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Posted on 04/02/2009 8:17:33 AM PDT by MaestroLC
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday in front of a crowd that might have been expecting a heavy dose of rally-the-troops conservatism.
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said, after chiding the president's budget. "He will not always be wrong, and he's done some things I agree with."
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan -- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough and shows some backbone because that industry is not going to make it unless we have real backbone and get those guys to fundamentally restructure all of their obligations," he said.
The former businessman even offered faint praise for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps, "I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."
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Good-bye, Mr. Romney. Conservatism is the answer, not people like you and your neo-Statist philosophy. Your way has been an abject failure.
We should consider other more worthy candidates, like Jindal and Palin. We need true Conservatives that can articulate our philosophy.
Mitt Romney is not that person, and certainly not that leader, we should invest in for our future.
LOL the John McCain B team.
eccch
buh bye Mitch
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Oh great, another “Republican” Obama sycophant. Just what we need. We need courageous leaders and we more of this nauseating gruel.
But he has NICE HAIR!!
Mitt,
There’s a hole in your glove.
Marking this in the ‘why I would never vote for Mitt’ column. Instead of praising the President for meddling in private enterprises, he should be chastising him for it.
continuing leftward journey of Mitt Romney: or how a conservative converted cast aside his rebirth.
Romney helped Senate Republicans raise more than $2 million at the fundraiser as they try to regroup in time for the 2010 mid-term elections. Romney, speaking without notes or teleprompter, ultimately drew a familiar line in the sand between Democrats, who he said favor heavy-handed government, and Republicans, who prefer individual freedom and free enterprise.
"I think the American people are seeing through what's happening," he said. "The Democrats are trying to use this crisis as a way to advance their philosophy of the supremacy of government, and I don't think they're being fooled."
Romney claimed the president "incorrectly believes that the 2008 elections settled the great issues that divide America. I don't believe that's the case. I watched the debates. The great issues were rarely discussed at all." Twenty-six GOP senators attended the event, dining under a massive projection screen bearing the slogan: "Republican senators vow to regain majority in 2010."
Ditto. no more gracious to the enemy rich guy rinos!
That Mitt, he’s really one of a kind. Some of the Dems are starting to distance themselves from Obama, yet here comes Mitt, running towards the guy with arms outstretched.
They feel that they have to be gracious because Obama’s personal approval is so high.
One more reason NOT to vote for Romney.
"These are critical times," Romney said. "Defining times for the world and the nation."
Romney talked about what he saw as competing world philosophies, including that of jihadists, and critical times in history, like the Civil War and the American Revolution.
"Republicans are the revolutionaries of the day because we fervently, passionately, ardently believe that the individual accounts for the strength of America today," Romney said.
The former Massachusetts governor and businessman also explained how he sees the Democrats' view on power: that it lies in the hands of government and bureaucrats.
"We recognize it is the power of the individual that's made America what it is," Romney said.
He later continued, "I think the American people are seeing through what's happening. The Democrats are trying to use the crisis to further their philosphy of the supremacy of government ... The American people are not as thick as some would believe or have us believe."
Just another example of why I couldn’t support McRomney.
We desperately need someone like Duncan Hunter.
Good point.
Mitt baby, you’re sounding like a real Masshole lately.
..ditto to that Red...
Standing up to it? I thought he gave it zillions of dollars, then fired the CEO and took it over on behalf of his gold-chained union thug supporters?
We tried that, bragged about that, for 8 long years.
This is obviously the WRONG strategy, especially for the current political environment.
Romney is conceding defeat...any Republican with this attitude and tone shows their hunger for good press.
We are being blackmailed, and Romney is paying the ransom.
I prefer a ruthless SOB, and will take nothing less.
Romney haters at it again. They never listen to what he is saying and most don’t have the intelligence to understand. I’m really surprised we still have so many closed minds on FR.
LLS
No wonder Romney broke out his pompoms.
Yes, but Bush was gracious to Kennedy even when Kennedy
would call him a nazi. I don’t want rudeness but I do want
a tough leader!
And Romney did really well on LK the other night.
I just don't like the lecturing by ANY candidate, to his audience that we have to be “nice” to the UnAmerican Democrat Party who are in the process RIGHT NOW of trying to destroy this country.
I think it is the wrong tact.
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Similar to Romney's other scortched earth tactics:
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
LLS
Yes, we’re too stupid to glean his superiority. Silly us. Why wouldn’t we love a Liberal ex Govenor of MASS?
Guess we’re also too stupid to understand what he’s advocating here....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220664/posts
...As well.
