call Mitt Romney a "flip-flopper". Romney will take just about any political position if he thinks that it will help him. Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, once made the following statement about her husband....
“He can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s really believing his argument, but he’s not.”
So keep that in mind while reading the following information. Mitt Romney is trying to claim that he is a "conservative" and that he is looking out for the American people, but those claims simply are not true.
The following are 16 reasons why Mitt Romney would be a really, really bad president....
#1 Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Mitt Romney says that he would repeal Obamacare, but the reality is that Romneycare was what Obamacare was based on. In fact, a recent MSNBC article brought to light some new information about the relationship between Romneycare and Obamacare....
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney continues to defend Romneycare, but the reality is that it really is a total nightmare for Massachusetts. The following is how one blogger summarized some of the key points of Romneycare....
• Punitive To Individuals. Everyone must buy health insurance or face tax penalties equal to 50% of cost of standard policy.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on free hospital care were converted into subsidies to help the needy buy insurance.
• A health insurance “exchange” was established to help connect the uninsured with private health plans at more affordable rates.
• Health plans can offer consumers higher deductibles and more restrictive physician and hospital networks in order to lower costs.
• Punitive to Businesses with 11 or more workers that do not offer insurance must pay a $295 per employee fee.
• Established payment policy advisory board; one Board member must be from Planned Parenthood. No pro-life organization represented.
• Provides Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for copay of $50.
So what have been the results of Romneycare in Massachusetts? According to the Daily Caller, health care costs and health insurance premiums have gone up dramatically in Massachusetts....
Since the bill became law, the state’s total direct health-care spending has increased by a remarkable 52 percent. Medicaid spending has gone from less than $6 billion a year to more the $9 billion. Many consumers have seen double-digit percentage increases in their premiums.
All of that certainly sounds a whole lot like Obamacare.
Unfortunately, the other Republican candidates have not taken advantage of this weakness. According to one brand new poll, 6 times as many Republicans view Romneycare unfavorably as view it favorably. This is something that the other candidates should be jumping on big time.
#2 During his time as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney significantly raised taxes. The following is an excerpt from a CBS News article....
Mitt Romney's Harvard MBA and gold-plated resume convinced many business leaders he would follow in the tradition of corporate-friendly Republicans when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
Within three years, some had a vastly different opinion, after Romney's efforts raised the tax bill on businesses by $300 million
The same article also notes that Romney jacked up "fees and fines" on Massachusetts taxpayers substantially....
Romney and lawmakers also approved hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines during his four years in office.
Many in the Massachusetts business community were quite disgusted with Romney by the end of his tenure. Peter Nicholas, the chairman of Boston Science Corporation, says that "tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney."
#3 Government spending in Massachusetts increased significantly under Mitt Romney. An advocate of smaller government he most definitely is not.
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#16 Mitt Romney is a big time Wall Street insider. It is estimated that Romney has a personal fortune of approximately a quarter of a billion dollars, and Wall Street money is being absolutely showered on his campaign.
In a recent article entitled "The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Trying To Buy The 2012 Election", I detailed how numbers compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show that Mitt Romney is getting far more money from the "too big to fail" Wall Street banks than all of the other Republican candidates combined.
The following is an excerpt from that article that shows how much money employees of those banks (and their wives) have been giving to Romney so far this year....
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Goldman Sachs
Mitt Romney: $352,200 Barack Obama: $49,124 Tim Pawlenty: $25,000 Jon Huntsman: $6,750 Rick Perry: $5,500 Ron Paul: $2,500
Morgan Stanley
Mitt Romney: $184,800 Tim Pawlenty: $41,715 Barack Obama: $28,225 Rick Perry: $20,750 Jon Huntsman: $9,750 Newt Gingrich: $1,000 Ron Paul: $1,000 Herman Cain: $500
Bank of America
Mitt Romney: $112,500 Barack Obama: $46,699 Tim Pawlenty: $12,750 Jon Huntsman: $4,250 Ron Paul: $3,451 Rick Perry: $2,600 Thad McCotter: $2,000 Herman Cain: $750 Michele Bachmann: $500 Newt Gingrich: $250
JPMorgan Chase
Mitt Romney: $107,250 Barack Obama: $38,039 Rick Perry: $27,050 Tim Pawlenty: $16,750 Jon Huntsman: $7,500 Ron Paul: $5,451
Citigroup
Mitt Romney: $56,550 Barack Obama: $36,887 Tim Pawlenty: $5,300 Rick Perry: $3,000 Herman Cain: $1,465 Michele Bachmann: $1,000 Ron Paul: $702
As you can see, no other Republican candidate even comes close to Romney at any of these big Wall Street banks.
