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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Mormons, Muslims, Scientologists, Jehova's Witnesses, Heaven's Gaters and other cultists should stop trying to "dumb down" Christianity by putting forth candidates and claiming "persecution" when they don't get the backing they want. This in nothing more than an attempt to infiltrate the mainstream.
This nation was founded on Christian Principles, by Christians. It's greatets leaders, Washington, Lincoln, Reagan were all Christian.
The mormons, like John Kerry, were against Christianity, before they were for it...
"Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." – Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.167
"The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God." – Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses 8:171
"Are Christians ignorant? Yes, as ignorant of the things of God as the brute beast." – Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 13:225
"What does the Christian world know about God? Nothing... Why so far as the things of God are concerned, they are the veriest fools; they know neither God nor the things of God." – Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses 13:225
"The Book of Mormon remains secure, unchanged and unchangeable … but with the Bible it was not and is not so … it was once in the sole and exclusive care and custody of an abominable organization (Christianity), founded by the devil himself, likened prophetically unto a great whore, whose great aim and purpose was to destroy the souls of men in the name of religion. In these hands it ceased to be the book it once was." – Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, The Joseph Smith Translation, pp. 12, 13
In bearing testimony of Jesus Christ, President Hinckley spoke of those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints "do not believe in the traditional Christ." No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak. – Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS Church News, June 20, 1998, p.7
Yep. He's built too low. The fast ones go right over his head.
(One too many viewings of Foghorn Leghorn attemping to be a father figure to the Widder Hen's egghead son ... "There's somethin' kinda yeeeeeeeeeeehgh about a boy who don't like baseball!")
Truly, conservative principle sails right over Romney's head. He's bad news for the GOP. Go away, Mitt. Leave.
Anybody uses the word "hate" to describe the motivation for their opponents, is a shallow sheep-like condescending jerk with zero imagination and even less perception of reality, but a very fragile ego. Rush correctly uses the word "hate" to describe how liberals feel about conservatives; you stupidly, meanly, and lazily use the word "hate" to describe my and others' reasons for opposing Mitt.
You and Mitt can go jump in a lake as far as I'm concerned -- it would certainly be better for the Republic if Romney did just that.
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Oh, dear me. Dear me.
You think that promoting Mitt will be anything but disaster for the GOP ... AGAIN. You are willfully, blindly, stupid, engaging in the defnintion of insanity, and in true Romney supporter fashion, blaming it on everybody else with a poignant self-pitying whine in your voice.
Romney is a loser. Accept it and move on.
Well, excluse me for pointing out the obvious, and it's not your fault that you don't realize it, but many geniuses understand that your real problem is that you're a "Romney hater." /sarcasm
The MSM didn't put Obama in the White House. Voter fraud did that, and even Democrats know that if not for ACORN, Obama would likely have lost.
Where the MSM serves Obama and voter fraud is in building the illusion that a majority of America loves Obama, and that illusion is so life-like that it has even Republicans and conservatives buying it and discounting the truth that Obama's "strong" popular support is a fairy tale and that voter fraud was the technical way he got into office.
The truth is that voter fraud has been "erased" from public consideration because the MSM has convinced so many people of the illusion that most Americans like and support Obama; yet that is illusion, just as it was illusion created by the MSM that Hillary was wildly popular and guaranteed to be the Dem nominee. That illusion successfully led the GOP to "pragmatically" choose its nominees via a playbook written by the liberal MSM.
What does all this have to do with your charge that Republicans are allowing themselves to be manipulated by the MSM into infighting? I'll tell you: it is connected because you are giving the MSM validity and legitimacy that only fools allow it to wield.
Seeking to oust big government moderate Republicans like Romney from our midst is hardly an example of the right cannibalizing itself -- it is an example of Republicans and conservatives finally waking up to reality. You can worry about how the MSM presents it and twists it and tweaks it until you are blue in the face. It doesn't alter the fact that the MSM is in the business of creating illusion, and that people who object to Romney aren't doing so because the MSM tells them to, they're doing it because Romney betrays conservative principle and is an enemy within.
I see your point. I made the statement during the campaign that Mitt Romney's nomination would be the greatest PR disaster in the history of the Mormon Church. By the time the Democrat operatives and their MSM allies got through with the LDS Church, no one would look at the Mormons the same way again. If they think they get rough treatment on the FR, they were totally unprepared for what would have been unleashed.
What do you mean by "immigration reform?" Some form of pandering to Hispanics and pro-illegal alien groups in the hopes of getting their votes? What do you imagine Romney is advocating?
But for the sake of argument, let's assume that Romney, in a very inept way, is trying to say that he wants immigration enforcement and not amnesty. He wants "immigration reform" passed before the next election. Since the Dems control congress and the presidency, they are not going to allow any such sensible changes. So at best, Romney has no clue about when we might be able to make sensible changes in immigration policy. At worst, he is willing to give the leftists a golden opportunity to add tens of millions of new leftist voters in the future.
It's true that Palin seemed to be going along with McCain on amnesty, and she has time to reconsider her position, but IFAIK you are wrong about Thompson and Huckabee. But if they flip over to the dark side they won't get my vote either.
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Mark Levin doing a number on Mittens and his cockamamy remarks now.
[I know, I was one of them until just recently. I discovered all the secrets they try so hard to hide, WHILE DEFENDING ROMNEY HERE, and resigned from the chruch. ]
Good to see you Sentinel. A lot of people just have no clue, in my humble opinion, how Mormonism causes Romney to make incorrect political judgments. Mormonism if a religion of works (Romneycare for example) rather than grace. That means in the end Romney will always capitualate to the left. Look at Hatch, look at Governor Gibbons here in Nevada. I live in heavily Mormon Vegas and see this sort of thing all the time.
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Neither would I. This is how we get into these kinds of situations and lose elections. Tell me they are not in it for their own personal gains.
McCain/Palin was such a winner for us.
Hunter was such a winner. Thompson was such a winner.
Jindal is our savior, except for a couple of months this past spring a good portion of FR was throwing him under the bus.
What is really at work here is that a good number of us at FR no longer have any desire to put up with blind haters and bashers.
Offer ideas and philosophy and a candidate who can articulate them — you’ll find that’s a LOT harder than just running around squealing like a stuck pig about how bad everybody else is.
I have no idea if Romney could have won. I just know that McCain lost, and lost big, and took down some good republican representatives with him here in my state, where he should have kicked butt because we have a large military presence.
But when our party head tried to take it to Obama, McCain shot him down, which made it easy for the democrats to steal this state.
Reagan wasn’t a rigid ideologue. He was a smart, principled man with good conservative principles who knew how to communicate and when to make deals.
uncompromising individuals are important to have, but not to the point of attacking a President when he does the right thing just because you want to oppose him at every turn.
Given the high IQ marks of some of our biggest liberal opponents, I think the concept of IQ and intelligence being independent is pretty clear.
Why you want to bring your wits into the equation, well that’s for you to figure out.
When Obama does something right, I’m not going to attack him for it. Doesn’t make sense.
When you figure out how the rigid conservatives managed to let McCain be our nominee, explain how that worked out for the rest of us.
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