Posted on 05/24/2007 7:29:52 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Mitt Romney Was A Conservative Republican Governor In The Bluest Of The Blue States:
The Economist, On Governor Romney: "Being The Republican Governor Of Such A Liberal State As Massachusetts Must Be Like Swimming Through Sugary Sludge." "Being the Republican governor of such a liberal state as Massachusetts must be like swimming through sugary sludge. Everywhere he looks, he is surrounded by sweet-talking liberal legislators, judges and citizens." (Editorial, "Mitt Romney And Gay Marriage," The Economist, 6/30/05)
There Are Almost 3 Times As Many Registered Democrats As Republicans In Massachusetts:
- Registered Democrats: 1,526,711
- Registered Republicans: 532,319 (Massachusetts Secretary Of State Website, www.sec.state.ma.us, Accessed 5/21/07)
The Massachusetts Legislature Is Comprised Of Over 85% Democrats. (Maria Cramer and John C. Drake, "Republican Lawmakers Hit Historic Low Mark," The Boston Globe, 11/8/06)
Against Those Odds, Governor Romney Enacted A Conservative Agenda:
Gov. Romney Turned The Legislature's $250 Million Retroactive Capital Gains Tax Increase Into A $250 Million Tax Refund. ("Romney Signs Bill Abolishing Retroactive Tax," Boston Business Journal, 12/8/05)
Gov. Romney Closed An Inherited $3 Billion Shortfall Without Tax Increases. (Pam Belluck, "Romney Candidacy Puts Massachusetts Economy In Spotlight," The New York Times, 3/16/07)
Gov. Romney Has Championed Traditional Marriage, And Fought Efforts To Redefine The Institution. (John DiStaso, "Romney: 1 Man 1 Woman," The [Manchester NH] Union Leader, 4/4/07)
Gov. Romney Enforced A 1913 Law Preventing Out-Of-State Same-Sex Couples From Marrying In Massachusetts. (Pam Belluck, "Romney Won't Let Gay Outsiders Wed In Massachusetts," The New York Times, 4/25/04)
Gov. Romney Funded Abstinence Education For The First Time In Massachusetts' Classrooms. (Andrea Estes And Tracy Jan, "State Widens Teaching Of Abstinence," The Boston Globe, 4/21/06)
Gov. Romney Vetoed A Bill To Expand Stem Cell Research That Included Embryo-Destructive Methods. ("Massachusetts' Gov. Romney Delivers On Promise To Veto Stem Cell Bill," The Associated Press, 5/27/05)
Gov. Romney Vetoed Legislation That Would Have Provided For The "Morning After Pill" Without A Prescription. (Governor Mitt Romney, Op-Ed, "Why I Vetoed The Contraception Bill," The Boston Globe, 7/26/05)
Gov. Romney Filed And Promoted A Bill Protecting Religious Liberties. (Brooke Donald, "Romney Files 'Religious Freedom' Bill On Church And Gay Adoption," The Associated Press, 3/15/06)
Gov. Romney Took Action To Enforce Immigration Laws. (Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman, "Troopers Can Arrest Illegal Immigrants In Romney Deal," The Boston Globe, 12/3/06)
Massachusetts Liberals Are Trying To Roll Back Gov. Romney's Conservative Record:
Among The Romney Accomplishments Now Under Attack By Democrats In 2007:
- Gov. Romney's Fiscally-Responsible Budget Cuts Amounting To $383 Million Were Restored. (Casey Ross, "Deval Flips Mitt's Cuts," The Boston Herald, 1/6/07)
- Gov. Romney's Blocking Of Out-Of-State Gay Marriages Was Reversed. (Andrea Estes and Lisa Wangsness, "26 Gay Marriages Set To Be Recorded," The Boston Globe, 4/2/07)
- Gov. Romney-Supported Ballot Measure Banning Same-Sex Marriage Is Being Targeted For Defeat. (Frank Phillips and Lisa Wangsness, "Same-Sex Marriage Ban Advances," The Boston Globe, 1/3/07)
- Gov. Romney's Abstinence Education Funding For Schools Was Targeted For Elimination. (Lisa Wangsness, "Patrick Seeks To Forgo Grant," The Boston Globe, 4/24/07)
- Gov. Romney's Restrictions On Stem Cell Research Were Reversed. (Stephen Smith, "Governor Wants End To Curb On Stem Cells," The Boston Globe, 3/30/07)
