Rudy is a radical liberal and is not acceptable to the base.
Romney is recently a radical liberal, had a suspicious conversion when the campaign season began, and now is not acceptable to the base. He blames it on their anti-mormonism.
I blame in on the water in the flip/flop state of Kerry, Kennedy, and Dukakis.
Romney drank so much of it, it turned his brain to mush.
The level of idiocy in this forum apparently has no upper limit.
Um, no. Romney was never a radical not liberal.
If you want to know Mitt’s 1994 positions, look at his flyers:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/166511.aspx
http://www.politico.com/pdf/wmr_1994_senate_flier_side_1.pdf
In 1994, he ran as a mostly-conservative candidate against Ted Kennedy.
Mitt’s 1994 positions:
- pro death penalty
- pro mandatory sentences
- pro welfare reform: require work with welfare, drug testing
- opposing Clinton tax increases
- supporting tougher measures to stop illegal immigration
- support school choice through vouchers
- oppose govt takeover of healthcare, oppose employer mandates, opposed increased taxes to pay for govt healthcare
- support term limits
- oppose taxpayer finance campaigns
- support requiring congress live by laws they pass
- oppose higher taxes on social security recipients
his liberal positions were
- fight discrimination of all kinds
- women’s right to choose
Brody file says:
“The mainstream media likes to run with the flip flop angle. There’s validity to it but let’s also be real here. It’s a sexier story than one that shows how Romney’s been a pretty consistent conservative for awhile. This 1994 campaign flyer is being discussed on blog sites like Iowans for Romney.
Romney has taken a lot of heat for changing his position on abortion. But you have to wonder: Maybe Romney’s been a conservative all along. It’s just that in liberal Massachussets, to get elected, sometimes you have to bend a little more than you want to.”
There has been a lot less ‘conversion’ than assumed. On almost all issues (with the notable exception of abortion/life), Romney has been *consistently* and genuinely on the conservative side all along.