Posted on 10/29/2009 10:57:11 PM PDT by American Dream 246
As reported here by ABC News (online), Mitt Romney "...doesn't plan to make any endorsement at all" regarding the contentious NY23 Congressional race.
What does this say about Mitt? When balanced against Sarah Palin's political courage, it seems telling. Sarah is a political alpha, a leader for the future. Mitt, in spite of his genuine conservatism and mastery of issues, is almost certainly not.
You have to look no further to see why conservatives are so passionate about their support for Palin. Regardless of the arguable notion that she has yet to fully mature, she commands a degree of respect that eludes all others currently on the conservative scene. The reason? She is unwilling (and perhaps unable) to couch her views in muted, plausibly deniable tones. Regardless of the outcome of NY23, Palin wins. She drives debate. She leads. She is "out there" when and where others fear to tread.
Note that Huckabee and Pence remain on the sidelines where NY23 is concerned.
Political courage is interesting to witness, perhaps because it's so rare.
HA...he just outted himself!
Mitt = self serving jellyfish
***Mitt, in spite of his genuine conservatism...***
lol
I am not surprised about Mittens but Mike Pence is disappointing. I thought of Pence as the type of conservative who would mount a 4-year campaign for President with an RV with its own radio studio going from city to city.
I guess I was wrong. I guess he has been drinking that DC water too long.
So Romney must be for Owen.
***Mitt, in spite of his genuine conservatism...***
lol
Thanks.. glad I wasn’t the only one with that reaction.
MITT Installed BAUCUSCARE in MA, who call it ROMNEYCARE,
Mitt is a manager. He has no ideas of his own and does not know how to evaluate others’ ideas except how to implement them like health care in Massachusetts and when he takes to managing an impossible scheme, well, he fails with it more nicely than others would or gets out from under befpre they are too pbviously failures. A couple of Romneys might be good for a Republican Party in power and govering so long as it is a party with Conservative ideas and has a comfortable majority and no Romneys have actual leadership positions.
He will never be a Republican nominee and he will never be a god on planet Kolob.
Can we get real?
Mitt might be useful working for Sarah, but he isn’t ready for prime time on his own.
“Mitt, in spite of his genuine conservatism”?
If he endorses Hoffman, and Hoffman loses, it messes up his reputation with the other RINOs and DIABLOs, and will not reassure the conservatives.
If he endorses Pelosi Scozzafava, he has sunk himself with the conservatives whether she wins or not; and gains nothing with the other RINOs. It is "only what was expected."
Cheers!
Mitt, allow me to save you a lot of time, money, bother and frustration, here's the tough love brother, you'll never be elected President.
This is from someone, who ought to be your natural consistuency, a pro-free enterprise person. I was sympathetic to your campaign, when you started, as time went on, I turned against you. If you can't get my vote, that doesn't leave too many votes left for you to get.
Mitt, you can still make a huge contribution to America with a commission, like the Grace Commission, to get the Federal Government out of the way of the economy.
YES!
Romney’s game plan for winning the nomination is to be all things to all people. He wants the base to see him as a conservative, the RINOs to see him as a moderate, and the nonideological types to see him as a competent manager.
He couldn’t endorse anyone in this race because whatever he did would undercut one part of that game plan.
I wonder which candidate he actually prefers, Scozzafava or Hoffman. All we know for sure is that he’s chosen expedience over principle.
If there’s any justice in the world, a lot of the RINOs will be ticked off at him for not endorsing Scozzafava.
He’s fixing his hair. He’ll make his announcement on Wednesday
And the answer to that was for him to get in front of Palin and endorse Hoffman first. But that would be too visionary for the Mittster.
Let’s be fair, Mitt showed great courage and leadership by jumping right in and endorsing McDonnell of VA a couple of days ago, despite the fact that McDonnell is ahead in the polls by only 12 points. And he did this in front of a huge crowd of dozens who had turned out to hang on his every word.
Of course, Huck hasn’t been much better, goes all the way to NY to address the Conservative Party, and get an award from them, but then fails to endorse their candidate.
Mitt and Huck, what a pathetic pair, but yet, all those fancy polls keep coming out telling us that they are the frontrunners, more like the frontlosers, if you ask me.
GO Sarah, GO!
The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, poor loser “I am Myth” Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin (and her defenseless children) to throw Election2008.
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.
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."
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"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?"
How hard is it for Romney to just do what’s right.
For once in your life Mr. Romney, forget about personal political advantage and think about actually helping by getting behind the right candidate.
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
Mitt wants to serve and he has a lot he can contribute to this country (a heck of a lot more than I do). Let’s be positive and direct him into his area of expertise.
I dunno, but I don’t want another person who votes “present.”
He’ll never get my vote again, and I’m in Utah.
Having said that, it looks like both Mitt and Newt are jockeying for GOP support in the next election, probably because it was the Party that got McCain nominated. This system is so inherently wrong. We need to place ideology ahead of the good-old-boy system. We should return to the Party environment where the candidacy of a Ronald Reagan thrives instead of one where George HW Bush, Bob Dole, or John McCain is anointed because of loyalty to the oligarchy. Setting his business abilities aside, Mitt has really disappointed me on this one.
To present a case before a judge who was nominated for his position by a lawyer with a parent sitting on the senate judiciary committee, the issue of the appearance of impropriety surfaces immediately. Oh, maybe not to lawyers or their robed brethren, but to the poor slobs unfamiliar with the way their rights have been shredded, the stench of foul play is intense.
Romney, apparently, wanted to remove the odor. Regardless, the smell of the rotten heap we refer to as our system of justice is more than enough to warrant a thorough revamping of this incestuous selection process.
Just read Judge John Molloy’s revelations about this former, once honored profession. It has become a money making industry for club members, while depriving most Americans the very services for which it exists.
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