Posted on 02/02/2012 4:17:25 PM PST by fred4prez
"In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared," the story reads. "She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone.
"That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, ‘It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.’
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When I read that, I see Romney, you discard everyone in the primary, except Romney, and seem to indicate that you are reconciled to Romney unless something better comes along, you exclude Gingrich and Santorum in your post, and you know that no else is coming along.
Coupled with your heavy promotion of Romney, his abortion record, homosexual agenda, rationalizing everything for him, putting up a very dedicated defense for him.
It sounds to me as though you have already decided that Romney is your first choice in the primary as it is.
“I admire some of the attributes of the Mormon society, However, I don’t feel comfortable with a large international singular/self centered religious body with the influence like the Mormons being in such a powerful position.”
May I bring to your notice the Roman Catholic church, of which I am a rather insignificant member ? Its much larger and wealthier, just as centralized, and has a very long and extensive history of political involvement and controversy. Its the worlds oldest political institution in fact. In the US it has far more economic, political and ideological influence than the Mormons.
Precisely the same things were said about John F Kennedy at the time.
“If Reagan were alive and healthy today, he’d campaign for the GOP nominee, even were it Mitt.”
...EXCELLENT point, too bad the whiners here don’t get that!
I am sorry to say this, but you seem to have a problem with comprehension.
I have no preference at the moment. Thats it. I don’t want to vote for Romney. I don’t want to vote for Gingrich. By the time we get our primary I doubt Santorum will be in it. Ron Paul is unelectable and is too eccentric to run anything.
Whoever is the Republican selected I WILL vote for, as anything is better than the incumbent.
I would rather however that the nature of discourse in this forum was better calculated to advance all our aims. Ascribing positions to people and denouncing heretics are all aspects of argument in bad faith.
I was right when I said this “ Reagan was the right winger of his time, he would be much farther right now, since he would not be alone, living in a world totally run by the left.” Reagan became a formal endorser of Republican presidential candidates in 1952, he was there in 1956, and in 1960, formally changing parties in 1962.
Reagan became the greatest conservative leader, and then president, today Reagan would be much more conservative, he would be part of a giant movement with it’s own media, and with a much wider, powerful Republican party, rather than his having to operate in a totally democrat world. Reagan would have the tea party and Governor Palin, and most Governors, state houses, the Congress, and so on.
Romney is anti-conservative, voted against Reagan, campaigned as against Reagan, attacked republican senators as “Jesse Helms types”, Romney came out against Gingrich and the Contract with America.
Romney is of the left, he is anti-conservative.
I said that of Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney, you seem to not like them equally well, you seemed to put Santorum and Gingrich at 3rd, and 2nd.
I dont know if its even about conservatism, as much as it is about being in the cool kids clique.
If you say Mitt is a socialist, liberal, tyrant, fascist, commie, abortionist, pro-homo, northeastern RINO, then you will get a lot of people to come along and tell you how great and smart and true you are. Just throw the right labels at something and eliminate debate.
But if you say that in this one instance, Mitt did something good, you get called a Mitt supporter. Again, labels instead of debate.
It may not pass your smell test...but it makes no difference to the truth of the matter, I will say it again, I had never heard this story before today.
Don’t be so judgemental and quick to imply a lie when there is none. Both both me and my wife first heard this story today.
You seem to be supporting abortion/abortionists or at least are signalling that you are unwilling to fight against them. This is a position we cannot and will not support on FR. FR is pro-life. Period.
Those who try to promote the idea that Republicans should not fight against abortion are not like-minded conservatives and are not welcome on FR.
Those who signal their willingness to surrender to the GOP-e and support known abortionist/statists like Romney are not like-minded conservatives and will not be welcome on FR.
Those who support abortionist/statist/socialists like Mitt Romney are considered trolls on this pro-life, grassroots conservative site.
Take heed.
You are on probation.
The Democrats weren’t the left in the 1950’s or even the 1960’s.
The Democrats today are nothing like the Democrats of that time, certainly not in a cultural sense and for the most part not even in an economic sense either.
The usual 1950’s-1960’s Democrat would find the current types ideological obsessions bizarre.
Reagan entered politics when Democrats were running the House Un-American Activities Committee. Democrats started many of their now pet leftist institutions like the Peace Corps and Amnesty International mainly as deniable counters to Communist infiltration. John Kennedy cut taxes and raised the defense budget. The mass media environment was much more politically balanced in 1960 than in 1980.
I find your analysis ahistorical.
As for Reagan specifically, the important point concerns his character - his optimism, his pragmatism, his generous spirit. I like to think that today he would be making friends and thereby influencing people, and not pronouncing anathemas and scourging the heretics.
I wasn’t paying attention I guess. I was not for Romney then, and I am not for him now.
Today is the first time I have heard of Romney and the entire matter with this girl and her dad and his help in the matter.
That was rambling, what did you find ahistorical in my post.
By the way, why do you post so much on abortion and Romney in his defense, but refuse to answer anything about yourself and abortion and the homosexual agenda?
Also, dismissing Santorum as you do, I get the impression that Gingrich ranks below Romney to you, is that correct?
Don’t be so sure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2841299/posts
Reagan was known for pulling out of a party when the party left him.
If the Republican party goes for a socialist/aboortionist like Mitt Romney, then it has left Reagan and it will have left me.
To make myself perfectly clear:
I cannot and will not support the abortionist/statist/socialist Mitt Romney. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever!! And FR will not be used to support or promote him or his socialist healthcare plans for America!!
People who surrender to Romney and the GOP-e are not like minded conservatives and are not welcome on FR!!
As a Catholic, you know that Mormonism is a non-Christian cult.
Mormonism is an anti-Christian religion, founded on converting Christians, mostly with clandestine means, what they call milk before meat, where they convince the (often Catholic) Christian that he or she is merely moving sideways, moving into another Christian denomination.
Actually that person is moving into Bishop Romney’s, antiChristian religion, a move which will require baptism into Mormonism.
How many abortions did Reagan allow during his term?
Am I banned for that question?
Jim... I love this site you’ve built. I’ve been here for a long time. I depend on FR for most of my news. But damn... There’s been too many people... Good, fun people... That have been purged from the site. It was a lot more fun back then.
If you’re going to claim that Reagan was an abortionist just like Romney and therefore we should not object to abortion or object to Romney as the Republican nominee, then you are no better than any other filthy lying leftist and you will no longer be welcome on FR.
I agree with your adding to my remarks the Catholic Church which certainly has had more societal problems, at least present day,than the Mormon Church. My thoughts are about any religious organization that attempts to control the governmental actions/structure of our Nation.
Reagan was Governor of California, 1967–1975
California’s Therapeutic Abortion Act appears in statute books exactly as Governor Reagan signed it in 1967.
(Therapeutic abortion, a legally induced abortion for medical reasons, as when the mother’s life is threatened)
Ramius, this is not what Romney did, IE $50 abortions, no restrictions, even for woman as young as 14.
Reminds me of another lightweight - Ross Perot who “rescued some of his employees from some nutjobs in the middle east ............
He was a REAL GREAT candidate too ... /s
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