FWIW......on Intrade, Palin has overtaken Romney, so some people is putting money on Palin throughout the day, this may have to do with the interview.
Romney needs to understand that the support he got in the end was because he was the only thing standing in the way of McCain.
Ha sounds like the RomneyCare-ObamaCare comparison pwned Mittens.
Isn’t it getting hard to find specialists in Mass??
“I readily admit that he is the presumptive nominee. “
Far from it. It’s wide open, as far as I can tell. Sarah can have the nomination, IF she comes out as a conservative. But right now, her libertarian streak is showing a bit loud. If a well-respected Republican (like Demint) shows up, then anything can happen, again.
People making bets on who the 2012 Republican nominee is going to be this far out have rocks in their head.
Romney has so many flip-flops on record that he would go down the same way John Kerry did, without the adoring media.
It would be a disaster and I think the GOP has this as there clever plan on how to lose the 2012 election.
Some might think it impossible, but I think they can pull off an election day debacle!
Romney is a loser. Romneycare doomed him last time around to a substantial degree, and he came across in this interview as exactly what he is: a political opportunist. He passed a Socialized Medicine Program in a supposedly liberal state, and the Massachusetts residents now discover they hate it. It’s indefensible, and he’s stupid to try to go out and defend it. He needs to be taken off the Republican Stage ASAP and given some kind of background, low key position. Romney’s nothing more than a Bush-Style political hack with much more baggage to have to explain.
Romney is a “putz”!
Rominey & Huckabee = RINO’s we don’t need. Wouldn’t be surprised to see the RNC get behind either of them.
Romney touts not raising taxes to create/pay for his MA Health Care.
Wallace points out that he got FED money to create it.
Romney admits that FED money pays for half of the MA Health Care. That is the reason they didn’t have to raise taxes.
Oops.
But, Romney has nice hair!
Listening to the interview now. Romney uses the dreaded progressive phrase regarding the “Romney care” plan....”we moved forward”.
Then he admits there is a mandate in “Romney care” for people to buy insurance or their taxes go up. What a TOOL!!!
It was a huge debacle, I was speechless with what I heard, especially when Romney BRAGGED MA only pays 50% and the Feds (US) pays the rest of the cost.. how nice for the people of MA that we in Arizona help cover their health care expenses. /s
So whatever else romney care has or has not in common with bamacare, it has the prime poison pill firmly imbedded in it. The individual mandate, to my mind would be justification for organized resistance. If the rat-bastards can make you do that they can make you do anything. If Massachusetts was still American, it would be burning by now.
versus
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Flip-flop chameleon Mitt Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
versus
"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan
All I know is this in 2012: there is and will be a large segment of conservatives and republicans voting with their ‘HEART’ not their ‘HEAD’ in the GOP primaries, this might spell disaster for someone like Mitt, no matter how ‘presidential’ he may appear to be.
Whoever win the hearts of the people will run against Obama.
RomneyCare is not ObamaCare, much like a BJ in the Oval Office is not sex.