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Posted on 04/04/2009 11:52:23 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The decision today by the Iowa Supreme Court that ruled a ban on same-sex marriage in the Hawkeye State unconstitutional is certain to have an impact on the state's critical Republican presidential caucuses in 2012.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008 and is an almost-certain candidate in 2012, did offer a comment on the decision when asked by the Fix.
"I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman and the definition of marriage should be left to the people and not to activist courts," Romney said.
Romney struggled to convince social conservatives of his bona fides during the 2008 campaign due to his past statements in support of gay rights. He is making sure there is no such uncertainty in the minds of social conservatives next time around.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
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That's really all the Romneybots have. "Next time around" he'll maybe win. "Next time around" he'll maybe be Conservative. Or not.
I’m so danged annoyed! First I had to re-register Republicken in order to vote Republicken in our first CA early primary, but already by that time all the viable conservatives had either dropped, or were hopelessly behind the curve. So we voted for Romney with gobs of rationalizations running through our minds and stubbornly refusing to vote for Juan McLame, or to sit out the election.
Counterfeit marriage for homosexuals is alive and well in Mass., Mr. Romney.
this man is not a conservative. He is the ultimate RINO. More of a RINO than McQueeg (who is more of a Democrat).
Just a sampling of the neo-Statist Mitt Romney just this week....
Romney Lets His Conservative Mask Slip
Romney breaks with GOP on the issue of deregulation [and immigration reform]
Romney strikes bipartisan tone at GOP fundraiser (praises Obama)
Romney: Don't root for Obama to fail
Romney backs Obama auto decision, praising 'backbone'
A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
Mr. Romney, the definition of marriage was defined by God in the beginning.
Saying it should be defined by people is pandering to homosexuals.
Wasn’t he cheerleading TARP? ANd wasn’t he the fastest draw when the schoolmarm debate moderator asked who believed globull warming to be a serious problem?
The trouble with Republicans is that they spend so much time telling us who they are against, there is no energy left to build up who they are for. As a result the MSM does that for them.
Romney was against abortion til he wanted office in Taxachusetts...then he was for it...then when he wanted the GOP nomination...he was against it.
How can anyone trust this guy?
That is completely out of the liberal media mantra.
The problem with the GOP is that they have lost their soul and will accept any candidate with a heartbeat regardless of their lack of conservative bonafides. The party is infested with moderates and their idiot sycophants who are more than willing to stab the base in the back to win election.
Until the party rejects RINOs like Romney, and drives out their limp-wristed sycophants, it is a dead party.
“Just a sampling of the neo-Statist Mitt Romney just this week....”
Sure. After all, if the MSM prints it, it must be true. /s
Marriage IS a man and a woman, united for life. That is the reality, that IS WHAT IT IS. No matter what anyone believes. Your belief Mr. Romney, noes not enter into anything, reality does. You can call a horse a cow, believe it's a cow or not believe it's a cow, it it still a horse! Likewise an apple is not an orange no matter what anyone “believes” it to be, blue is not yellow, no matter what anyone “believes” it to be. AND a man is not a woman and vise versa, no matter how many operations they have to change it, no matter what anyone “believes” they are. Facts are facts, reality is reality, and words have meaning.
There really is no debate here.
Get the Republicans fighting and criticizing among themselves so they are so occupied they fail to build up a viable candidate. Tell the Republicans no one is perfect enough for them. Whomever the Republicans don't destroy by themselves, the MSM will undermine the rest. Then a few of the faithful democrats can cross over and nominate some liberal Republican that the rest of the Republicans find hard to support.
It is a sure fire strategy for destroying the Republicans. It lets the super critical Republicans do most of the work for them.
The Constitution protects individuals; not relationships.
Yup.
Marriage is, by definition, an exclusivity contract, moral, social, and legal, between one man and one woman, of legal majority, that carries certain pre-defined and legally sanctioned rights and responsibilities for both parties.
"Marriage" that does not involve one man and one woman, no more and no less, is not marriage at all. It's something entirely different.
And Romney is saying that “the definition of marriage should be left to the people”
You are right, Romney is wrong.
Every time I see one of these threads, I keep hearkening back to the ole’ gipper:
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.“ Ronald Reagan,
And these guys wonder why conservatives aren't getting elected.
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