Willard doesn’t like populists.
Grunthor: Beware the “temptations of RINOism”
If Willard reads this: We have nothing against CEOs and the like. What we do not like is having us tax payers bail out their butts when they make poor decisions.
Deep within the Willard headquarters...
Romney: “Darn that Caribou Barbie! She’s written a book and gotten billions of dollars of publicity!!!! AAaaarggghhh!!!!
“Wait. I know. I’ll write a book. I’ll go on tour. I’ll learn to hunt. I’ll show people I write on my hand too! I’ll buy some designer glasses.
“OK, team! Here’s what we need.
1. Hire a consultant to tell us what kind of book conservatives will buy.
2. Hire a ghost writer.
3. Set up a book tour! Do it quick people!!!
4. Get the dirty tricks squad in action fast!
I’ll need police badges made! I need to spin my
Massachusetts Socialist Health Plan somehow. Ideas?
“Quick people!
Does Romney know the difference between “populist” and “popular”. Does Romney categorize Bammy as a populist? One wonders.
Fidelity to the constitution isn’t populism. Demands that your elected leaders adhere to the constitution isn’t populism, either.
Classic liberal conservatism, which is limited government, individual liberty, individual responsibility, rule of law, respect for property, that isn’t populism either.
If Romney is going to disparage conservatives as populists, the onus is on him to define his terms. “Populist” is exactly what they are not.
"“The populism I’m referring to is, if you will, demonizing certain members of society: going after businesspeople, going after Wall Street, going after people who are highly educated, people who are CEOs,’’ Romney "
The only people the Tea Party is demonizing are politicians who spend without restraint, and show arrogance in ignoring the will of the people. The people going after Wall Street and CEO's are in the current administration.
The official definition of "populist" is:
Main Entry: 1pop·u·list
Pronunciation: \ˈpä-pyə-list\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin populus the people
Date: 1892
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
I think I normally think of definition #2. I always picture Andrew Jackson as the original populist, who got over 70% of the vote in his election. Of course, Washington was also a populist, in that he became President by unanimous acclamation.
Might be time to start up the ABM Treaty
Anybody But Mitt.
As I posted in an earlier thread:
GOP Begins “Romney 2012” Campaign (with a little help from glad-to-help Liberals; take a read)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2455215/posts
The full-court press is already on, and the establishment is going to do everything in their power to promote Mitt Romney.
They also know they can succeed through the usual formula of delegate count “tweaking” and primary “tweaking,” and by promoting 1%-ers to bleed votes from a Palin-type candidate.
You watch, even here at FR, we'll have people casting suicide votes with the full knowledge that Romney might win their primary by 1% because of it. (”Mitt Romney 38.0002%, Sarah Palin 38.0001%, Allen West 0.0002%. Thanks to the winner-take-all nature of the primary, Mitt Romney gets all 62 delegates......”)
Then there’ll be results like this:
1.) Mitt Romney 36%
2.) Sarah Palin 34%
3.) Haley Barbour 9%
4.) Jim DeMint 7%
5.) Mitch Daniels 5%
6.) Tim Pawlenty 4%
7.) Newt Gingrich 4%
8.) Duncan Hunter (write-in) 1%
You mark my words: as sure as I am posting here, it will happen. Just like it did with McCain, it will happen again. You watch.
Better people - like him - know what is best for the peasants.
Mitt is such an elitist loser.
Romney cannot be trusted. He’s a two face.
Here is what amazon said about willard’s book sales
Mitt Romney’s book sales are any indication of how he will do against Sarah Plain in the GOP primaries, things are not looking too good for our former governor from Massachusetts, at the moment.
While Sarah Palin’s book shot to # 1 at Amazon on pre-orders alone, on the same day that it was available for pre-orders (a good 2 months before it was released), Mitt Romney’s book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, is still stuck at # 245 in the Amazon sales rankings, with only one day to go before release tomorrow.
The SRM is going to be pushing Willard to be our man in 2012, and we need to say no Fn way.
These Romney threads aren’t much fun any more, with the Romneybots hiding in the wood work.
Every time one of these RINO twinkie globalist commies mentions "populists" in a condescending tone, another hundred thousand Tea Party Patriots join the ranks.
These RINO twirps are not a majority, and they cannot win if the voters ignore their lies, and vote for the conservatives in the primaries.