Posted on 01/27/2008 11:15:55 AM PST by SeafoodGumbo
Why wouldn’t he? He is eminently more qualified than any of those three bozos. He is the one guy running that seems to know how to debate and how to fend of attacks.
You can't be that naive. NOBODY is that naive.
Half is better than nothing at all.....LOL. I went to the antique auction and then out to eat and play a little... you know what I mean. :D
It was an obvious choice. The Mitt campaign certainly isn't having any money problems, and the staff isn't working for half salary. Those lawyers probably sabotaged each other's cars and ran as fast as they could to sign on with the cash-rich Romney campaign.
Lawyer jokes are dime-a-dozen. You've no doubt heard the one which asks the difference between a lawyer and a vulture?
Well apparently Mitt Romney hasn't.
At Tuesday's debate, the candidates were asked a hypothetical question about whether he would seek Congress's approval before taking action against Iran. Romney answered this way:
"You sit down with your attorneys and {have them} tell you what you have to do," Romney said, adding quickly "but obviously the president of the United States has to do what's in the best interest of the United States to protect us against a potential threat."
Given a second chance by moderator Chris Matthews, who asked whether President Bush needed the Congressional approval he received for the Iraq invasion, Romney again offered a legalistic answer.
"You know, we're going to let the lawyers sort out what he needed to do and what he didn't need to do," Romney said.
Wow! You set your Huckabeeber to stune.
Saddens me.
Romney will be defeated by Hillary. McCain will not.
And I’m not necessarily a McCain person. I would much rather have had Fred.
Have you ever heard the term “White House Counsel”? Guess what, they advise the president.
And btw, when was the debate that Chris Matthews moderated?
As a lawyer who donated to Fred's campaign, I'm certainly not flocking to any of the remaining candidates. It is more of a question of whether I'll vote for any of them as the lesser of two evils in the general election.
As of now, would hold my nose and vote for Romney or Rudy...will never vote for McInsane or Huckster.
I disagree with your view on McCain vs Hillary.
Big media will ‘have’ to share with ‘the American people’ all the negatives about McCain that they are avoiding now. Conservatives will stay home in droves and the squishy middle will be turned off after the news about his terrible temper, his dumping his sick wife, his bottom of the class record at the Naval Academy, not to forget his Keating Five and Gang of Fourteen.
Big Media are pushing McCain because they know he is very beatable in November = by them!
I wonder if you know this. While McCain claims to be pro-life (and I don’t doubt him at all) he constantly put roadblocks in the way of Senate legislation that would have helped Life issues. Probably so he wouldn’t be on record with votes that would offend his friends in media.
This info is from Rick Santorum who was very frustrated by McCain’s actions of obstruction.
Can you support that right while supporting the Assault Weapons Bill and the Brady Bill?Because,Romney did.
You bad-mouthing Thompson...or Romney...or both?
It’s not 1994. But yes, you could still be a supporter of gun rights and support the brady bill. The brady bill was a bad bill, and a largely useless law that didn’t accomplish it’s goal. It put speedbumps into the purchase of guns.
But I do support background checks to ensure that people who we all agree should NOT be allowed to purchase weapons (felons, known terrorists, insane people) do not actually purchase weapons.
I do not see any of our candidates suggesting that we should get rid of the instant background checks.
The AWB was a bad bill, and didn’t accomplish it’s purpose, but people who were generally for guns could support it in a misguided notion that some weapons were too dangerous to have in the public’s hands.
That would be a bad reading of the 2nd amendment, but some people who generally support you also oppose you once in a while. Politics is the art of compromise and partial victories. The National Right to Life organization endorsed Fred Thompson as a “pro-life” candidate. But he supported abortion for rape and incest, which to a real pro-life person makes no sense at all (why would the personhood of the pre-born be effected by the method of conception?)
By the standards used against Romney on his 1994 support for the 1994 AWB and the 1994 Brady bill (he would NOT support re-passing the 1994 AWB as president, and supports Brady’s background checks but not the waiting period), we should have all called Fred Thompson pro-abortion.
Let's get the record straight. First of all, there's no question that I support 2nd Amendment rights, but I also support an assault weapon ban. Look, I've been governor in a pretty tough state. You've heard of blue states. In the toughest of blue states, I made the toughest decisions and did what was right for America. I have conservative values. Source: 2007 Republican Debate in South Carolina May 15, 2007
The Brady Bill has changed over time, and, of course, technology has changed over time. I would have supported the original assault weapon ban. I signed an assault weapon ban in Massachusetts governor because it provided for a relaxation of licensing requirements for gun owners in Massachusetts, which was a big plus. And so both the pro-gun and the anti-gun lobby came together with a bill, and I signed that. And if there is determined to be, from time to time, a weapon of such lethality that it poses a grave risk to our law enforcement personnel, that's something I would consider signing. There's nothing of that nature that's being proposed today in Washington. But I would look at weapons that pose extraordinary lethality. Source: Meet the Press: 2007 "Meet the Candidates" series Dec 16, 2007
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