Romney is a lying, flip-flopping, gay-loving, gun-grabbing, flaming liberal...hardly an extraordinarily honest man. U.S. Army Retired |
As they say "Romney is an extraordinarily Honest Man."
Romney is many things, but I have trouble believing he is an extraordinarily honest man. The timing of his changes on social conservative positions is just too coincidental for me to take them at face value. Also, I could not see Bush or any other true pro-life executive agreeing to a $50 copay for elective abortion.
Romney is a gun grabber. That alone makes him unworthy of the presidency.
The good thing about it all is that we here at FR know enough to judge for ourselves.
Both.
excellent. thanks
The more they shriek about alleged dishonesty, the more his opponents confirm that Romney is the man to beat. I can’t wait for Friday.
Thanks for posting this. Typical of the left and numerous articles posted around here attacking Romney.
In other words a Dan Rather attack.
| Romney is a lying, flip-flopping, gay-loving, gun-grabbing, flaming liberal...hardly an extraordinarily honest man. U.S. Army Retired |
LOL
Slicker than snot on a door knob! Flip flopping liberal!
Charles: “Romney is an extraordinarily Honest Man.”
This statement is simply laughable.
Let me help Glen Johnson out:
The Myths of Mitt Romney
“Making it up as he goes along”
MANCHESTER UNION LEADER: “Last week Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of ‘saw’ is. It was only the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims — he’d been a hunter ‘pretty much’ all his life, he’d had the NRA’s endorsement, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. himself — that call into question the veracity of his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his affection for Ronald Reagan. In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes.”
BOSTON GLOBE: “(Romney) ended the week trying to explain a discrepancy between assertion and fact... It hurt because it’s a reminder of discrepancies between assertion and fact when it comes to Romney’s overall conservative credentials.”
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/04/08/guns_trust_and_romney
EYE ON 08.COM: “This is important because it goes to character. Romney struggles to tell the truth and keep his story straight about basic facts about his own life. He also struggles to keep his story straight on issues like abortion, gay rights, taxes, guns... It is clear what Romney is doing. He is just making it up as he goes along. He is making himself up as he goes along.”
http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/04/07/lifetime-hunter-mitt-romney-never-had-license/
Romney said his father marched
with Martin Luther King. He didn’t.
BOSTON GLOBE: “Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King, Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/21/romney_never_saw_father_on_king_march
Romney said he marched with
Martin Luther King. He didn’t.
BOSTON GLOBE: “Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about...racial discrimination, he said: ‘My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.’ Yesterday, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom acknowledged that was not true. ‘Mitt Romney did not march with Martin Luther King,’ he said in an e-mail statement to the Globe.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/21/romney_never_saw_father_on_king_march
Romney said his devoutly religious mother
campaigned for abortion rights. She didn’t.
BOSTON GLOBE: “(Former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman Elly) Peterson is dumbfounded to hear that Mitt Romney has described his mother as having been an abortion rights supporter during (her 1970 U.S. Senate) campaign. ‘If it happened, I’d remember it,’ she said in a telephone interview. ‘It didn’t, and I don’t.’ ...Lenore Romney’s campaign stance is relevant only because her son...raised it in 1994 during a debate with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and he has been sending mixed signals on abortion ever since. ‘I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country,’ he said in 1994. ‘I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate.’ ...Detroit Free Press archives yielded no (Lenore Romney) campaign references to abortion...’The idea that Lenore would defy her church is hard to believe,’ Peterson said.”
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/26/evolving_history
Romney said: “I wasn’t pro-choice.”
Romney said: “I was pro-choice.”
Which is it, Mitt?
FOX NEWS SUNDAY: “I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word ‘pro-choice,’ because I didn’t feel I was pro-choice. I would protect the law, I said, as it was, but I wasn’t pro-choice.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293017,00.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “I think I’ve made it very clear. I was pro-choice, or effectively pro-choice, when I ran in 1994 (and 2002).”
