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Club For Growth On Romney
Campaigns & Elections ^ | August 21, 2007

Posted on 08/21/2007 4:02:05 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CLUB FOR GROWTH REPORT

Club For Growth: "As Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney's record on economic issues was generally good. He demonstrated a willingness to take on his Legislature and deserves credit for the many pro-growth measures he advocated and the modest reforms he was able to achieve." (The Club For Growth, "Mitt Romney's Record On Economic Issues," Press Release, 8/21/07)

Club For Growth: "[G]iven his outstanding private sector entrepreneurial experience; the strong pro-growth positions he has taken on the campaign trail; his overall record as governor; and the fact that the U.S. Congress will not be as liberal as the Massachusetts Legislature, we are reasonably optimistic that, as President, Mitt Romney would generally advocate a pro-growth agenda." (The Club For Growth, "Mitt Romney's Record On Economic Issues," Press Release, 8/21/07)

(Excerpt) Read more at campaignsandelections.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clubforgrowth; electionpresident; elections; mittromney; romney
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1 posted on 08/21/2007 4:02:13 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued
I notice that they didn't look at his weasel record on every other issue.
2 posted on 08/21/2007 4:06:34 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: Reaganesque; restornu; Canticle_of_Deborah; elizabetty; TAdams8591; Saundra Duffy; EmilyGeiger; ...

This is an measured editorial from a strongly conservative group which is primarily focused on economic issues. It’s view of the Romney record is positive for the most part.


3 posted on 08/21/2007 4:08:32 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Clintonfatigued

bump


4 posted on 08/21/2007 4:10:06 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!!!)
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To: Little Bill

this is a one issue group like the NRA


5 posted on 08/21/2007 4:13:25 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Little Bill

“I notice that they didn’t look at his weasel record on every other issue.”

If Club For Some People’s Growth is for Romney, I’ll have to be against him, I’m afraid.


6 posted on 08/21/2007 4:15:34 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Clintonfatigued

Does “growth” in this context, consist of exporting jobs and sending all our money overseas?...

(just wondering)

Seems like that’s the most common definition these days.


7 posted on 08/21/2007 4:15:50 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Communist China: Walmart's answer to that pesky 13th Amendment.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Other media coverage of the same CFG white paper on Romney:

Boston Herald - Casey Ross
Washington Times - Brian DeBose
The Politico - Jonathan Martin
The Atlantic - Marc Ambinder
Townhall.com - Matt Lewis
New York Sun - Ryan Sager
New York Times - Michael Luo
Real Clear Politics - Tom Bevan
The American Spectator - Jennifer Rubin

As you can see, it received quite a bit of attention in the media.
8 posted on 08/21/2007 4:21:37 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
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To: Clintonfatigued
This is the link to the original white paper in HTML format. It's footnoted and sourced, a good brief reference to Romney's record. Mittsters will find a link to download a PDF copy as well.

Club for Growth Releases Fifth Presidential White Paper: The Romney Record: Promise and Puzzlement
9 posted on 08/21/2007 4:25:56 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudy: tough on terror, scared of Iowa, wets himself over YouTube)
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To: Little Bill

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I notice that they didn’t look at his weasel record on every other issue. <<<

You mean like the other weasels running for office who are afraid or incapable of speaking competently on the issues that will make our economy competitive into the next century?

I don’t hear anyone else speaking on the level of corporate taxation, tort reform, or competing in Asian markets. Romney was the first that I know of to speak on keeping the best and the brightest here in the US and overhauling our student visa system. Or addressing the failure of the middle class to save, the collapse of social security, and thus the need for tax-free capital investment.

And nor do I hear any candidate with half a campaign speaking as in-step with the base on the issue of immigration reform and controlling and reversing illegal immigration.

Over and over again, it’s Romney who graps the economic burdens our nation is bearing and who has an idea of how to lead us down that path.

But yes, he changed his mind on abortion. How terrible.


10 posted on 08/21/2007 4:26:50 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

>>>Does “growth” in this context, consist of exporting jobs and sending all our money overseas?...<<<

That’s the thing: Romney has been speaking about the US’s rate of corporate taxation. Be honest: would it surprise you to know that only Germany and Canada have higher rates?

Even the UK’s is 25% lower than in the US.

Jobs will continue to go overseas when our economic climate is punitive, which it is now. Just as a for instance, the rate of corporate taxation in Hungary is 16%, as I recall. It’s 39.8% here in the US. Guess which nation is more business friendly?

