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The 1994 Campaign: Massachusetts (Romney against reducing capital gains tax; evasive on handgun ban
The New York Times ^ | 10/28/1994 | Adam Clymer

Posted on 10/12/2011 6:55:38 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, met in debate tonight and staged a generally pallid battle pf policy details... The only heated confrontation was over crime, after Mr. Romney said Mr. Kennedy was too soft... Mr. Kennedy then demanded to know where Mr. Romney stood on banning cheap handguns...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: banglist; congress; crapsandwich; elections; mandatemitt; mccainwannabe; mcmitt; mittens; mittromney; moredullthanbobdole; rinofreeamerica; rinoromney; romney; romneytruthfile; taxes
Further on down the article, the following can be found: "In a demonstration of that independence, Mr. Romney shifted on one issue tonight, saying he now opposed longstanding Republican proposals to reduce the Federal tax on capital gains."
1 posted on 10/12/2011 6:55:42 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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I don’t think that Edward M. Kennedy (Ted) was ever successful in fully pinning Romney down on if he supported banning cheap handguns. Romney was too evasive, too slick, too squirmy.


2 posted on 10/12/2011 6:59:33 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I will not under any circumstances vote for this worm who will say or promise anything to get elected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU

Watch it all the way.


3 posted on 10/12/2011 7:01:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

bttt


4 posted on 10/12/2011 7:03:17 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Romney is simply an unprincipled liar. FUMR!!


5 posted on 10/12/2011 7:03:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

If Romney becomes the Republican candidate in 2012, it will be just another McCain moment.


6 posted on 10/12/2011 7:05:24 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is Satan's handiwork.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Not that I support Romney , but say isn’t Adam Clymer, the guy GWB said was a “major league ******* from the New York Times.”


7 posted on 10/12/2011 7:26:21 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Adam Clymer is a major league clymer.


8 posted on 10/12/2011 7:34:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: SMGFan

Has a southern orifice named after him to prove it.


9 posted on 10/12/2011 7:36:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: SMGFan

I dunno.

Regardless, both sides have journalists, columnists, etc, that keep track of things that some politicians would rather that they didn’t.

This may be a man from the left that was a thorn in Bush’s side, just as Rush, Hannity, Malkin and so on are thorns in the sides of lefties in their own right.

Good may come out of this, though. Imagine, a man who may have been a thorn to Bush recording info then, now detrimental and politically damaging to Romney.


10 posted on 10/12/2011 7:40:36 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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But just imagine, that major leaguer having recorded info then that works to the benefit of conservatives opposed to Romney getting the nomination.

How rich.


11 posted on 10/12/2011 7:43:12 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Flip, meet Flop.


12 posted on 10/12/2011 8:16:07 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
ROMNEY GW
13 posted on 10/12/2011 8:20:05 PM PDT by FrankR (What you resist...PERSISTS!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

He also attacked Forbes for the flat tax.


14 posted on 10/12/2011 9:11:15 PM PDT by WOSG (“Legion of Acceptibility”)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; Dengar01; BillyBoy

Other Myth highlights from that campaign:

“I was an independent during Reagan-Bush I don’t want to go back to Reagan-Bush.”

“I love fags, I’ll be much better for gay rights than Ted Kennedy” (okay this one is a paraphrase ;) )


15 posted on 10/13/2011 6:25:12 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Anyone contemplating Romney as his candidate needs to Google “Kennedy Romney Debate 1994”. Watch the various videos turned up. Therein you will see the true Romney. You will see that whenever he’s pressured his natural instinct is to move sharply left. His guiding philosophy is of elitist, feudal control over the masses. He imagines himself a conservative but his fundamental impulse is always to take the course of less liberty, more control. Like all the self-appointed elite, he thinks it his role to play a giant SIMs game with us as pawns.


16 posted on 10/13/2011 6:34:06 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Where's he getting these ideas? He's not smart enough to be that stupid all by himself.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Etch a Sketch.


17 posted on 04/10/2012 6:01:36 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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