Posted on 10/24/2011 2:35:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney is always quick to lambast other Republicans for being career politicians, as if this is his first rodeo and he is a political newcomer. However, the truth is he’s been in politics for over seventeen years, many of which have been spent appealing to liberals and moderates and fighting to keep from being identified with Ronald Reagan.
Yet the more one goes back and listens to the things Romney’s been saying during his nearly two decades of public service, the more one has to wonder why he thought someone would link him to Reagan in the first place.
....trying to unseat Senator Ted Kennedy in 1994, Romney said:
“I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S.Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. And I sustain and support that law.”
.......And on guns, Romney would be a disaster. For example, while trying to the secure the Republican nomination that eventually went to John McCain, Romney appeared on ‘Meet the Press’ with Tim Russert and said:
“I don’t line up 100% with the NRA. I supported the assault weapon ban [as governor].”
And he went on to explain that he supported the BradyLaw in its original form.
What I’ve learned by listening to Romney is that you have to be aware of the fact that he thinks well enough on his feet to slip past troublesome topics and seize on others more favorable to his ambitions. This lets him get away with telling a few half-truths (or half-lies, depending on how you like to frame it).
For instance, when....
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
There ya go again. Guilty conscience? My comment was driven by the plural sense as depicted by the “by’s” and any regular poster here knows that.
Have a wonderful Monday.
It seems like they are. He’s running behind Newt “Baggage” Gingrich and Wrong Paul in some polls. Yikes!
Didn’t Jim DeMint endorse Milt?
His counter proposal to in-state tuition was a total tuition waver for students who were the top 25% of MA grads. The legislature rejected that because it believed wealthier family's kids would benefit.
Had it passed, illegal aliens in that 25% could've had free ride at MA state colleges.
Romney didn't have any moral indignation about tuition breaks for illegal immigrant students, he just didn't want a specific benefit for them to be part of his record when he ran for POTUS.
That sounds exactly like the thinking of the guy who slipped up now and revealed his thinking with, “I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals," doesn't it?
No one should be fooled by Romney. He'll say anything.
Romney also was proud of the fact that he gave free health care to illegals with his Romneycare, and he thanked Obama for putting the same thing in Obamacare.
That is the fact and it is on tape for all to see.
Perry can’t even make it through a debate without a nap. He’s in no shape for the white house.
Well, at least Mitt was a Republican. . . . . . .
Romney is so bad he could make President "govern-by-polls" Clinton look like he had core values!
Sorry sweetie, you can’t re-write history.
Boy, oh boy. What a great endorsement at the time of the primary voting.
“Great leaders are born and good leaders keep working on it. We are not favored with an obvious great leader in the 2008 presidential race, as is apparent from the primary process and the results thus far.
But Mitt Romney’s leadership credentials offer the best hope of a leader with substance, and the best hope for a good president who could turn out to be great.”
I see that as a vote for the best of the none of the above. Here is the link that contains the whole text of his comments. http://www.verumserum.com/?p=30490
The cat fight between Ysnkee Governor Good Hair and Southern Governor Good Hair is embarassing. They are like twin used car salesmen separated at birth.
Actually, this link is of the entire endorsement and his “pinch his nose”moment in doing so.
http://www.gaformitt.com/2008/02/herman-cain-endorses-gov-romney.html
“Great leaders are born and good leaders keep working on it. We are not favored with an obvious great leader in the 2008 presidential race, as is apparent from the primary process and the results thus far.
But Mitt Romney’s leadership credentials offer the best hope of a leader with substance, and the best hope for a good president who could turn out to be great.”
“slip past troublesome topics”
“I don’t line up 100% with the NRA. I supported the assault weapon ban [as governor].” What Mitt did when he signed the AB was to claim if he vetoed it, his veto would be overridden.
Another one is when he has stated in the debates, he signed a bill for local LE’s to enforce immigration laws. Fact is he signed this EO two days before “Coupe” Deval took office. Mitt knew Deval would rescind this EO
Care to elaborate?
Not sure about MA tuition, but he did give them free medical care in Romneycare.
Do you have ANY thing to add to this thread about Romney?
Or are you strictly anti-Perry?
Obama likes Mitt's advisers too:
Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama) …………….“"EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken most of the fire from Republicans as her agency rolls out a slew of controversial new climate and clean air rules. But McCarthy, the EPA assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation, has taken on much of the heavy lifting of writing, structuring, and implementing the rules.
“Lisa’s the coach and Gina’s the quarterback” in the work of rolling out new clean air regulations, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate policy expert at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration. “She’s running the plays, improvising on the line.”
Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has some exotic views: …………..
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