Romney: Don't root for Obama to fail

I wonder how many folks actually read the details, as opposed to the typical knee-jerk reaction of blasting Romney...

I wonder how many Romney supporters actually consider Romney's past record, past words, and present words, as opposed to the typical knee-jerk reaction of insulting fellow Republicans by accusing them of being so stupid as to fall for media manipulation....

Somebody's being manipulated here, allright -- supporters of Mitt "Eddie Haskell" Romney, when he tells America "You certainly look lovely today, Mrs. Cleaver." Such a nice, convenient, ego-soothing, and timely thing for Romney supporters to claim "media-manipulated infighting among conservatives" of sadder-but-wiser Republicans and conservatives who know an Eddie Haskell when they see one and understand that if the GOP goes for Romney, the GOP abandons conservative principle and enough votes to go the way of McCain AGAIN. And AGAIN, Romney supporters would guaran-dam-teed blame everybody but Romney and themselves for the fiasco.

The MSM is not the one "pitting us against each other." Gullible old ladies who think Eddie Haskell is a wonderful young man and those who distrust him are "hateful" are the ones doing that.

But hey, I understand how it soothes your ego to pretend otherwise.

Romney praises Obama
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama
at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday ..
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said....
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough ....The former businessman even offered faint praise for
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps,
"I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."

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Mitt Romney chortles as he inflicts socialized medicine (HillaryCARE=ROmneyCARE)
upon the Massachusetts citizens, without one of their votes (the ROMNEYway(TM)),
after spending years inviting illegal aliens to fill the Commonwealth from Pittsfield to Chatham.
Mitt Romney delivered HillaryCARE to the DNC for them, at the expense of the citizens.

"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."

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FLASHBACK:

FRee Republic Member Opinion
Thompson 66.8% 1,658 - WINNER
Romney 12.7% 315

Post Election Rasmussen poll - GOP voters:
Palin -- 64% - WINNER
Huckabee -- 12%
Romney -- 11%

Somebody's being manipulated here, allright -- supporters of Mitt "Eddie Haskell" Romney, when he tells America "You certainly look lovely today, Mrs. Cleaver."

Excellent, sobering post.

Eddie Haskell is the perfect analogy.

Very well.

Of the things to get so worked up over, one little meaningless remark that wasn’t put the right way’.

Romney is an internationalist like Obama, ergo he doesn’t see this the same way most of us see it.

Shut your commie pie hole Mitt. We don’t need your crap.

Speaking of Steele, got a call from RNC this morning, didn’t even go into my usual diatribe, just hung up.

Mitt is still preferable to BHO....HELL, I would vote for Brad Pitt efore Obama !

You know what turned me off to Mitt?
I haven’t seen this anywhere, but I knew in my gut he was bad news when his ambition trumped his wife with MS.

What man in his right mind would drag his woman with MS through a political campaign?

I didn’t need much to know Clinton was bad news, and that’s all I needed to know about Mitt.

What’s up with Mitt? Did he catch a bad case of LindseyGrahamitis?

He's just being who he is after pretending to be who he wasn't during the campaign last year.

"You know what turned me off to Mitt?
I haven’t seen this anywhere, but I knew in my gut he was bad news when his ambition trumped his wife with MS."

Exactly. Romney abused his voters, abused his dog,
abused the Mass citizens whom he inflicted with socialized medicine and
Romney's overturning of the Mass.Constitution to impose gay marriage,
and so Romney's wife was just another plaything who had to kneel before, and quitely serve, her master.

This sentiment can be interpreted several ways, and I'm inclined to give Willard the benefit of the doubt - maybe since I know that he will never play a role in national politics, I'm less concerned about tearing him down.

When (not if) the Obama regime collapses, it's going to be a horrible, and maybe bloody, mess. Conditions will exist all across the nation that have not been seen since 1865-67. People will suffer, and people will die, unnecessarily.

It's not wrong to hope this doesn't happen. Every day Soetero is in office, the price of his removal goes up.

Fearing the cost is a reasonable expression of patriotic sentiment.