Posted on 11/08/2012 4:53:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Because as decent as Romney may be, everything about his career smells "finance guy....Wall Street deal broker".
Take a Mitt Romney and subtract the personal integrity, and you've got the exact type that brought us all the bubbles, Too Big To Fail and the bailouts.
You can be rich and still win Main Street's approval if you are a hands on businessman who delivers products and services. Not a contract wrangler who makes his millions by transaction fees on paper moving around.
And yes, it was Newt who first attacked Romney on the Bain issue, and I'll always think the less of him for that. It was way, way beneath him.
Isn't that the truth? I saw her on TV recently, and my first thought was, "I thought Tammy Wynette was dead."
Gee, I guess somebody’s ears are burnin..... :-)
My mther bore me and raised me despite the reality that she was raped making her pregnant with me. Her virtue is a huge contrast to your progressivist rhetoric. You are exposing yourself as ‘the enemy’, so keep posting your alinskyesque crap, n00b. And wehat’s that TBL screen name?
My mther bore me and raised me despite the reality that she was raped making her pregnant with me. Her virtue is a huge contrast to your progressivist rhetoric. You are exposing yourself as ‘the enemy’, so keep posting your alinskyesque crap, n00b. And what’s that TBL screen name? ... I’ll look you up next time I’m over there.
My mother bore me and raised me despite the reality that she was raped making her pregnant with me. Her virtue is a huge contrast to your progressivist rhetoric. You are exposing yourself as ‘the enemy’, so keep posting your alinskyesque crap, n00b. And what’s that TBL screen name? ... I’ll look you up next time I’m over there.
Actually, I’m a lot more comfy at FR now than I was back in May and June. Thanks for asking.
Actually, I’m a lot more comfy at FR now than I was back in May and June. Thanks for asking.
But it's sheer fantasy to think that a candidate who runs on a platform of "no abortion even for rape or incest" will ever win a national or statewide race in this country.
Not without 20-30 years of retail level hearts-and-minds changing by the pro-life movement to set the stage.
Are you doing that, are you working every day to make the pro-life case with those who disagree, and are you OK with waiting that long??
That’s a little better. You really didn’t need to insult freepers, but you just couldn’t resist. Try reading my profile page next time.
But if someone takes that belief and says "If you, Eric, don't make that belief 100% non-negotiable for yourself as well, you are not a conservative, you're not my ally, and please close the door on your way out" - yeah, I have a pretty hard time staying chill with that.
As a writer, I follow the technological advancements in the field of prenatal advancements. [I wrote a little book on stem cells, cloning, and abortion more than ten years ago, which was a layman's guide to the issues, without a morl declaration, merely a warning to my fellow human beings. That little book has been downloaded tens of thousands of times for free. Hopefully, as many people have come to realize the truth about the alive unborn. I invite you to download it too, and read it. It's free and will always be free, for reasons which I cite at the blogpage site.]
I am absolutely certain that within less than ten years complete artificial gestation can be achieved. Twelve years ago Japanese researchers were already keeping goat fetuses alive n artificial amniotic sacs for fourteen weeks, to birth age.
When that complete artificial gestation support arrives, what will be the excuse to slaughter the alive little ones who could be transferred to life support outside of the female body? ... And of course you realize there is now no mandate to identify the little ones as human Americans so the question is already moot! Evil has taken over the entire field of questions. If Molech were real he would be so proud of our abortion supporters in America. One of them was just re-appointed to captain this america-titanic. How telling of our internal rot!
Sitting in an echo chamber bemoaning the status quo to fellow pro-lifers accomplishes nothing. Nothing!
Any my anger at some Freepers posted up-thread comes directly from my reading of their posts. It is inconceivable to me that many of them could ever discuss the issue with the opposition in a calm and convincing way, and to me that makes them nothing but roadblocks.
After those millions of conversations have taken place, it will be possible to end all legal abortions. Not before. And in the meantime, if I can work for an electable candidate who will reduce the abortion rate by 90 percent, I will do so happily, and sleep soundly after having done so.
On one side will be the tea-party...on the other will be the GOP-E...and in the middle will be all of those who believe in tea-party values but want to win at any cost and will support the GOP-E.
She supported Christie...then Romney. said he was the only one who could win. I beg to differ.
Until the GOP takes off the gloves and fights lies with outspoken truth...and treats the voting public like the idiots they are...who need a shepherd and a guide...instead of thinking they ae smart enough to get it...WE are done.
Sorry Anne candidates have one job and one job only: lure voters. If a candidate can’t out perform somebody as bad as McCain that candidate failed and deserves ALL the blame. Obie lost over 10% of his votes, he was beatable, just not by a Massachusetts liberal with an R after his name. Had he given conservatives an actual choice, instead of being another socialist dink in the wrong party, he’d have won. He didn’t, conservative opted out, he lost. Yup, I blame him for being a candidate that didn’t deserve my, and apparently millions of others’, vote.
I’d like the tea party, (to the extent that it even thinks as a group) to start understanding why conservatives like Rand Paul and Ron Johnson win, while conservatives like Akin and O’Donnell get slaughtered. There is a real difference in personality and presentation to be taken into account.
Perhaps you have better stated it than I do, but political leaders in Utah relaxed liquor laws for the Olympics, were willing to settle for civil unions as a compromise on gay marriage, wanted more exceptions than rape and incest in proposed abortion laws.
I don’t think Romney as a “leader” wanted to leave his faith with a bad reputation after this election, among other things.
As for what the average Joe “in the pew” thinks, you probably got it right.
Thanks for setting me straight.
I don’t blame Romney, but it’s hard to say that he was “perfect” or “one of the best candidates the Republicans have ever fielded.” He was definitely a flawed candidate. But nobody else proved to be better. Maybe some ideal supercandidate could have defeated Obama, but there wasn’t such a person in the race, so Romney did what he could with what he had.
I think Romney campaigned according to his faith and values.
Mormons are conciliatory and compromising, respecting of others.
I don’t hate them for that. They are decent people who don’t want to start fights with other people since their forefathers were attacked violently in the Midwest back in the 1830s and 40’s.
But the campaign should have involved stronger attacks.
The kind of attacks that would have driven Obama’s support down like all negative attacks do when they are properly executed in a political campaign.
I do have a slight disagreement in that there were a lot of purist conservatives and evangelicals that would have met the McCain standard of votes (thereby winning), but stayed home. I was pleased when JR and most of FR changed and became ABO voters. There was a purist faction that stayed the anti-Romney course, sizeable, who sat out, voted third party, or deliberately didn't vote because Romney was a Mormon. I gather from the numbers there were enough of them to throw Bambi out.
I blame them as much as some of the mistakes Romney made. I still don't believe anyone else who ran (or Palin who did not run)could have done better or come closer to winning. They all were as deeply flawed as Romney in different ways, without some of his strengths.
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