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjo2zpLNAjtxCVkBA1Xn9FYQ5tpQD8TK3G500
Romney said he was endorsed by the
National Rifle Association. He wasn’t.
WASHINGTON POST: “Under Russert’s grilling about guns on this morning’s ‘Meet the Press,’ former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney claimed an endorsement he’d never won. ...’I also was pleased to have the support of the NRA when I ran for governor. I sought it, I seek it now. ...I told you what my position was, and what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA.’ The problem? He was never endorsed by the NRA ... ‘The NRA did not endorse in the 2002 campaign,’ said (Romney campaign) spokesman Kevin Madden, when asked about Romney’s comments.”
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/12/16/romney_claims_nra_endorsement.html
Romney said: “I have a gun
of my own.” He doesn’t.
BOSTON GLOBE: “’I have a gun of my own. I go hunting myself. I’m a member of the NRA and believe firmly in the right to bear arms,’ Romney said. Asked by reporters at the gun show Friday whether he personally owned the gun, Romney said he did not.”
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/14/romney_retreats_on_gun_control
Romney said he’s been a hunter “all
my life.” Twice. Once every forty years.
BOSTON GLOBE: “This week in Keene, N.H., Romney told a man in an NRA hat that he had ‘been a hunter pretty much all of my life,’ the Associated Press reported. The Romney campaign later acknowledged that Romney, 60, hunted one summer as a teenager and once in his late 50’s.”
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/04/08/guns_trust_and_romney
ASSOCIATED PRESS: “Officials in the four states where Mitt Romney has lived say the Republican presidential contender, who calls himself a lifelong hunter, never took out a license.”
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/07/romney_defends_lack_of_hunting_license
Frankly, I’m a bit surprised that PowerLine has come out with this. It’s the first time I’ve disagreed with them about an important matter like this.
Yes, of course, AP lies every time they open their mouths or set their fingers to a computer keyboard.
But Romney has also repeatedly lied or misrepresented or covered up or shifted the blame or excused himself. It’s habitual. I don’t think it’s as intentional or malicious as AP by a long shot, but it does appear to be habitual. He never takes the blame or admits to anything. He constantly shuffles or shifts it off on somebody else.
What do we think of a man who belongs to a pro-life religion like the LDS, who when he is accused of having sold himself as being in favor of abortion when he ran for governor, proceeds to blame it on his mother?
Good grief.
And when he is accused of passing a univeral health bill that provides people with subsidized $50 abortions, he blames it on the Democrats. Sure, they helped, but it was his damned bill. And he’s the guy who signed off on putting a Planned Parenthood representative on the board, though no doubt he blames that on somebody else too.
Ah, let me think ... the AP! :-)
For anyone who can’t decide between Thompson and Romney, just look at Fred’s leadership when he answers the moderator in the “No Hand Shows” video from his website. Watch how Romney scrambles to fall in line with Thompson.
http://www.fred08.com/FredCast/FredCastSummary.aspx#
Romney might be a reasonable choice for President Thompson’s cabinet, if Thompson chooses to give Romney the opportunity.
The Dems are deathly afraid of Romney.....
I think if he were an extraordinarily “Honest Man” he would have said something to the effect of....Although I use to varmint hunt a bit as a kid...IM not really a hunter...BUT I respect the tradition and those that enjoy the sport and am firm believer in the 2nd Amendment!!! (if in fact he is)...Now wouldn’t that have been simpler and more powerful??? I could care less if he hunted or not...but his views on it is the important point!!! I find the lie more offensive then his flip-flops
The AP guy dislikes Mitt as much as about a dozen freepers,and misinterprets, misrepresents and do the full body slam about nothing? Just like the freepers with high blood pressure about Mitt.
If you look back to 92 which I have,a whole lot of people disliked Clinton that viscerally and he was elected anyway, and they still love him no matter what he has done or laws broken. No one has accused Mitt of breaking laws or misuse of cigars.
I guess I can stand by Mitt with his supposed flips.