Posted on 04/07/2008 3:09:59 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- A group of conservatives has taken out an ad urging presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain not to tap Mitt Romney as his running mate.
Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Moral Majority, who once endorsed Romney, is among those calling on McCain to look beyond Romney, his former rival and past governor of Massachusetts, the Los Angeles Times reported.
SNIP- In a newspaper ad, conservatives said Romney is "utterly unacceptable" as a vice presidential pick. The ad questions Romney's commitment to fight abortion and gay rights.
"To be clear, we all welcome anyone who has come around to the cause of life and family. However, Romney's actions as governor flatly contradict both the values widely associated with his faith as well as his pro-life and pro-traditional marriage campaign rhetoric," the ad reads.
The ad first appeared in Prescott, Ariz., where McCain was campaigning, and is expected to appear in other papers where the Arizona senator is on the stump, the newspaper reported.
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I guess now he's endorsing Obama or Clinton.
I’ll take Romney over the other VP hopeful, Condi... who is not even saying she is pro-life.
He is unacceptable to conservatives because he is a liberal. So is McCain.
reagans gone,so if nobody wants to vote for any of the choices this election,
either dont vote or write somebody in.
Then I can only imagine what they would have to say about Rice.
Romney’s inclusion is one of the few things that could conceivably make the McCain nomination even worse than it already is.
But the McCain ticket is entirely unacceptable whether it has Massachusetts Mitt on it or not.
I’m not sure what Weyrich and Company, or any conservative, thinks they’re going to get out of it all, one way or another.
Condi loovves the Pali’s, she is completely unnacceptable.
Any hopes for her were dashed first by NK, then with her constant wasting of our tax dollars on that festering boil on the butt of civilization in the Mid East.
So, I'm sure that McCain knows that Condi isn't up for the task, and that her conservative credentials have been shredded, ergo, in order to stick it to conservatives in particular, and the Republican base in general, he'll be happy to choose her as his running mate.
H3LL, McCain't is unacceptable as GOP President nominee. The GOP might as well try for a complete party collapse.
Hell McCain is unexceptable period.
who are these 20? are they like the gang of 14?
Quite frankly we have RINOS all over, Rice now CAMPAIGNING for the VP slot since her being kicked out of the leadership of state department, and this is the best conservative so called leaders can do?
they are stuck on stupid.
How was Condi kicked out of leadership at the State Dept?
..His exact quote (not mentioned in this article) was (regarding his endorsement of Romney)
"Friends, before all of you and before almighty God, I want to say I was wrong"
Unfortunately, he then compounded his error by endorsing Huckabee.
In case no one noticed, both paths lead into the McCain camp.
So Paul’s words or positions are meaningless. The naive are deceived and misled either way he slices it.
FOOLS. Does anyone in the Republican leadership have a backbone?
Putting Romney on the ticket could only do harm to McCain. McCain needs all the help he can get. lol
“He is unacceptable to conservatives because he is a liberal. So is McCain.”
The unfortunate truth is that if you cross everyone off the list that is ‘unacceptable’ to this or that group of ‘principled conservatives’, there’s no one left on the list. (And that goes for President as well as Vice-president.)
The main reason these folks find him unacceptable is that he’s a Mormon.
Condi is not going to be nominated because she’s too close to Bush. McCain is not that dumb.
Based on a) the things that Conservatives have said are unacceptable so far this election cycle, and b) the actual election results so for, I guess this means that Romney is a shoo-in as McCain’s running mate.
re-write: He is unacceptable to far right wing fringe conservatives because THEY say he is not conservative ENOUGH for them...and thus, a “liberal”.
There is no ONE Conservative. We are a group...with diverse feeling on all issues.
We could do worse than Romney.....
Salami salami BALONEY!!!!!!!
LLS
It's McCain who's practically unacceptable -- not Romney.
Romney was head of my Communist of Massachusetts and he had to swim with my very very Liberal statelings in my People's Republic of Massachusetts.
These Conservatives should cut Mitt Romney some slack.
If someone can find a staunch red meat conservative who is nationally prominent and satisfies the Primary Criterion . . . that he or she has a reasonable chance to bring blue state Electoral Votes to the table to offset the possible loss of Ohio’s to the money MoveOn poured into that state for the last four years . . . great.
Who is that?
Condi Rice earned a PhD apparently before the age of 21 and has served in national security posts for about 8 years now. She is black and a woman. That can erode some black (or female) support for the Dem nominee if that nominee does not select Hillary or Obama as VP — or each refuses). That eroded support could bring some marginal blue states to the table, perhaps Wisconsin or Oregon or Michigan.
Pawlenty can very possibly bring Minnesota’s EVs to the table.
Romney is all about Michigan and really not much else. But Michigan is a big number of EVs and could make the difference.
Are there other options that can win blue state EVs?
That is what I meant.
I’ll take Romney over the other VP hopeful, Condi... who is not even saying she is pro-life.
I’m with you on this one. I think this anti Romney is all about Huckabee
Let's see if Huckabee's truth squad can deny it.
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Yes, that was the stock answer from Romney supporters when he was in the running.
Any statement about issues that showed Romney's stance on Conservative issues and the race card was played.
Sorry, not the race card, but the same mindset.
It was sad to watch
Pretty sad when a guy like Romney is considered “too conservative”.
Bears repeating often, THIS IS a Conservative forum.
That is it in a nutshell....but they will never admit their religious intolerance.
