Posted on 01/27/2009 6:00:49 AM PST by EternalVigilance
Who are you talking about?
I totally agree with those here that Romney would have been WAY better than McLame. To state Romney compromised (changed stance on abortion which...So did I), yet McLame is a flaming liberal with an R after his name.
he ran a pathetic campaign, telling us obummer would make a fine president and we shouldn’t be scared of him.
At least Romney has a boatload of FIGHT in him and recognizes the enemy, both foreign and domestic.
I sure saw Human Events Babbin, Ann Coulter and David Limbaugh lead in the charge to stop Obama this past election cycle. I did not see or hear any of these guys in major print or on television trying to stop him. And behind the scenes they must have little credibility with the religious voters because Obama got a larger margin than usual from that voting bloc. So back at ya with your “bullhockey”. I do not need anymore holier than thous that do not do a damn thing but complain and take no action. These folks stood on the sidewalk and watch Zero pass them by.
I don't think these three in particular have "gone over to the dark side." But, I do think they need to take a step back and get some perspective, to get back to the core principles that are at the heart of conservatism. And then they need to act on it without regard to how doing the right thing will affect their little kingdoms.
Read your own article.
Oh, I read it.
Yep.
I don’t know if he would have won, but I do know that when the economic meltdown official became political fodder (September 15th, 2008) Romney would have been THE MAN on the topic.
We’ll never know, however. Between the single issue voters, and those like Huckabee ate up with the goofies about Mormons..well, we ended up with a RINO that received a tepid 37% of Republican votes in the primaries.
McCain cost the GOP four points in my view, in the election cycle all by himself, for the reasons we all know well.
Whats telling is how some know this, but play ‘dumb’ as we see here.
I don’t want to argue with anyone, but I think there was this push towards people in the primary season last year like Romney, Thompson even Huckabee that was all designed to split votes up so McCain would win.
Right now I’m afraid that inside the beltway crowd like Mr. Babbin may want Willard M. Romney to be the next GOP candidate for president.
I put Sarah Palin first in line myself, but I will wait to see how she participates in the 2010 primaries to form a fuller opinion of her.
Reagan supported some RINO’s in his day, but Palin better stay away from Arlen Specter in my state or my estimation of her will decline.
Many of the posts on this thread are a vivid demonstration of several things:
1) Why it is so easy for a complete liberal fraud like Romney to take over the Republican Party, which he has already done.
2) Why ideologically shallow leadership in the so-called conservative movement matters.
Sound advice.
It may be a good bill of goods against Romney. And you won't listen? How open-minded is that?
Look, if Romney did the things that are said that he did, then he engaged in gross deception of conservatives when he campaigned for the nomination.
I suspected that he was another "too cool for school" country-club Republican, another social snob who couldn't rub elbows with "those people", the troglodytes who helped nominate first Barry Goldwater and then Ronnie Reagan, or even level with them about where he was coming from.
It was good enough to fob them off with half-truths, to manage them, just to get "the right kind of people" in the White House again -- Ivies, snobs, cultivated secularists hiding behind a rotten facade of pretended belief and phony political solidarity with churchgoing, dues-paying, tax- and bill-paying conservatives.
At some point you have to admit it, that Mitt Romney was just another Obama with a slightly different agenda. Same schools, same mannerisms, same tastes, same social milieu -- New Mandarin .... and very probably the same beliefs about leadership and what makes people and politics tick.
So how do you get another Ronald Reagan or Sarah Palin out of that?
Agreed.
Another point I want to make is, there are certain people on this forum that go BALLISTIC that Romney used to be pro abortion. Isn’t that what we want, PAST TENSE?
I used to be VERY pro abortion in my ignorant days. I would bet at least 50% of the people on this board, at some time in their past lives, either were pro abortion or totally complacent to it.
Things change, thank GOD, and people are waking up to the ramifications of abortion and changing. Romney included.
I for one, am grateful he came around.
The guy knows how to put libs in their place and to argue the conservative point succinctly. McLame was THEE most pathetic candidate we could’ve ever had and even though I’m petrified of obummer I’m on-my-knees thankful mclame did NOT win and forever taint what the lemming masses see as ‘conservative’.
This manifesto almost sounds like you are accusing Ann Coulter and David Limbaugh of being liberal.
‘Another point I want to make is, there are certain people on this forum that go BALLISTIC that Romney used to be pro abortion. Isn’t that what we want, PAST TENSE?’
Yep. Ironically, many of those posters seem to think the vote by Collins, McLame, Spector make them ‘okay’ and I shouldn’t point out the cynicism of it.
Weird when you to an ‘overview’ to say the least.
Why? He's a socialist just like the rest of them. A very successful socialist. His credentials in this regard are enough to fill James Carville with admiration.
What double standard? Truth-telling? Honesty in discourse?
Please explain.
You make my point for me. Unintentionally, but still....
Thanks.
This is exactly the season to go RiNO-hunting.
They've laid waste the GOP and the conservative movement in the 2006-2008 election cycle with nobody forcing their hands. Denny Hastert, Ted Stevens, McCain, Romney, the turncoat commentariat -- all of them. They had their innings, they had money, they pushed conservatives aside and kicked us to the curb. They had their turn. And they left nothing but wreckage and rising smoke behind them, and a Red Diaper socialist in the White House, with Weathermen in his kitchen cabinet.
They're fair game starting right this minute.
The hell he does. Where was Mitt Romney when Lambda Legal, with homosexual "marriage" on the docket before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, sent Mary Bonauto to bring the Chief Justice herself to a Lambda honors dinner to receive an award? Where was Mitt's outrage? When did he put his foot down about that bagatelle?
Where was the people's vote on homosexual "marriage"? When did Mitt Romney facilitate that, to stop the slow-walking 'Rats from stopping a vote in the legislature, and cutting off a plebiscite on the subject?
Where was Mitt Romney when the Chief Justice made her power play, ordering gay marriage be instituted on a short fuse, precisely so the People could have no say?
Where was Mitt when the enemies of the Republic ran wild?
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