Mitt Romney - "I like mandates. The mandates work." (Mar 23, 2011)

4 second clip on YouTube.com ^ | Mar 23, 2011 | Mitt Romney

[SoConPubbie]

Mitt Romney likes mandates

[SoConPubbie]

Where the hell did I do that? I'm simply pointing out that you post an article to bash Romney and then, presumably when you don't get enough of a response to satisfy your needs for attention, you post it again. That's spamming.

You just did it again.

This isn't to "bash Romney" it's to put the truth of Romney's record out there on a continual basis in order to remind everyone why they are on whatever side they are on with respect to Romney.

And unless you are God, you don't have a clue as to my motivations, and like the normal Mitt Romney poster, you go out of your way to spin your interpretation of my motivations to the worst conclusion you can.

Try dealing with the truth of Mitt Romney's Progressive Liberal record and leave the DU tactics of smearing someone you view as an opponent to DU.

[SoConPubbie]

No, Flint told it pretty much exactly as it is. You spam the forums with old articles people have already seen or otherwise don't care about. The only thing you're accomplishing is cluttering up the place and making it a little less user friendly. The vast majority of conservatives know exactly what Romney is and they are going to vote for him anyway as a means of removing Obama.

If that were the case, why comment?

No one is forcing Mitt Romney supporters to post on articles telling the truth about Mitt Romney's record.

Why all the nasty comments if no one cares?

[JoSixChip]

"If I have to explain States Rights to you people we are in deep dodo."

That ship has sailed my FRiend. These so called conservatives are more about emotional response then rational thought. Their candidate did not win the primary, so they are in full temper tantrum mode. The dumbing down of America is all but complete.

[flintsilver7]

Pointing out that your sole purpose in life seems to be to post the same anti-Romney articles over and over qualifies as spinning? That’s not even spinning what YOU do, much less what Mitt Romney did.

[SoConPubbie]

That ship has sailed my FRiend. These so called conservatives are more about emotional response then rational thought. Their candidate did not win the primary, so they are in full temper tantrum mode. The dumbing down of America is all but complete.

Yes, it is just so emotional to point out the total lack of conservative thought that goes into trying to use the 10th Amendment to hide the Socialistic nature, the Statist nature, the complete Progressive Liberal nature of an Individual Mandate contained in compulsary Healthcare Insurance that is used to supply healthcare Insurance to non-productive members of society by STEALING the resources of production members of society while also forcing conservatives and Christians to pay for $50 abortions.

[cripplecreek]

Like I said, with Mitt Romney, and supporters, there is always an excuse for his Progressive Liberal actions.

A clear example of why liberal republicans are so dangerous. Republican loyalists suddenly lose the will to fight and support any liberal idiocy to come out of the administration like faith based initiatives and public private partnerships. Faith based initiatives just infect religion with government and public private partnerships is a happy way to say taxpayer funding of the private sector.

[Longbow1969]

If that were the case, why comment?

Oh, I've long ago figured out not to click on much of anything you post - and I imagine most regulars here know all your doing is spamming the forums with old material. You got me a couple times early on because I wasn't careful to look at the article dates, but nowadays if I open one of your threads its only to laugh at the comments or, as in this case, agree with anyone who doesn't appreciate you cluttering the forums with junk.

If you were actually posting current articles that criticized Romney from the right, I wouldn't have any problem. In fact, I'd probably even read some of them. The problem is your doing nothing but spamming old articles containing mostly well known information over and over again. On many forums, you'd be regarded as a site pest for doing that.

[BornToBeAmerican]

I like MANDATES TOO.

NO MORE MANDATES

[Flightdeck]

You post articles more than once? Pathetic.

[FreeReign]

Wow that was a quick clip and I think it's from 2008 and not 2011.

Let's roll the tape with full context.

GIBSON: But Governor Romney's system has mandates in Massachusetts, although you backed away from mandates on a national basis. ROMNEY: No, no, I like mandates. The mandates work.

FRED THOMPSON: I beg your pardon? I didn't know you were going to admit that. You like mandates.

ROMNEY: Let me -- let me -- oh, absolutely. Let me tell you what kind of mandates I like, Fred, which is this. If it weren't...

THOMPSON: The ones you come up with.

(LAUGHTER)

ROMNEY: Here's my view: If somebody -- if somebody can afford insurance and decides not to buy it, and then they get sick, they ought to pay their own way, as opposed to expect the government to pay their way.

