Real Romney Record in Massachusetts

Berkshire Eagle OnLine ^ | 02-02-08 | Matt Kinnaman

[BufordP]

WOW! Yeah, I can see everyone running to Fred after having gotten his butt kicked in the earlier primaries.

I like Fred too. I'm in the minority.

[Jim Robinson]

No, the fact that we have three wannabes splitting the vote and not one will receive the requisite number of votes/delegates to win is just happening. No engineering involved. If the convention is deadlocked there’s no telling what might happen. One of the possible outcomes is that they cannot settle on RomneyMcHuck, so have to look elsewhere. One can pray that the one who can unite the factions is a conservative.

[Petronski]

Then it really won't matter who wins.

Why the future tense? It already does not matter which of these five fools wins.

[BufordP]

yeah
romney=mccain=huckabee=paul=petronski
yeah

[Petronski]

Oooh, a personal attack. You must be a Romney supporter.

[BufordP]

Look, if you have Alladin’s lamp it would be nice if you’d let us in on that. Then we all would be confident in your pie-in-the-sky prediction. My prediction: the last best hope of having a candidate with even a modicum of conservative blood will tank in deference to McCain. No brokered convention. No conservative savior.

[Jim Robinson]

Doesn’t require a lamp to see that if Huckabee stays in, the vote remains split. If he drops out, McCain gets the benefit.

[BufordP]

I was being sarcastic. The absurd "moral equivalence" arguments are worthy of liberals. If I wasn't being sarcastic I would have written ...>petronski.

I'm hardly a Romney sychophant. But I don't suffer from Romney Derangement Syndrome either.

[BufordP]

I guess we’ll know soon enough.

[khnyny]

You don’t know a damn thing about the Cato Institute, do you? If it was Heritage, I’d believe it.

Btw, Romney was able to cut spending more than Huckabee. More, even, than was actually claimed.

[Petronski]

My deepest apologies.

I misunderstood you, and moods around here are on edge (not the least of which, mine, to say the least).

That light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, bedecked with red flags and socialist slogans.

[BufordP]

No apologies necessary. I liked Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson. But I was amazed an appalled at all the vitriol directed at all the [everyone but my candidate goes here] on FR. Counter productive. Your candidate drops out, then what do you do. Got to have backups.

That's how I think anyone who considers themselves grown-up would look at it.

Now Romney is the most conservative candidate. Still the vitriol continues hoping for a brokered convention. Pipe dream. Something we call in pool, a low percentage shot. Do something else.

I make exception for McCain. He hates us. He deserves all the vitriol we can dish out.

[jmyrlefuller]

If he was any good the Massachusetts GOP would have gained seats in the legislature. But they didn’t. Heck, at least one county could have voted Bush in ‘04 under Romney’s leadership. Nope.

Did he do anything to build a case for his supposed conservatism, to actually try and get it through? To win over minds? Not a chance.

Bubbles the Chimp could have sat in the Massachusetts Governor’s seat and done more for the conservative cause than Mitt Romney did if you believe this perspective.

Mitt Romney: He’ll say anything to get elected, but he’ll do none of it once he is elected.

[Saundra Duffy]

Sean Hannity is a “sell out” to a “cult candidate”? What an odd thing to say.

By the way, since you obviously did not read the article: “Romney did the politically impossible in Massachusetts. He stood athwart the most tax-happy Legislature in the nation and shouted “stop!” And he won. As governor, Romney displayed precisely the economic leadership needed from the next president.”

I wish the anti Romney zealots who desperately want Hillary or Obama to be president would get lost already.

Go, Mitt!

[Cacique]

btt

[Beagle8U]

It wasn’t Romney’s fault. Like his father before him, he was brainwashed.

[ChessExpert]

Ann Coulter said long ago that she was sometimes more impressed by the performance of Republicans in liberal states than by the performance of Republicans in conservative states. She had Romney in mind. To tilt right in MA is very hard.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

And how is John McCain truly better for all of U.S. conservatism? All of the remaining Presidential choices for the GOP stink, but they are all also not conservative enough. Most conservatives are also familiar with all of Senator McCain’s anti-conservative ways during McCain’s entire duration of being a U.S. Senator, and this is also a long list.

[Petronski]

Well then my testimony will disappoint you. My attitude is “a pox on all their houses.” The five fools I mentioned above are Clinton-Huckabee-McCain-Obama-Romney.

I have no use for any of them and do not harbor any sky-pie dreams of a brokered convention.

I do, however, consider myself grownup, as do many many others.

[K-oneTexas]

I can't remember or keep track. What Talk Show Host have said they are for Romney?

Was it only Levin and Hewitt, so far? I didn't hear Laura Ingram or Ann Coulter said specifically they were. Just like Rush not saying one way or the other.

Political endorsements don't sway folks that much, at least I don't think so. On that same line, have any US Senators come out for Romney? I head of only a few Congressmen and women that have.