Posted on 02/21/2007 7:39:36 PM PST by Torie
Mitt Romney is in trouble. In a deeply conservative party, the former governor of Massachusetts is a ghost of Republicanism past: a moderate. His presidential announcement speech read like a tribute to his father, [who was] liberal enough to get elected and reelected governor in a Democratic state, Michigan. ... "We have lost our faith in government--not in just one party, not in just one house, but in government," as if oblivious to the heresy: Rehabilitating government as a good in itself is not the usual way of introducing yourself to voters in today's post-Reagan Republican Party. Maybe Romney's tried to shake it, but he just can't: He carries progressive Republicanism around in his blood.
Which raises certain suspicions about that announcement speech. As the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) immediately observed, its location, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, is a "testament to the life of ... a notorious anti-Semite and xenophobe." ...
Those memories no longer exist--except to the hair-trigger sensitivities of the likes of the NJDC, which put out their press release and garnered an AP article on the flap. But here's something to consider: The Romney campaign has harvested benefits from that flap, whether it was intentional or not. Consider the sarcastic reflection of this denizen of the right-wing website Free Republic:
Allright, an AP hit piece! The MSM has more acute RINOdar than we. Real RINO's don't get rinky-dink MSM hit pieces such as this. This proves that the MSM believes Romney is a conservative, and therefore must be roughed up.
Translation: I used to suspect that Romney was only a "Republican in Name Only." But now I realize: He bugs the liberal media. By the tribal logic of right-wing identity politics, that is enough--Mitt Romney now can be called a conservative.
...
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
I see he quoted you. Good job Plutarch.
Aw shucks, it was just the sarcastic reflection of this FR denizen, that's all.
Because that's all he's worth. (RINO Fo SHO)
ATTACK??? You call THAT an attack? I'm sorry my friend but THAT is nothing of the sort. It is a fairly clear statement of simple FACT not even written by the poster you choose to call a liberal?
Just because YOU appear to have tunnel vision does not mean that everyone does THANK GOD!
We have enjoyed a LONG standing and very congenial aquaintence here on FR and I sincerly hope that continues but I have to tell you that, IMHO, you have completely lost any real prespective of the big picture.
If you can't see that these people have a clear agenda of undermining and neutralizing conservatives and the pro-life movement, then perhaps it is you with "tunnel vision," my friend.
As I have said to you previously my friend "it would appear that there is only ONE candidate (yourself) that you could fully support and he's not running."
You and are both long time, fully engaged, particiapants in the political process E.V. and we both know that we are NEVER presented with a "perfect" candidate. EVERY single one of them are human beings and ALL of them have a wart or two somewhere.
WE are going to get exactly nowhere labeling folks we no nothing at all about and you know that as well as I do.
Words mean things, and FR is a contest of words. I will continue to engage vigorously with those who attempt to downplay the importance of the preemininent right of all - the right to live.
You bet your sweet bippy they do!
...and FR is a contest of words.
Indeed it is.
I will continue to engage vigorously with those who attempt to downplay the importance of the preemininent right of all - the right to live.
As you have a perfect right to do but whether or not you choose to recognize the fact, the next presidential election will NOT turn on that issue alone and YOU know that as well as I.
BUMP.
It shouldn't be a contest of volume though.
Think someone didn't hear? Say it a little louder... Maybe they will hear you the next 500 times one says the same thing, ratcheting it up over and over again.
Words and volume are two different things.
Also if one is analysing words, that person has to be honest in their analysis.
If you know the answer you want before you start... there is no room for contest nor discussion.
AMEN!
If you know the answer you want before you start... there is no room for contest nor discussion.
If you meant to say that there can be no discussion if only one answer is satisfactory to one party I agree and the participants in such a discussion should recognize the fact of the impass and agree to disagree and move on.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.