My thanks to whoever posted this thought first, but I had to put it up as a romney campaign sticker:
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.
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California has not got it right since Reagan. Rudy is nothing but Arnie in drag.
Good call by you. Still it is surprising that Rudy has gained traction so fast, and McCain has fallen so fast.
No, it doesn't. I just clicked on your homepage, and the first thing you do there is attack pro-lifers. Didn't anybody clue you that this is a prolife conservative website?
As to your tagline, that's beyond the pale by about 500 miles, Lefty.
I didn't mean for my comment to be an ideological one. Some supporters of all the candidates have been unnecessarily caustic, including many Rudy supporters.
To the New Republic, FDR was a right wing fanatic.
My criteria are pretty much identical to the guy who buys the bandwidth around this joint. Take it up with him. And you can take your tagline and stick it, Lefty.
They used to call his father "Romney the Rambler."
"By the way, since when are you the judge and jury of whats conservative or not?"
That's one line I hear repeatedly from the most liberal FR members.
Let's play the RINO disconnect game:
"Who are you to say who is conservative and who isn't?"
"Rudy / Romney are really conservatives"
"Duncan hunter can't win because he's too conservative, so we have to run someone like rudy or romney, because they appeal to moderates..but they're still conservatives!"
At times it's almost dizzying.
Actually TNR is a bascially neo-liberal, which means moderate left of center, although it has writers that range from caustic liberal, to neocon. The mag has many excellent articles filled with solid information. It is one of the more worthwhile mags out there. No, I disagree with the writers there more than I agree with them -- just for the record.
Romney the Rambler II
Yeah, right. And I bet you think Lefty's tagline is a loving bouquet of red roses.
Probably that he's found an effective, and proper way to deal with the Drive-by-Media !! (Adopt their technique)
Murtha and Reid are pro-lifers in the same sense that Giuliani and Romney are pro-lifers...through occasional lipservice when they want something electorally, and seldom if ever in deed.
Please lose the tagline. Thanks.
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