Mitt Romney Starts Betraying The Conservatives He Coddled During The Primaries

Businss Insider ^ | April 23, 2012 | Michael Brendan Doughterty

[lbryce]

It was inevitable. Mitt Romney is going to sell-out conservatives in his party in order to win the general. And if he wins, he'll sell them out again in order to be re-elected.*

Zeke Miller and McKay Coppins reporting for Buzzfeed have found the first issue on which Romney is trying to put some distance between himself and the conservative wing of his party.

Allahpundit, one of the most perceptive conservative bloggers, also detects the hint of conflict between the GOP candidate and the GOP Congress.

Mitt Romney told reporters today that he supports efforts to extend low interest rates for college loans — appearing to align himself with a Democrat-sponsored bill and against Congressional Republicans.

"I fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans,” Romney said at a joint news conference with Florida Senator Marco Rubio. “There was some concern that that would expire halfway through the year, and I support extending the temporary relief on interest rates for students as a result of student loans, obviously, in part because of the extraordinarily poor conditions in the job market.”

It's a small issue, but it is like the wind shifting just before the storm comes.

Romney's top advisor already described how in the general election you can just shake the "Etch-a-Sketch" and start over.

Here are some issues to watch for Romney betrayal on: spending cuts (particularly entitlement spending), his opposition to the "contraception mandate" on religious employers, his promise to de-fund Planned Parenthood, his determination to label China a currency-manipulator, his stark opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants.

There will be many others as well.

[lbryce]

No one should be surprised at Romney for the unscrupulous, duplicitous manner he's demonstrating himself to be. This is why Jim Robinson is so fervent in the vituperative vehemence has for him.

[dfwgator]

Bishop Etch-A-Sketch strikes again.

[CountryClassSF]

I'm shocked I tell you!

[sagar]

Mitt Romney never coddled conservatives. He did not outright say bad things about conservatives, but he never went too far from the moderate lines.

May be to the left-wing fringe, he was a severe conservative.

[Tzimisce]

I think I missed the conservative coddling while I was in the bathroom.....

[VictoryGal]

What a shocker. /sarc

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Student loan interest rates are bullshit. It’s a scam. They fixed them at rates 2x higher than average mortgage rates. Then, they make them the only thing not dischargeable in bankruptcy besides taxes.

There is NO competition in the student loan market. The rates are fixed, and WAY WAY above market rate.

Fixing the student loan interest rate problem is a good idea.

[Colofornian]

Headline: Mitt Romney Starts Betraying The Conservatives He Coddled During The Primaries

This headline shows this Biz Insider never knew Mitt to begin with??? Starts betraying???? (He's never stopped in order to start!!!)

[TLI]

Looks like he started believing the propaganda of his having the nomination all wrapped up.





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(CBS News) -- Mitt Romney may be the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, but it will be a while before he actually has the delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

Romney currently has 645 delegates, according to CBS News estimates. He now needs 499 more to reach 1144 - the number of delegates a candidate must have to be nominated.

Even though Romney's chief rival, Rick Santorum, has suspended his campaign, states continue to hold primaries. There are five contests on April 24th with 219 delegates at stake; but even if Romney won every single delegate that day he would be far short of 1,144. Wyoming and Missouri are holding conventions before April 24th where Romney may pick up some delegates but even winning all of them wouldn't bring him much closer to the magic number.

Looking ahead, Romney would need to win about 80 percent of the delegates available in the April and May events to possibly clinch on May 29th when Texas holds its primary with 152 delegates at stake. If Romney won 90 percent of the delegates in April and through May 22nd he may still come up short of the 1,144 and need delegates from Texas' primary on May 29th.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57413068-503544/romney-still-needs-almost-500-delegates-to-clinch-gop-nomination/ .

[factoryrat]

Romney is not a Conservative! Vote for him at your own peril!.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Romney avoids going on conservative talk radio and the hosts here in Florida said he would not make time for them.

[tennmountainman]

Romney did not even attempt to “coddle” conservatives.
He has run a RINO from the very start.

[Carry_Okie]

"I fully support the effort to extend the low interest rate on student loans,”

I fully support killing the Marxist stranglehold on credentialing, which would force tuition and fees to drop like a stone.

[AnTiw1]

But...but...but he’s WHITE! And he has the great letter “R” amulet that averts all evil! He would never lie to us...he’s a Christian!! /s

[factoryrat]

That is because romney is not a conservative, he is a used car salesman who will tell you whatever you want to hear to close the sale, and screw you in the process.

[Born to Conserve]

Anyone know where to find which delegates to vote for for Gingrich in Pa. 13th CD tomorrow? I’ve looked on the web, and it is not obvious.

[jospehm20]

Are Mormons Christian?

[Still Thinking]

Romney's top advisor already described how in the general election you can just shake the "Etch-a-Sketch" and start over.

So does that mean that if he gets elected and starts acting like a commie ass ("if"?), all we have to do is pick him up and shake him and see if he reboots as a conservative, and if not, repeat till he does?

[Gator113]

We told you so......