Posted on 02/21/2010 9:47:27 PM PST by pissant
USA Today - headline and link only
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-21-romney_N.htm
He won’t get mine. I do not trust him. Not one bit. He might as well be a “progressive” as far as I am concerned. And I am not sure he isn’t.
Me too.
No More RINO’s!!!!!!!!
If it happens, I guess I stay home.
If I vote for the rat I lose, if I vote for the RINO I lose,
and if I vote third party, I lose.
So, what’d be the point in expending the time?
But I voted Palin last time ‘round, and expect to do so again, so I’ve at least a small bit of hope.
Nice manipulative language being used there. I see it used a lot, and ONLY by Republicans who are defending big government Republicans. I never see Palin, or DeMint, or Hunter, or Thompson, or Rubio, or Bachman supporters use the term for those who don't like those candidates. Nope, it's only ever used by folks who are pushing a big-government liberal Democrat-lite Republicans.
They use that language specifically to emotionally manipulate opponents to the defensive. They use that language because it paints them as well-meaning victims who have as much a place "in the circle" as anyone else. The truth, dixjea, is that liberal, big-government Democrat Lite Republicans are the only ones inviting any shooting. You don't belong in the circle and you never have; you're invaders, you're Trojan Horsemen, and you've never done a thing for the Republican party except to drive it to the left.
The only "circular firing squad" is in your self-serving illusions. You're on the left side of the room and those of us on the right are telling you to GET OUT.
You don't know the man at all.
I don’t buy that the biggest issue with Obama is incompetence or lack of experience. The biggest issue with Obama is ideology. The electorate IMO will want to counter that with someone who genuinely believes and articulates the importance of small, limited government.
Romney is pure technocrat, always thinking he’s smart enough to craft a government solution that’s better than what people can figure and carry out for themselves.
By 2012 Obama will have spent at an executive government level Romney’s no experience with anyway.
“Both people in the line are probably disappointed that he couldn’t even win his own straw poll.”
even in gay friendly CPAC
RomneyCare. Next!
Everyone is sick and tired of Obamacare and we’re going to throw away that issue?
He’s a keynesian who likes tax cuts.
I know there are a lot of good conservative Mormons in the country and on FR. But where Romney is concerned, you/they appear as blinded as black voters, on average, are with Obama. I think you would see through another grasping, flip-flop-flip-flopping, big government technocrat much more readily.
I have said it before and I will say it again: Ronald Reagan himself wouldn’t be able to win most of you over as a true conservative in today’s environment. Remember, Reagan was a Democrat before he was a Republican; he was president of the Screen Actor’s Guild (a union); and, as governor, he signed into law the first liberalization of abortion policy in California. Although, not technically pro-choice, the law did set the stage for the fully permissive abortion law we have today. With this background, I suspect many of you would accuse the Gipper of being a RINO. Reagan was the least progressive president since Calvin Coolidge, but many here wouldn’t have looked past his past in today’s ultra-sensitive, conservative-litmus-test environment. Get a grip. It is precisely this nit-picking by nit-wits that split the conservative vote 5 ways during the last primary season and gave us John McCain.
Look at Romney’s real record.... Slashed spending, no tax increases, balanced budgets and a revived Massachusetts. Many cite his support and work on Massachusetts’s health reform legislation as the chief cause for concern, but do you actually understand the bill as it was originally passed? The law today is not how it was originally conceived. The liberals in Massachusetts bastardized it once Romney left office. And, let’s not forget how Romney single-handedly staved off a constitutional crisis as he applied a 1917 law to prevent gays from outside of the commonwealth from marrying in the commonwealth after the court decided to grant gays the right to marry.
We need to stop being so ultra-sensitive. No candidate is going to meet everyone’s idea of the perfect conservative and we need to stop the nit-picking or we will wind up with a TRUE RINO like McCain in the next election.
I’d refer you to my post above. Somehow Mormons across America seem to have an understanding of Romney’s term in MA that just wasn’t so.
Romney jacked up fees and taxes that weren’t called taxes like crazy in MA, and the health care bill that he conceived and passed with the Dems was an unsustainable budget-buster as passed, which is why the MA legislature has tinkered with it.
More and more people moved out of MA while he was a governor because they simply couldn’t afford to stay there.
You can't compare Reagan being a democrat in the 1940s and endorsing republicans in the 1950s and finally switching his registration in 1962 as a nationally known conservative to a guy that was a liberal after those days. You even bring up the 1960s, pre Roe v Wade days.
Mitt Romney is not that guy. Mitt Romney was liberal and pro abortion after that, and after Roe v Wade, and after the 1970s Jimmy Carter and during the Reagan Revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Gingrich Revolution, and the Clinton years and the Bush years, until it was time in 2006 to 2007 to switch completely for the 2008 election.
The times changeand it matters which times that you live in, Romney did not live politically in the grey era of the 1940s and fifties, Romney lived in the post Reagan world of black and white, and Romney signed up for the darkness.
“But Romney is a proven organizational and financial manager and that is just what our country needs.”
Yep, that romneycare is working out just fine. Maybe he and obama can get together to REALLY bankrupt this country.
Another damned RINO will be the ticket for 2012....just what we "need" as Conservatives, right?
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