In fact, of the candidates that are left in the Republican race, Mitt Romney has raised 13 times as much Wall Street money as anyone else has.
The following are the overall donation numbers from employees of the big Wall Street banks and their wives....
Mitt Romney: $813,300 Barack Obama: $198,874 Tim Pawlenty: $101,515 Rick Perry: $58,900 Jon Huntsman: $28,250 Ron Paul: $13,104 Herman Cain: $2,715 Michelle Bachmann: $1,500 Newt Gingrich: $1,250
These numbers paint a very disturbing picture. Even though Romney's poll numbers are in the mid to low 20s most of the time, employees of the big Wall Street banks gave him $813,300 during the first 9 months of this year and they only gave $105,719 to the rest of the Republican candidates combined.
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It is quite obvious that the "establishment" is in love with Mitt Romney.
But if the American people elect Mitt Romney, they will get someone who believes in big spending, big government, bank bailouts, health care mandates, climate change legislation, liberal judges, gun control laws, amnesty for illegal aliens and making things as comfortable for the fatcats on Wall Street as possible.
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So let’s go down a list of issues, and I bet my conservative views trump yours...so by your standards, they are automatically correct and beyond reproach. My “libertarian” views are more free market orientated, along the lines of a muilton friedman.
Nope. It's called being highly principled. Nothing on this Earth will ever get me to cast a vote for Mitt. He will do nothing to turn our Republic towards Liberty. He will just be a placeholder until the next Marxist takes power.
Never again will I vote for Statists.
AGAIN: this IS a conservative NOT a libertarian site.
Romney is NOT a conservative.
Educate yourself:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2830444/posts
#11 Mitt Romney has been a huge supporter of gun control laws.
#12 Mitt Romney once claimed that he was more "pro-choice" than Ted Kennedy, but now he claims that he is pro-life.
#13 During this campaign season, Mitt Romney has stated that he only supports partnership agreements for gay couples and not gay marriage,
#14 As late as 2007, Mitt Romney was a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership. The following is what romneyexposed.com says about this organization....
#15 According to the Huffington Post, Mitt Romney has raised more money from lobbyists than all of the other Republican candidates combined.
#16 Mitt Romney is a big time Wall Street insider. It is estimated that Romney has a personal fortune of approximately a quarter of a billion dollars, and Wall Street money is being absolutely showered on his campaign.
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Related:
Who is Mitt Romney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739309/posts
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Republicans recently have watched multiple Romneys at war with each other over abortion, ethanol, global warming, and more. Alas, this is nothing new. Various Romneys have battled themselves on issues as old as the Vietnam War.
“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam,” Hawkish Romney said in the June 24, 2007, Boston Globe while running as a conservative for 2008’s GOP nomination.
But Romney sang a softer song while campaigning for Senate in liberal Massachusetts. “I was not planning on signing up for the military,” dovish Romney said in the May 2, 1994, Boston Herald. “It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.”
Just last week, Romney spooked pro-lifers by refusing to sign the Susan B. Anthony List’s pledge to nominate anti-abortion judges and other federal officials. Romney properly noted that this promise might block, say, a pro-choice spy master from leading the electronic sleuths at the National Security Agency, which does not address abortion. Still, this dustup underscored Romney’s bipolarity on this key issue.
“I believe that abortion is the wrong choice except in cases of incest, rape, and to save the life of the mother,” pro-life Romney wrote in the July 26, 2005, Boston Globe.
But less than three years earlier, in October 2002, pro-choice Romney disagreed: “Let me make this very clear. I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose.”
“Government under President Obama has grown to consume almost 40 percent of our economy,” pro-enterprise Romney said June 2. “We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free-market economy.”
“I support the subsidy of ethanol,” rent-seeking Romney said on May 27 in Iowa, however. “I believe ethanol is an important part of our energy solution for this country.”
