Another Billboard Mystery: Remember Reagan?

AOL News ^ | March 16, 2010 | staff

[Baladas]

Mara Gay Contributor

AOL News (March 16) -- This time, it's partisan. About a month after a billboard of former President George W. Bush with the question "Miss Me Yet?" was spotted beside a Minnesota highway, a similarly mysterious billboard has appeared in the state.

This one features Ronald Reagan, and, unlike the original billboard, the message is unmistakably conservative: "Remember Real Hope and Change?" the sign asks, openly mocking President Barack Obama's campaign slogan.

[999replies]

Your obsession knows no bounds.

[Grunthor]

It might be somewhat comical but I was actually quite saddened when I saw that pic and that was my first thought.

I plan to fight like crazy to make sure this man does NOT get the nomination. If the next GOP POTUS wants to put him in charge of something to do with finance, that’s one thing, but I really do NOT want to have a “choice” in 2012 of Romney or Obama.

[GOP_Lady]

Go get your jollies somewhere else, dude.

[ejonesie22]

So you have an issue with Conservatism too?

WOW...

Why are you here?

[ejonesie22]

no.

[Lady Heron]

Just brilliant after post 4.

I will sit any election with Romney as the candidate out.

No More Rinos!

[Diogenesis]

Stop attacking FReepers.

Your bad behavior reminds one of Peter Horry.

[ejonesie22]

You make a good point. It is sad in many ways that the GOP goes from Ronald Reagan to “Mitt” in 20+ years...

I hope to prevent that of course.

[ejonesie22]

I remember that name...

Did they USED to post here...

[GOP_Lady]

Coming from you, who attacks fellow Freepers non-stop?

Unlike you, I don’t do that.

[GOP_Lady]

And I don’t PING everyone either.

RUDE!

[ansel12]

You are even trying to hijack Reagan threads for no reason.

You seem to be in the final throes of a troll molting, where you finally can no longer control your worst impulses, and the reptilian ugliness totally replaces the previous skin.

[Diogenesis]

GOP_Lady (RomneyBOT, thread stealer):
"Coming from you, who attacks fellow Freepers non-stop?
Unlike you, I don’t do that."

Yes, you do. Case in point is this thread.
Have a good day.

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

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“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

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"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

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"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

[MontanaBeth]

You seem to be in the final throes of a troll molting, where you finally can no longer control your worst impulses, and the reptilian ugliness totally replaces the previous skin.

LOL!!

[mnehring]

LOL, thanks for the laugh. The only thing those two have in common is Brylcreem.

[Fishtalk]

;)

[Leisler]

What do you think is the reason that Mitt, of Stanford, BYU( eh), Harvard Law and MBA, then investment is so ...so limp? How did almost everyone not left of Castro go for Reagan, and Mitt didn’t?

Was he stupid? No.
Not well educated? No.

Then what?

Life long, family liberals? Much evidence exists.
Soulless political opportunist? Evidence of that.

Have you ever read of Mitt’s Road to Damascus event? I haven’t.

American is chock full of reasonably good businessmen. Mitt’s nothing special.

Mitt is a fatally flawed, elderly, mediocre hack. His desperation is, sadly, pathetic.

He’s really become a Republican buzzkill, money and attention hog.

We need younger, more politically aggressive, in your face Republicans.

[mnehring]

Right era, wrong comparison.

[ejonesie22]

Mitt in 10 more years...