Posted on 01/30/2012 11:35:23 AM PST by NKP_Vet
"As the Florida primary looms closer, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has more and more strongly identified himself as a consistent conservative and Republican voter, and in Thursday’s GOP debate he implied he always has been.
But a review of the facts paints a different picture and counters Romney’s assertions. In the past, Romney has often gone to considerable lengths to distance himself from Republicans and conservatives.
• Romney had been a lifelong independent before he decided to run for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts in 1994, the Boston Globe reported at the time.
When Romney debated Kennedy, Kennedy accused his opponent of trying to return the country to the policies of Reagan-Bush. Romney retorted: “I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.”
• The Los Angeles Times reported that after Romney entered the '94 Senate race, his wife Ann said: “We didn’t know a single Republican when we jumped in.”
The Times also disclosed that Romney even considered running as an independent “before rejecting the idea as impractical.”
• When House Speaker Newt Gingrich was promoting his “Contract with America” in 1994, Romney’s aides said he “had not read the document and had no plans to support it,” the Globe reported.
• Brent Bozell’s Conservative Victory Committee attacked Romney in 1994 for “running away from conservative Republican themes” and espousing a “left-wing agenda.”
• Washington Post columnist David Broder observed during the 1994 Senate campaign: “Eager to show that he is a moderate independent and no ideologue, Romney stressed his support for universal health insurance and abortion rights, criticized the Republican ‘Contract with America,’ and was more outspoken than Kennedy in arguing that the Boy Scouts should not exclude homosexual youths.”
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It's too depressing to even think about.
Just like Mayor Bloomberg....he looked for where the opportunity would be, and decided to become a Republican.
To think that Romney has the gall to attack Newt’s Reagan connection...
I wish the damage would be that limited, but I suspect it will be worse. If Romney is the nominee, I'm retiring, going completely Galt, prepping for more than the one year of chaos and shortage that I've been assuming as a worst case, and getting completely ready for the really ugly contingencies. There isn't enough difference between Obama and Romney for me to care which one wins. Obama hates my country, and Romney wants to change it so it's no longer recognizable. In a Romney/Obama election, I'll work for a conservative Congress until election day, but then I'm preparing for the worst, because that's what such an election choice guarantees.
This guy Romney is a total Mystery to me. What has he ever done other than make $$$ and father children. Over the past few months, I’ve come to think of him as “Mr. Slick” because I don’t know anything about him that makes him worthy of becoming our President. We’ve already got one like that in the W.H. and we sure as heck don’t need another one!
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