Posted on 04/08/2010 9:57:28 PM PDT by Kartographer
Mitt Romney, along with some other Republicans likely to run for president in 2012, is raising money this year for congressional candidates who want to repeal President Barack Obama's sweeping health-care law.
But as Mr. Romney tours to promote his new book, some people have been posing an uncomfortable question: If he opposes Mr. Obama's health-care policy, why did Mr. Romney shepherd a near-universal health-insurance system into law as governor of Massachusetts?
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No offense, but that's the worst political analysis ever.
Palin would have presented her position--in my mind, she could easily say something like she supported him, but didn't campaign for anyone in that race--and those who like her would see her point, and those who hate her would jump on it, and then next week they'd be bitching about some other thing.
Sticking to one's political beliefs is admirable; actively working for someone who stands for many of the things you're not makes her just another go-along to get-along insider. I can overlook that in this case, but she had an opportunity to say "We can't keep up this 'Pelosi is a nice lady' crap--all the back-slapping Washington stuff is why we're here today."
Just look at what you're doing.
This is why I am so hesitant about Palin--not so much her as her followers.
You're supporting the "Boys' Club" crap that has brought us to where we are today--but it's OKAY if PALIN does it.
Bullsh*t.
Right, Thune is popular among Democrats and Republicans in South Dakota. They’re spending their money elsewhere in competitive areas. I’m not counting Thune out, he’s said he’s not interested in the White House.
I don’t see the media leaving the story alone, I see it as becoming an all consuming tale of Sarah Palin, John McCain and the 2008 race, the Republican party, and the it would have dominated much of 2009 politics and 2010.
The half of the voting public that proudly voted for that ticket would be confused and feel betrayed and feel as though the two candidates had been hiding their true motives in the pursuit of the White House and self aggrandizement.
Sarah Palin would never have been able to simply demure from the reelection campaign of the head of her ticket, Palin dodged a bullet as someone who is good at political analysis said, Rush Limbaugh.
The general public would not be flocking to the Republican brand if they thought the party was cynical, duplicitous and in disarray and that the 2008 ticket had been a sham.
Well, like I said, it was a one time deal. If she was out there every week for him or something that might be a bit much. But a one time thing I don’t really see as a big deal.
I don’t see this as just the usual boys club. I mean, Bennett from UT is part of the club and she’s not out for him. Shelby from AL. etc... Also, McCain isn’t just another boys club member to her. For better or worse he’s the reason she’s where she is today. The reason her family and children are set up for the next few hundred years. She’s always said she’s personally fond of him, and I suspect if you spend 2 months with someone running for President and crossing the country, and especially in a race where you’re ahead and on the way to winning only to see an economic catastrophe(you had nothing to do with) come out of nowhere and condemn you to defeat, you probably become pretty close. She was in the foxhole with him so to speak.
He put her in line to be the leader of the party and the most powerful person in the world, not to mention the most powerful woman in history likely. The most famous person in the world. All that and more. Most were suggesting he pick someone else. But he showed enough faith in her.
The least she can do is so some faith in him.
I think she’s shown based on her history and other actions that she’s not really interested in protecting the boys club. I’m not too worried about her becoming part of any club.
No one in politics at this level is 100% immune to the old boy network. It’s impossible. Everyone does it, especially to those who helped them on the way up. Remember W and Santorum supporting Arlen Specter in 2004? This is nowhere near that travesty.
I think if you put her and most of the others you hear bandied about and lined them up on a scale of most likely to continue the old ways to least likely, most likely to fall in with the DC/Beltway crowd to least likely to, she’d be much farther along the least likely to side than the others.
So did Obama at this point in 2006.
Yeah, but Obama is a narcissist. Thune is not.
Romney is a snake in the grass RINO who would change EVERY position he ever took for a chance to be pres.
I want a REAL conservative, not a sometimes conservative when it suits him or her.
If the vice presidential candidate for John McCain and the the biggest GOP superstar since Reagan had not supported McCain for reelection for his Senate seat, then it would have meant the destruction of her image, and of the GOP image and it would have been the non stop political story of 2009 and 2010, the division between the ticket of the previous year would have made the Republicans appear broken and shattered and would even have led to a widespread reevaluation of the importance of a Democrat victory in 2008, because it would make the GOP ticket look like it had been a sham, it would have damaged and have prevented this incredible change in public opinion towards the entire republican brand that Palin has helped reshape during the last 17 months.
Palin would have looked cheap and shallow to the general public for turning on the man that 59,000,000 of them voted for, she would easily be painted as a radical and unstable person and a bitter, small timer to the general public. There is a lot more going on with the national image of the republican/conservative movement here than what we McCain haters see in the Arizona Senate race, the general public does not share all of our perceptions and in depth view of the race between McCain and Hayworth. They would see the Presidential and the vice Presidential candidates of the Republican party at each others throats, clearly signaling that Obama and the Democrats represented stability and calm.
Palin’s image would have never survived, and the entire national, conservative movement would be weaker in reality and in the public’s eye.
This is Liberal hogslop. Palin is supporting a Liberal RINO over a conservative. The only ones who would be concerned with Palin not supporting McCain are people who listen to the NY Times and MSNBC.
The conservative movement is weakened by re-electing another pro-illegal, pro-terrorist Liberal RINO like McCain. Your post is absolute Liberal nonsense
Willard needs to try harder because his book is not in the Top 100 Nonfiction on Amazon.com, hee hee.
Have you ever heard any politician answer a simple question with a straight forward simple Yes or No?
Reagan did quite frequently, but then he wasn’t a politician, he was a statesmen.
Governor Palin has that same quality.
I can see that politics isn’t really your strong suit, you are more of a emotional guy that likes to rant and play at being bold.
The vast voting pool of 120 million people see things differently when it comes to voting, they do not find comfort in a party that appears to be crumbling behind the scenes, people want stability and unity.
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