Posted on 06/10/2008 8:04:38 PM PDT by Plutarch
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain spent a marathon day raising money on Monday, and it went well: after events in Virginia and Washington, D.C., the campaign and the Republican Party pulled in more than $2 million...
Finally, there was praise for his opponent-turned-supporter, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
“There’s nobody who represents me better today than Mitt Romney,” McCain said.
Are you listening, governor? That could be the sound of a vice presidential offer coming down the road …
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...
75% of FReepers supported Romney right before he dropped out. IOW, he has passed the most conservative litmus test there is. Sure it was their third choice, but anyone who can get a clear majority of FReeper support isn't nearly as bad as you portray him to be.
Mitt's bronze star finish (Fred Gold, Hunter Silver) on FR is something he can brag about.
Analysis of actual voters showed that the majority of conservatives (not moderate or liberal republicans) voted for Romney in actual vote counts. The analysis was posted here on FR and it is one of the times Rush plugged FR on his live show when he discussed the analysis. Rush also said that the best thing to come out of the Republican Primaries was the Faith in America Speech, that Mitt wrote himself.
So anyway, why don't you ask yourself what it is the majority of Conservatives understand about Mitt Romney that you are mising.
Human Events included Romney for his switch on abortion which they didn't believe in 2005 when this was written.
Seeing as how the editors left abortionist Rudy off the list (or McCain for that matter) I don't think the list holds much water.
Human Events has since written many articles praising Romney. But of course leave it up to RDS'ers to recycle the old line over and over and over again.
Romneys has B rating from the NRA not perfect but passable. His position on guns matches Reagan. Try Googling the Mulford act, Brady Bill or his open letter supporting the AWB. Romney matches Reagan on this issue.
What I find interesting is that all the good looking women are for Romney and the homely socialist hippies are for the Dems. I understand your ciriticism of liberals. The Obama crush girl was paid and the song was written by a man. EWWWW. so she doesn't count anyway.
But what do you have against good looking conservative women? Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham etc. who voted for Romney
As an aside, Utah was the first state to grant women the right to vote. (Though Wyoming voted first since their election was sooner and they passed the law right after Utah)
Utah is the only state Bill Clinton came in third and is the most Republian state in the Nation. I'd say conservative women know quite a bit about who to trust or not in politics.
According to just another "objective" poster who happens to be paid by the Keyes campaign.
And got busted lying about it.
Lets see we have a lying staffer on Keyes payroll telling us their "objective" opinion of Romney.
Yes we do, Rameumptom, oh yes we do. :-)
Life sucks when even the Constitution party won't have you.
Wiki Departure from the Republican Party
Even after John McCain won the necessary 1,191 delegates to the Republican National Convention, Keyes did not withdraw, even though he was no longer campaigning for the Republican nomination.[79] On March 27, 2008, Keyes' campaign website began displaying the Constitution party's logo, along with a parody of the trademarked GOP logo in the form of a dead elephant.[81] This appeared to be an indication of Keyes' intentions to quit the Republican party and to begin officially seeking the Constitution Party's presidential nomination.
On April 15, Keyes confirmed his split from the GOP and his intentions to explore the candidacy of the Constitution Party.[82][83] He lost his bid for the party's nomination, however, coming in second to former CP vice presidential candidate Pastor Chuck Baldwin at the party's national convention in Kansas City, Missouri on April 26, 2008.[84] During the convention, the party's founder Howard Phillips gave a controversial speech in which he referred to Keyes as "the Neocon candidate" who "lingered in the Republican Party until a week ago."[85] Following the defeat, Keyes held an interview with Mike Ferguson in which he compared his defeat to an abortion.[86] Later, Keyes told a group of his supporters that he was "prayerfully considering" making a continued bid for the presidency as an independent candidate.[87] He later asserted his refusal to endorse Baldwin's candidacy.[88]
Oh the drama... An abortion?... Sure he got dissed by the Constitution party but comparing his predicament to murdered babies? That's a bit over the top.
We know there are plenty of liberals posting on FR. There was a time when 60% of FReepers said they'd vote for the liberal Rudy Giuliani, if he became the GOP nominee. We know how that turned out.
After conservatives Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter dropped out of the race, the handwriting was on the wall. Romney's campaign was over as well. The votes he received in one late season FR Poll were meaningless. When the FR Poll had real meaning, Romney was never a factor. Truth is, Willard never had serious support inside or outside of FR.
Obviously, you're still infatuated with Willard the Myth's style over substance campaign. A campaign based on political expediency, not conservative principle. Romney remains a fraud and a phony.
I’ve asked you many times to name me one other Governor, other than Mitt Romney, who has instituted gay “marriage,” socialized medicine, complete with taxpayer-funded abortions, the total homosexualization of state government and the public schools, and a permanent “assault” weapons ban.
I’ll bet you still can’t come up with one.
Which is why I will continue to call him what he is: “The most liberal Governor in the history of the republic.”
Now youre really sounding like a liberal. Perhaps a recount is in order until it fits your view of the matter? Perhaps you could sue other FReepers as well since their votes on the matter don't mean anything anyway.
If you need a lesson in the seperation of powers I can't help you.
Romney fought against gay marraige against the two other branches. He fought back the activist judges and the legislature and worked to force a State marraige amenedment be put on the 2008 ballot so the will of the people can be accomplished.
The MASS activist judiciary ruled in that fags could marry. The legislature ignored the will of the people. Romney sued the legislature to force the will of the people which they had ignored.
When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in the case of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health legalized same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, Gov. Romney identified and enforced a little-known 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state. This prevented gay couples living outside Massachusetts from flocking to MA to be married and then returning to their home states to demand the marriages be recognized, thus opening the door for nationwide same-sex marriage. Implementation of the 1913 law was contested in court by same-sex couples from outside MA, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in March, 2006 to uphold the application of the law. (Jay Lindsay, "Mass. high court says nonresident gays cannot marry in state," The Associated Press, 3/30/2006)
Gov. Romney provided active support for a citizen petition drive in 2005 that collected 170,000 signatures for a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage, breaking a 20-year-old record for the most certified signatures ever gathered in support of a proposed ballot question. He rallied citizens to place pressure on the Legislature for failing, through repeated delays, to fulfill their constitutional obligation to vote on placing the marriage amendment on the ballot. Gov. Romney filed suit in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) asking the court to clarify the legislators’ duty to vote on the issue of the amendment, or place the amendment on the ballot if the Legislature failed to act. The SJC declared that legislators had a constitutional duty to vote on the petition in a ruling handed down on Dec. 27, 2006. The suit was successful in pressuring the Legislature to vote on the issue of the amendment. A vote was taken on January 2, 2007 and the measure passed. Through Governor Romney’s considerable efforts and leadership, a state constitutional amendment defining marriage to be between one man and one woman passed a critical hurdle to get it placed on the 2008 ballot where voters in Massachusetts would have the power to restore traditional marriage in their state.
Perhaps you should google the Gipper and the mulford act, brady bill or his open letter to Sen. Krugman in support of the AWB.
Is that all you have?
Another dumb post. LOL
I think the proof is in the pudding as they say. Romney has backed up his words with actions, while many of those supposedly “real Republicans” out there have done nothing but sit on the sidelines and whine.
True colors get revealed in such times.
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