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To: 9YearLurker
Alan King, in his stand up act, used to do a funny routine in which he talked about how women had it better than men and even outlived them. "I can see that some of you men are doubting me," he would say, "So I'll prove it to you."

King would then ask if anyone in the audience had that day's newspaper, or any newspaper. On being given a paper, King would turn to the obituaries and start reading them out. The punch line would be that again and again, when a man died old, the obituary described that he was "survived by his widow."

To some degree at least, might Romney have been liberal because that was the price of being governor of Massachusetts? Careerist business types are often like that, putting on their politics like calibrating the right suit for a business occasion. If so, as to Romney, that means getting him pinned down to a conservative reformist platform that he commits to and campaigns on.

43 posted on 02/17/2014 1:08:55 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

No, he was a supporter of liberal Democrats before he ran for office and had to paddle vigorously to the right just to run as a GOP candidate in MA. Then, of course, as soon as he was in office he not only did absolutely nothing to support GOP candidates down-ticket from him—he governed as a liberal Democrat while in office.

He tried to enact a couple of rightish-leaning acts that never were even actually implemented before he stepped down in order to help him run as something of a Republican for president.

He was plotting to run for president back from when he first ran for office. He first ran against Teddy Kennedy in a race for which it wasn’t expected he’d win, only that he’d establish name recognition. But MA had a string of three Republicans governors before him, and not only did running against Kennedy give him a chance to have the support of his party, it enabled him to supposedly posture as a more credible eventual national candidate from MA. Then, he was able to run outwardly as a continuation of the string of GOP governors that went back to William Weld.

The dude was a liberal, soulless corpus of ambition through every step of his political (and business) career.

On the other side, he obviously has been a good and dedicated provider to his family and a model citizen within his Mormon community, within which he has done a number of good acts.


49 posted on 02/17/2014 4:25:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Rockingham

To some degree at least, might Romney have been liberal because that was the price of being governor of Massachusetts?
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No he ran for gov of MASS as a liberal...

He ran 10 years earlier in 1994 as a liberal against Teddy Kennedy for US Senate..

He was more liberal than Teddy in a debate so much so that Teddy was able to point that out and Willard could not deny it..

The moderator asked Willard about his pro-abortion stance and Willard agreed he was for Roe V Wade staying “the law of the land” He said “I sustain a woman’s right to have an abortion...I will never try to overturn Roe V Wade..”

He was asked about gays in the boy scouts...he agreed they ought to be..

Willard got very belligerent and was ugly about President Ronald Reagan...”I was an Independent during the time of Reagan..”

Willard also said he was proud of his mother Lenore for running for US Senate on an abortion platform in 1970..

This happened in 1994..

Then in 2002 during a debate for gov of MASS he declared that if the parents of an underage girl refused permission for her to get an abortion, then he, Willard, as gov, would order the judges to override their parental authority..

being gov of MASS didn’t make Willard into a liberal ...he was a liberal years before he came into office..

he was a good fit for liberal MASS...

meanwhile he knows pretending to “being Conservative” is “the price” of being elected to the office of the president..


55 posted on 02/17/2014 9:33:24 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Rockingham
To some degree at least, might Romney have been liberal because that was the price of being governor of Massachusetts?

Didn't you see post 36?

Mitt Romney was born liberal, into a liberal family, and is still liberal, weren't you just a little surprised when after he won the primary, he came out against the GOP's pro-life platform and ran pro-choice ads in Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin?

66 posted on 02/17/2014 9:50:30 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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