Last Saturday I was trying to explain why I am a Republican to those present at a dinner party. The party was at the home of a couple of attorneys, celebrating the birthday of someone in the music business. Everyone there was a lefty except me. Every time I explained a conservative value, the pinkos would use an example of some Moral Majority Republican to demonstrate that the GOP is not conservative. These Huckabee Yahoos are destroying the party of Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley.
“jeez, conservatives can be so stubborn,they think the only good conservative is somebody who is a carbon-copy clone of reagan,
reagans gone,so if nobody wants to vote for any of the choices this election,
either dont vote or write somebody in.”
Either you’re a 12 y.o. boy OR you forgot your /s tag.....
We’re screwed.
I would love to see Romney as VEEP, if for no other reason, the Huckabigots would cry, scream and no doubt wet their pants. There can be no better theater.
Huckabeee is done in politics. He might do well if he were to just start a business fabricating his Magic Bookshelves. If he quits this backdoor crap, he might have them ready for purchase in time for next Christmas.
I admit I am biased since I strongly supported Romney for the nomination. Nevertheless, I am baffled why these “conservatives” would voice their concern over the possibility of a McCain Romney ticket compared with the others. Romney is by far more conservative than Guiliani, Crist, Lieberman, Rice, Pawlenty, Grahamnesty who are supposedly on the McCain VP list.
The Huckster’s up to his old tricks.
Reagan would be rejected and vilified by these same anti-Romney zealots if Reagan were running for President in 2008.
These people demand 100% agreement with THEIR version of conservatism -- going back to date of birth.
Otherwise, by their standards, you're a lib.
You said: We could do worse than Romney.....
And we certainly could do a helluva lot better.
Weyrich excoriated Reagan after his presidency as having accomplished nothing for conservatism.
Who is that?
Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania? The Specter thing sucked but other than that he's the closest I can think of that fits the bill you describe.
Isn't the LDS just melding into the culture at large, and thus what's there to be against. After all, Mormons are often saying that they are the same. Or different. Or just...who can keep it all straight?
Seeing how Lieberman is a two kitchen sink Jew, Obama a rent-a-pet black American disliking possible President, what facts do you have to say that, by and large, Mormonism (what ever that is) is the reason?
You just seem to have a huge blinding chip. Mitt went down because he was a plastic, odd, cool if not cold, liberal moderate that paint jobbed conservatism. Which even his own paid for study of himself told him.
She in numb from the neck up. The only person of note who was or is in “W”s administration is John Bolton.
These folks are also the ones who would vote Democrat if the party was pro-life. The government should re-distribute income because it's Biblical ya know..... /s
If Romney gets the nod for VEEP, I don't think most Huckabee supporters will care, but you can expect to see half the "Fred is the only ture conservative on the planet" kool-aid drinkers here to cry, scream and no doubt wet their pants. They'll also likely stay home or vote third party, which will result in a Hillary or Obama win, but hey, at least you can feel good about yourself.
I have yet to see any official in the Mormon church deny what Huckabee said. So sorry Huckabee telling the TRUTH about Mormon doctrine offends you much. Maybe any Christian who mentions that Jews do not accept Jesus as their savior is an evil bigot too. How dare anyone mention actual facts about a religious dotrine. Tsk tsk. Fortunately, the fact Romney belongs to a nutty faux Christian religion will not effect how he governs the country, and wouldn't have hindered his ablities -- as I would have GLADLY voted for an actual CONSERVATIVE Mormon like Bob Bennett for President. The fact Romney is a flip-flopping opperturnist who makes Kerry look consistant killed his chances for President.
However, if it makes you feel better to deny reality and continue to spew the mainstream media's talking points about how bigoted and intolerant the evil religous conservatives are in the GOP, go right ahead. The New York Times would love to have you on their side. Remember how Bush was such an evil, nasty bigot for visiting the "intolerant" Bob Jones University? Oh those evil right-wing Chrisitans are such a menace, eh?
>> There can be no better theater. Huckabeee is done in politics. <<
Yeah, yeah, Huckabee's no doubt dead meat because you professional smear artists hurled a bunch of lies against him in Iowa and elsewhere around the country that failed to stick or give your candidate any traction. Personally I'm very proud the founder of FR endorsed Huckabee after your antics, because FR would be done in politics after the backstabbers on this board decided to lynch one of the forum's strongest supporters because he got in the way of the failed candidate they worshiped.
Mitt's a political, tone deaf stiff with no core political principals. Further, he's boring, dull.
Mitt's a technocrat. A grinder. A measure twelve times and take a halfstep. He has no popular support outside of Mormons infatuated with the notion of a Mormon president for Mormonism sake.
What does Mitt bring McCain that he either already has or will get? No, and it's not money, McCain will have plenty.
Fixed. Have a hard time imaginging Crist, Pawlenty, and Graham vigoriously proclaiming their "pro-choice" credentials to get elected and promising to be "better on gay rights" than Ted Kennedy, or trying to enact Hillarycare in their home states for that matter.
It has been pointed out that these "conservatives" against Mitt are Huckabee supporters. That being the case, Huckabee proves himself so weak as a potential vice-presidential hopeful, that the best his supporters can do is bash other potential vp's rather than focus on Huckabee.
Good post.
Mitt would be a drag on the ticket. The Huckabee voters who may vote for McCain will stay away in droves from a McCain/Romney ticket after the way the Romney campaign had a hissy fit, painting Huck as a bigot over a question to a reporter by Huck. McCain would reap what Romney sowed in this instance. McCain can't afford to lose what Evangelical support he may have.
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