- Gov. Romney's Plan To Have State Police Arrest Illegal Immigrants Was Reversed. (Casey Ross, "Gov: States Won't Nab Illegal Aliens," The Boston Herald, 1/12/07)
- Gov. Romney's Initiative To Reform The State's Auto Insurance Industry Was Halted. (Bruce Mohl, "Patrick Halts Romney's Auto Insurance Revamp," The Boston Globe, 1/20/07)
- Gov. Romney's Plan To Rescind Turnpike Tolls Was Stopped. (Frank Philips, "Romney Pick Resigns From Pike Board," The Boston Globe, 2/14/07)
Kind of makes one wonder what kind of guy a bunch of liberals would vote for. Seems he either fooled all of thme or is trying to fool a bunch of us...
MA is weird in that the registered Democrats aren’t all liberals....lotta conservative Catholic Democrats.....and there’s a large chunk of “unenrolled” voters like myself.
...even 37% of MA voted for Bush the 2nd time around.
Shannon O’Brien was the Dennis Kucinich of 2002. :-)
Ronald Reagan took Massachusetts twice. Plus the fact that MA had had a Republican Governor for many, many years prior to Deval Patrick. It is a weird place, my home state.
MA voters have been hedging their bets since Volpe.
Nothing but a laundry list of talking points [spin] for the liberal former Governor of Massachusetts, falsely presented as somehow being news. Tacky.
It’s from a press release. Hence, it was intended for the news.
Deceptive liberal spin.
If this is spin, what do we call the bilge you spam posts with?
Massachusetts voters in 2002 were looking for a brilliant financial manager and fiscal conservative to clean up the huge budget deficit mess and improve the faltering economy in the state. They weren't counting on the social conservative ideology that Romney holds as his core values. Ann Coulter said, "And you have to say about Romney, he tricked liberals into voting for him. I like a guy -- I like a guy who hoodwinks liberals so easily."
All the conservative policies and actions from Gov. Romney now under attack or reversed in Massachusetts show what a force he was in that state to hold back the tide of liberalism. The incoming Democrat Gov. Deval Patrick has opened the flood gates.
A “bunch of liberals” voted for Reagan too.
I believe that’s because when a conservative who can articulate very well his positions, such as Reagan did and Romney does, many registered Democrats find they’re not so liberal after all.
Romney is clearly the most conservative of the media’s chosen three “front-runners”, which to quote another solid conservative is sort of like being the “tallest midget in the room”.
Give me a break EV. You post that “Mitt Romney Deception” set of anti-Romney talking points on every single Romney thread and then you call posting one set of pro-Romney talking points “tacky”?
It takes a lot of chutzpah, I'll admit, for Mitt Romney, the guy who used his executive power to implement gay marriage, [threatening the justices of the peace with firing if they wouldn't perform them,] to brag about his "accomplishments" in this area.
Hillary, right, and Julie Goodridge, left, lead plaintiffs in the Massachusetts gay marriage lawsuit, while at Boston City Hall in Boston in this Monday May 17, 2004 file photo. (AP)
Sure. You bet. That's why the Romney administration declared two homosexual men to be the adoptive "parents of the year" for 2006.
Hmmm...I wonder why other states are having to deal with homosexuals who were "married" in Mitt's Massachusetts, then.
The justices said they would decide only whether a lower court can recognize a same-sex marriage performed in another state for the purpose of handling a divorce petition. Lawyers for both sides say the divorce case won't decide whether gay couples can get married in Rhode Island.
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