Posted on 02/05/2008 2:05:58 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
RINO Romney on Abortion 2002 and 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxV-QNXoRIc&mode=related&search
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGDkKa2OPA
McCain would champion in much the same thing and call it “getting things done” or whatever. We don’t have a candidate in that would lead a resistance against Democrat Healthcare schemes, but I’ll be shot dead if I vote for one that’ll invent a law that takes away my right to put an ad in the paper criticizing it 90 days before an election.
But if you are defending and supporting another piece of lying scum like Romney, you're making a mockery of those supposed principles that lead you to oppose McCain.
""His first budget, presented under a cloud of a $2 billion deficit, balanced the budget with some spending cuts,
but a $500 million increase in various fees was the largest component of the budget fix."
Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.
Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato.
As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal.
As Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told the Boston Globe after the powwow: "Here you have a freshman governor refusing to endorse a tax cut presented by a Republican President at the height of his wartime popularity." As for the anti-tax pledge, a Romney spokesman dismissed it as "government by gimmickry."
ALSO
The Mass. taxpayer's cost of Romney's HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE1 has just surged.
Romney's scheme is sending Massachusetts toward bankruptcy.
Romney's scheme is now costing the MASS taxpayer an extra, unaccounted for,
loss of 1.4 billion dollars per year. Per year. And growing.
Subsidized care plan's cost to double (Uh, oh...bad news for Romney's Healthcare plan)
LLS
So Romney supports a womans right to choose. He said he will enforce the existing laws. What do you expect him to do? I suspect that even if he said that he would change the existing law you would still find fault with him. If this is your “one” issue then you will never find a candidate with whom you can agree.
LLS
The degree to which you're a sellout is not my concern.
The bold print looks plenty desperate.
As I'm sure you can gather, I was responding in kind to a previous post (#4) by a Romney-worshiper in type the same size.
“But if you are defending and supporting another piece of lying scum like Romney, you’re making a mockery of those supposed principles that lead you to oppose McCain.”
That’s a fair reply, but there’s another consideration.
A fundamental principle is that principles need to be applicable to reality. A set of unelectable principles have little values in a free society beyond academia. Romney’s leadership was right of center for Massachusetts, probably as conservative as possible.
What impresses me about Romney beyond the other two liberals is that I think he understands the principles that he has used to lead, buy not attempted to impose on the Massachusetts electorate.
Excellent reply.
and what do you think president mccain will do to every state’s economy? I dont favor either Mccain or Romney but if thems the choice then its Romney. Its like choosing death by hanging or head cut off with a dull knife.
I know it takes awhile to wrap our brains around the idea that there is no real conservative candidate this time.
Face it, there isn’t much use going over the past with these guys because if you do, none of them are what we are looking for.
We aren’t going to be excited this time. Just the way it is.
I have narrowed my choice to choosing whoever all the tough on immigration folks have fallen behind. To me, it doesn’t really matter who the next POTUS is if the person allows the US to be flooded with millions more from south of the border. Thats my bottom line this time.
I see many around here have done the same since Fred dropped out. I do know what I won’t do is vote for the author of the amnesty bill, ever. As for Huck, he is in it to give McCain a boost and he has no chance of winning.
Sad days for conservatives, but I believe our choices and vetting ad nauseum time, has run out for 2008. Eventually it comes down to drawing your line in the sand and facing the reality.
Maybe someday conservatives can get the RINOs out. Right now it is bleak.
Watching all the really fat and sassy Republican country-clubbers come out to back McCain (and go absolutely nuts on anyone who disagrees with them) just makes my decision to leave the GOP seem all the more correct. They're taking revenge on those of us who were uppity enough to stop the McAmnesy bill, and are making certain we won't EVER have a say in the matter again. The GOP establishment needed the stake two years ago, but too many of us - self included - bought the party line BS.
At the time of the Iowa caucus, I was not paying enough attention to how much of the Republican party national apparatus was actually working against Mitt and Fred, believing it was just the MSM to blame. Shame on me; the MSM and the global wing of the GOP seem to have a beautiful working relationship when necessary. All those years of being the ranking Elephant on those communication committees certainly seems to have paid off for Senator McCain on a personal level,
(Not that the "straight talker" has ever been so much as within smelling distance of anything unethical... heavens, no.)
It'll be interesting to eventually find out how far back this all goes and who has been in on it with regards to McCain-Feingold, the alteration of the primary system, and all the other "coincidentals" that seem to have us by the nuts this morning. One thing is for certain here and now: John McCain will not get my vote and will never get my vote. He and the Howard Bakers of the party can play chicken with me, but I'm bound and determined to do my small part and hit them head-on in the voting booth come November.
Mr. niteowl77
SOME DAY I AM GOING TO LEARN HOW TO FREEP IN THAT FONT!!!!!
The difference between McCain and Romney is Romney WAS a liberal who has moved steadily to the right.
McCain was a conservative who has drifted steadily tot he left - so far that he is indistinguishable from a Democrat.
Now he wants us to believe he is still a Republican.
“Folks I really would like to support Mitt, however, I just have a few questions. Here are a few articles that I found on the net regarding Mitt. Boy, I sure would appreciate some answers to these very factual articles and youtube postings. The part that concerns me the most is when one hears Mitt in his own words.”
I don’t think you are going to get any answers from the Flip worshippers, at least not truthful answers. They simply do not care about anything he’s said or done in the past that proves him to be a liar or flip-flopper. Facts don’t matter to these folks, plain and simple. Their heads are up their rear ends and that’s where there going to stay until President Hillary and Vice President Obama win the election.
“Any suggestions”
Yeah, be prepared to be called a hater, biggot, idiot, McCain fanny sniffer, and a host of other lovely names. That’s what happens when you aren’t a group thinker like the rest of these fliparoos. Put your flame suit on because it ain’t gonna be pretty.
No, I didn’t see it... I understand now.
LLS
Calling me a sellout and you sell your soul for msm mythological win. Hmmmmmm.
LLS
How can we trust Miff Romney to lead America? He is a Liar and a Fraud. Don't be fooled.
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