His branch of conservatisism” matches the enligntenment fellow visionaries such as Peggy Noonan, David Frum, Kahleen Parker, and David Brooks would support. Count me out.
LLS
I tried really hard to keep an open mind about Mitt for a long time(- to the point of thinking at least he wasn’t McCain).
These recent remarks have lifted that burden from my mind.
Buh Bye Romney! Spine of jello.
Where are all the Romneybots when you need them. But his hair is nice and he is soooo much smarter than Palin.
“and most don’t have the intelligence to understand”
I have an IQ of 158 and I despise the rat bastard.
LLS
SO, are you against finishing the job in Iraq and Afghanistan?
I’ve decided not to bother anymore. These are the people who gave us John McCain as our nominee, although they didn’t support him at all either, and gave us Obama, because they never could come up with a candidate they all could support.
They believe that just attacking others will somehow win elections next time around.
Ditto!! Sarah Palin 2012!!!
Yes, Mr. 1% will be the solution.
Yep, a bunch of links to people who simply “ask the questions” implicating Romney with no evidence.
In fact, it was the Romney haters who gave us McCain (because they couldn’t align behind any other candidate either), and then they didn’t support McCain and we ended up with Obama.
I don’t know if Romney would have beaten Obama, but he wouldn’t have tanked on the Economy like McCain did, and he wouldn’t have run out of money.
And he probably would have picked a more serious running mate, so as to not lose the biggest advantage we had over Obama — experience.
The idea that McCain lost for any reason other than he was John McCain and tried to look conciliatory during the September meltdown and had no clue what to do with the economy is silly.
Sorry, I got it wrong up above in the thread. It's CRFs, not CRTs. It's froofers, not troofers.
Coulter supported Romney's 2008 GOP presidential run. Ann, fights back calling the critics "crazy Romney froofers," (whatever that is), "fanatics" and "on the order of 9-11 conspiracy theorists."
Which might be a good example of the difference between intelligence and IQ.
That reminds me of a little anecdote about Paul Castellano, former boss of the Gambino Crime family. One time he had all his top guys, his Capos, his hitters, etc, sitting around a table when he praised the cops for being heroes. According to one who was there at that moment, you could have heard a pin drop.
and they wonder why people leave the party? This is a perfect example. I have stated previously that while Romney is a good husband and family man...there is just something about him that I never liked. Have never been able to put my finger on it to date but...perhaps this was what I was seeing and not realizing it.
We left that party a LONG time ago. They have done NOTHING for us.
You are 100% right. The CRFs brought us Obama by rejecting the one person who had the best chance to stop him and now they complain. It’s like the guy who kills his parents and whines about being an orphan. It is certifiable and, apparently, terminal.
I don't trust Mitt Romney. The Romney family has always been firmly in the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party. George Romney fought against Reaganism in the Republican Party. His son assured the voters of Massachusetts that he was not part of the Reagan Revoluation and his governing actions proved it.
Mitt Romney is not the answer for the Republican Party and most definitely not for the conservative movement.
I am not a Romney fan, but I dont hate him. This however makes me wonder. What we need now is an uncompromising individual. Some one who will not “meet in the middle.” Whenever we go to them to be bi-partisan and “compromise” it is conservative principles that are given up and compromised on. I Say NO MORE! NO MORE compromise! NO MORE praise of a president hell bent on destroying our country! NO MORE being the ones who cross the isle. NO MORE BY GOD! NO MORE!
Get lost Romney. You’re in the wrong party.
LLS
Vichyists, all of them, wanting us and our tax dollars invested in “hope he succeeds”. Same fubar communist sucker rhetoric of “tried but implemented wrong”.
Seems like the water torture has given its fruitless fruits of bondage of success to the One, success for truth and America itself be damned, we all got to hope in that Ponzi scheme.
There will be some payment for this, and from unbeknownst corners of debts that these beast breeders and facilitators cannot figure yet.
The economy is the big deal right now. Obama and team are making every wrong turn and even the sheeple are starting to question if he has any idea what he’s doing. What does the MSM do? Try to get the right to cannibalize itself. Take the rights eloquent economic speaker and cast him at every turn as a friend to Obama. — Romney makes a 40 minute speech with a dozen criticisms of Obama, a defense of capitalism, limited government and free markets, and few lines of bipartisan crap — Report the bipartisan crap, keep the sheeple from hearing any of that dangerous limited government talk. Sit back and watch the right fight among themselves. When the economy is not the top issue the guns will turn to Palin or Sanford. Like the scientology/Palin story that came out a few weeks ago, or the Sanford global warming stories that come up whenever he starts to seem to dangerous to the Left. When will we learn?
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