Even France and Sweden are beating the US into a pulp in that respect.


11 posted on 08/21/2007 4:30:11 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: Shermy

You were already against him.


12 posted on 08/21/2007 4:31:12 PM PDT by mbraynard (FDT: Less Leadership Experience than any president in US history)
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To: CheyennePress

We need to maintain BALANCED trade.

Better yet, we should strive to create a trade surplus.

We are spending our national treasure on things manufactured in China on manufacturing lines which USED to be in America.

China in turn is spending all those billions (approximately 20 billion every month) on nuclear missiles and aircraft carriers, which they will be using to challenge our troops.

And this is “growth”?


13 posted on 08/21/2007 4:33:09 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Communist China: Walmart's answer to that pesky 13th Amendment.)
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To: Shermy
If Club For Some People’s Growth is for Romney, I’ll have to be against him, I’m afraid.
Read the whole thing, they find an awful lot they don't like.

I read all of them and the two candidates they REALLY like are Brownback and Giuliani.
14 posted on 08/21/2007 4:42:50 PM PDT by elizabetty (The funding dried up and I can no longer afford Tagline Messages.)
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To: Little Bill
I notice that they didn't look at his weasel record on every other issue.

The assessment of Romney was mixed.

Clintonfatigued cut out the parts where they expressed concern about Romney's socialist health plan, his support for higher taxes, and his radical anti-1st Amendment views on campaign finance.

15 posted on 08/21/2007 4:44:18 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Romney : "not really trying to define what is technically amnesty. I'll let the lawyers decide.")
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Romney on Free Trade v. Fair Trade with China and the world:


Well surely free trade is a source of additional economic vitally for our country. It’s been calculated that the average American family earns an extra six thousand dollars a year by virtue of the free trade that we enjoy around the world. At the same time, no one could be oppose to fairness in our trade and with regards to our relationship with China, the fact that they have pegged their currency at an artificially low level to the dollar presents a competitive disadvantage for us and an advantage for them and that’s something we’d like to see end. Interestingly, when the original trade, now the WTO agreements were reached, the idea of pegging currencies was normal; that was the standard; now we book currencies so there’s nothing in these provisions to basically sanction China for doing what they’re doing. But it clearly puts us at a disadvantage and that’s something we’re going to have to change. China has been making some progress in that the Yuan has been devalued by about, it should be revalued by about eight percent over the last several months. But there is more to be done there and a greater interest in some respects is protection of intellectual property. Much of what we sell to the world is in the form of patents and technology and if nations steal that technology and it means we’re losing the commercial value that we worked hard to create. So there’s a lot of work that we are going to have to do to make sure that our trade is fair and it is balanced. I don’t like signing fair trade agreements that don’t present an advantage to us. I hope it presents an advantage to the other guy too, but it’s got to be two sided at least and I’m not going to go out and sign agreements that puts us in a disadvantage but avoiding trade is a sure way for America to become not competitive and ultimately not be a major power, that of course, would be a very bad course to take and is not what our nation will take.


16 posted on 08/21/2007 4:45:53 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Well, it’s not just about balanced trade. It’s time to begin competing:

>>>>Romney, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, spoke about a growing gap in technology and education between countries like China and the United States. He described a conversation he’d had with a leader of a Massachusetts high-tech company, who said he expected that in 10 years, 90 percent of his employees will be in Asia.

“I was shocked,” said Romney. “China alone graduates seven times the number of engineers that we are.”<<<<

The US workforce is growing evermore inferior. We’re supposed to be competing technologically with the rest of the world, and we frankly are failing. The US also produces fewer engineers than Germany.

At the moment, one of every 5 engineers and scientists in the US is born and educated overseas. Our educational system is not working.


17 posted on 08/21/2007 4:46:54 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: Clintonfatigued
The report was originally posted here .
18 posted on 08/21/2007 4:48:17 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Clintonfatigued
This is a duplicate, of course. Why did you excerpt from a website that just reposted the Club for Growth press release?

Cross-linking to the original post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884443/posts
"Romney's Record: Promise and Puzzlement"

19 posted on 08/21/2007 4:50:24 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Romney : "not really trying to define what is technically amnesty. I'll let the lawyers decide.")
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To: Clintonfatigued

Stephen Moore, who founded and ran the Club, was a major immigration advocate. He’s not with them now, though, so maybe they’ve straightened out on that.


20 posted on 08/21/2007 4:50:41 PM PDT by x
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