ROMNEY: And that's an American principle. That's a principle of personal responsibility.

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Sounds like Newts former position too.

[mojitojoe]

Look at your profile page. You did the same thing with McCain and we ended up with o bama. You disgust me. But this guy likes you-

[Adder]

Well, thanks for doing the hard work of zero’s opposition research.

By all means, lets continue to cut off our noses to spite our faces.

/sarc

These articles would have had much more effect, say, last December. Fact is that Romney has won the nomination, virtually. This campaign is to get zero out of the People’s House.

I am sorry it turned out the way it did but this is what we HAVE to do it with. Little acid drips on Romney is not doing one bit of good.

[Longbow1969]

You post articles more than once? Pathetic.

LOL, it really is. I see one of his spam attempts just got locked by the mods because he had already posted it at least 5 or 6 times. I thought everyone knew that this sort of thing was considered very poor forum behavior and that the people who do it are usually regarded as site pests.

[Colofornian]

I saw this thread...didn't initially review any of the responses...and thought of common FREEPERs in how they might respond on a thread like this...I then concluded:

Well, what they'll likely do is that they won't comment upon Romney at all...They'll try to turn the thread into one about Obama.

Now, I thought, if they want to compare Obama vs. Romney & discuss both, I thought that'd be quite reasonable...
...But Romney supporters who can't defend exactly why they support him -- minus anti-ObamaISM, that is
...(IOW why they apparently support Romney minus anything Romney-based other than his team uniform color)...
...= the need to turn EVERY Romney thread into ONLY ObamaCommentVille til Election Day

So, I open up the thread...and sure enough...which commentators fell into this all-too-predictable theme? Markusprime, E. Pluribus Unum, Selmore:

For example:

At least he’s not communist Obama or a paid DNC operative... ;) [Markusprime, #3]

Prolly an Odumbo plant. [Selmore, post #18]

But Markusprime and Selmore BOTH -- actually in just a few words -- were able to combine the TWO most common evasive tactics prevalent on Web forums.

Why, if you don't like the forum content, not only do you avoid commenting on the article and the focus of the article, you turn the thread into something about the thread-poster. You make it personal to the poster -- entirely against forum rules (the part about calling him a Dem "plant" and "paid operative")

This happens so commonly that these kinds of posts aren't even removed anymore.

Now other posters here have also attempted to make the thread not about Romney -- but about the threadposter...and I'm sure others will jump onboard:

* Flintsilver7
* Longbow1969
* Mojitojoe
* Flightdeck

FREEPER community: Take a look @ your most common FR Romney supporters ... represented by the comments of these six above...

Seemingly, the "sum" total communicated as to why Romney is to be supported NEVER has anything to do with Romney himself.

Now to be fair, FR posters realize the "no campaigning for Romney" sentiments expressed by the site owner...so restrictions do exist & those need to be considered...

But here's the Heads-up: You will have a group of FREEPERS who attempt on EVERY Romney thread to simply say, "Look! Over there! Obama! Obummer! Zero!" ... That's combined with "Well, lookie @ who's posting this..."

That's it! Now why is that a relevant comment beyond any personalities in this thread?

Why? Think about it for a moment...

This constitutes the "essence" -- the convincing "passion" -- about the (r) candidate that's supposed to win over all the independent lurkers who review these threads??!

(I think for this reason alone Romney's in deeper sleeper trouble than anybody yet realizes)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What-ever.

[Rome2000]

[freedomfiter2]

If I have to explain States Rights to you people we are in deep dodo.

We get state’s rights. What we reject is thuggish, tyrannical, central planners, whether they act at the city, county, state, or federal level.

[MHGinTN]

Oh, I think I see what’s pushing you! You bought all those supplies and ammo and nice semi-auto guns and now you want the collapse to commence so you won’t have sepnt all that money needlessly. Yes, I think I’m beginning to catch your southern california commie drift. La Raza might let you join them in the chaos you lust for ... then again, maybe not.

[freedomfiter2]

Republican loyalists suddenly lose the will to fight and support any liberal idiocy to come out of the administration like faith based initiatives and public private partnerships.

You’re right. That is why a Republican like Romney will govern to the left of a Democrat like Clinton.

[CommerceComet]

The one constant with Mitt and his supporters, there is ALWAYS an excuse.

Another constant is that they always attack the messenger when their Myth doesn't look good.