Four days earlier, former governor Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) bravely opposed ethanol subsidies in Iowa. Nonetheless, Romney bear-hugged this boondoggle — weeks before the U.S. Senate voted 73–27 on June 16 to terminate the ethanol tax credit.
“I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that,” CO2-fighting Romney said on June 3. “I think it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants, of greenhouse gases, that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and global warming that you’re seeing.”
Romney earned a wave of the scepter from none other than the pope of the global-warming church, former vice president Albert Gore Jr.
“Good for Mitt Romney,” Gore wrote on June 15. “While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.”
“Governor Romney,” CNN’s John King asked at a June 13 GOP debate in New Hampshire, “constitutional amendment or state decision [to ban gay marriage]?”
“Constitutional,” replied traditional-values Romney.
Conversely, modern-values Romney, said in an Aug. 25, 1994 interview with Boston’s gay newspaper Bay Windows: “The authorization of marriage on a same-sex basis falls under state jurisdiction.”
Gun-toting Romney called himself a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association in April 2007. (Actually that “lifetime” began in August 2006.)
Gun-controlling Romney declared in 1994: “I don’t line up with the NRA.”
Sportsman Romney said in 2007: “I’ve been a hunter pretty much all my life.” A spokesman clarified that Romney actually had hunted precisely twice: At age 15 and in 2006.
“Ronald Reagan is . . . my hero,” the Gipper-loving Romney said in 2005, as the Boston Globe’s Scot Lehigh noted on Jan. 19, 2007. “I believe that our party’s ascendancy began with Ronald Reagan’s brand of visionary and courageous leadership.”
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush,” Reagan-bashing Romney said in 1994, while running against the late senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D., Mass.). “I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.”
You do know Milton Friedman was Reagan’s chief economist do you not? So apparently, not only was Reagan not welcome on FR, he was not as conservative as you, nor a conservative in general? You’re being silly. I would like to hear how you came to think I classify Romney as a conservative, when every reference I have of him explicitly calls him a weak republican..maybe it is you who should educate yourself.
Back who you want, but tearing down the likely nominee is just dumb. Turn potential voters off from candidates and help reelect obama..apparently that is the true meaning of conservatism!
Like I said, I’m willing to bet that for the most part, my conservative leanings lean a bit more fringe right than your own.
You’d be betting wrong. I don’t have ‘conservative leanings.’ I AM a conservative.
What are you smoking? What do Milton Friedman and
Ronald Reagan have to do with Romney?
Matters not to me if you care or not, but here’s an FYI from the owner of this site:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793300/posts
Fringe is accurate, you were backing Romney, at least until recently.
Like they say, a libertarian is a leftist with more conservative economics.
You brought up my statement on libertarianism, I simply addressed it. A conservative going out of their way to turn off potential voters by smearing a likely nominee and reelect Obama....we have a differing opinion on Conservatism. I at this moment do not even support Romney, I personally like Santorum, but if Romney gets the nod, I will not think twice about voting for him and getting Obama out of office. My beef is that you can advance your candidate without making it that much harder to elect whoever gets the nomination.
Thank you for posting that. It is nice to be reminded of MittBot’s position on the key issues.
Wrong. In none of my past posts have I ever backed Romney. I just find it amusing that he may get the nomination and many will either have to eat their words and vote for him, or not vote for him, essentially helping Obama.
Nothing worse than an enemy within.
NO ROMNEY, NO WAY.
GOP-E beware.
Saving. Thanks STAR!
“Support the Republican nominee whoever he may be.”
BEARS REPEATING. Unlike repeating 2008.
You cite as evidence that I back him, a quote of mine in which I call him a weak Republican? LOLWUT?!?! The point was, that any of the candidates would be better than obama. So if he gets the nomination you’ll 1)vote for romney, 2)write in your candidate 3)not vote?
Two of those help Obama and go against advancing Republicanism. A weak republican is better than a democrat. if you were trying to make me feel bad in thinking that I prefer a republican no matter what, over a democrat well, then you fail.
“Wrong. In none of my past posts have I ever backed Romney. “
To: Free ThinkerNY
Social security, medicare/medicaid, welfare and public schooling are all programs that should not financed through the government. A conservative having a conservative view now is a sign of failure? Romney, I was backing you, but this outlandish decree is nonsense.
7 posted on Wed Sep 07 2011 20:28:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by BloodAngel
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