Romney defends Mass. health care law (Romney defends bankrupting Massachusetts)

boston globe ^ | 3/28/2010 | Sasha Issenberg

[Vigilanteman]

Do you really believe screaming “N*****!” helped the Obama campaign?

[Diogenesis]

What helped the Obama campaign was TEAM ROMNEY.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[Vigilanteman]

Keep deluding yourself and watch the mushy middle drift to Romney the same way the enemedia led them to McCain. Then, once he has the nomination sewn up, watch them join you in turning on him the same way they turned on McCain.

As I said, only an idiot will continue throwing rocks at an opponent who is already digging himself into a deep hole.

Do you really think the mushy middle is being persuaded by your moonbat rants?

[ansel12]

Raving moonbats like you are what keeps his campaign alive. Were it not for the whacked-out deranged element, most people would see Mitt as the garden variety RINO which he is. Thanks to your element, some people are taking a second look because they figure a guy which drives moonbats into a foaming, raging hissy fit can't be all bad.

That is one of the stupidest statements that I have seen in a while.

Romney is out there campaigning all day long, everyday, without a handful of people putting out the truth about him, no one would know it, just today, here at freerepublic I was thanked for some simple Romney data that I posted that many of us have seen repeatedly.

You have gone into "raging hissy fits" for years now while defending Mitt Romney and here you are today, still having a hissy fit because Mitt Romney is having information and links posted about his record here on freerepublic.

Nobody here needs "friendly advice" from you to layoff of Mitt Romney, and Mitt Romney is far, far, worse than a "garden variety RINO".

[Vigilanteman]

Romney is out there campaigning all day long, everyday . . .

. . . and digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole every time he tries to explain the difference between ObamaCare and the fustercluck which he helped spawn in Massachusetts.

If you want to limit your brick throwing to political differences, be my guest and post away.

My objection is to the people in moonbat land who want to apply a religious test and make McCain's natural successor into something worse than he really is. If the shoe doesn't fit, then don't wear it.

[ansel12]

Mitt Romney is sociopathic scum that needs to be driven out of national politics.

Mitt Romney: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."

"Reagan was adamantly pro choice"

Mitt Romney: "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."

Mitt Romney:"These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense," "They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."

Mitt Romney:"One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share."

[ansel12]

My objection is to the people in moonbat land who want to apply a religious test

You are claiming that you are making a religious defense of Romney on this thread?

[Vigilanteman]

The truth of the matter is that a better candidate which the conservative wing can unite behind will be necessary to prevent Mitt Romney from becoming the default nominee in 2012 the same way John McCain became the default nominee in 2008.

I have personally converted dozens of people both in person and on this forum to such a candidate, Sarah Palin. Have you converted anyone with your uncivil rants against the current leader among the RINO wing? Or, are you just content to replace him with an equally bad (or worse) RINO like Mike Huckabee?

The second truth is that whether he wins the nomination or not, it will take a majority of the Romney supporters to defeat ObaMao in the general election. How do you expect to win them over? By your continued incivility or by showing them a better way?

The fact of the matter is that we have a populace which is about 40% conservative, 40% mushy moderate or RINO and 20% moonbat leftwing socialist. If we had a fair press and an educated populace, people like Mitt Romney, the Bush family and the Blue Dog Democrats would be running the Democrat party, conservatives would be running the Republican party and the socialist Marxist wing would be in the fringes.

Instead, conservatives are in the fringes, RINOs are running the Republican party and the Marxists are running the Democrat party. If your entire focus is purging the Republican party of one RINO in particular, what is going to change?

[ansel12]

Was that a yes or was that a no?

You are claiming that you are making a religious defense of Romney on this thread?

[pissant]

Romney was the one who took “credit” for the socialist clap trap. Why would he veto it. It was his baby.

[Vigilanteman]

I was responding to post #26. I don't claim to see into anyone's mind, only observe that a lot of posters fit with Mitt Romney has more to do with his religion than his politics. Many of them freely admit such bigotry. Whether or not you fit that category is for you to decide.

All I have decided is that Romney is a far worse choice than Sarah Palin and a lot of other conservatives. But a far better choice than Obama and possibly slightly better than fellow RINO wing members like McCain or Huckabee. In your mind, I suppose that makes me the enemy.

[ansel12]

If you want to limit your brick throwing to political differences, be my guest and post away. My objection is to the people in moonbat land who want to apply a religious test and make McCain's natural successor into something worse than he really is. If the shoe doesn't fit, then don't wear it.

What are you posting about? I'm really having trouble with figuring out what you are trying to get out, I know that you are trying to help Mitt Romney on this thread, but it is so scatter shot and rambling that it comes out as just a big jumble of,

[Leisler]

This isn’t a mushy middle forum. It’s for right wing, conservatives. Conservatives that have firm principals and ideas.

Free Republic is no place for conservative moderation.