Mitt Romney’s speech unites conservatives (Huh?!)

The Hill ^ | September 21, 2009 | Bernie Quigley

[2ndDivisionVet]

At the 2009 Value Voters Summit this past week, Mitt Romney directly addressed President Barack Obama’s incomprehensible and fatally flawed decision, unprecedented in the American political tradition, to tax future generations. In an administration quickly marked for its wistful look to the past, Obama’s decision brought to mind 15th-century Russia. Is that why they call them czars?

"Putting such a spirit-crushing, back-breaking debt burden on our children is unworthy of our national character," Romney said. "That is why I believe that this spending and borrowing is not just economically irresponsible, it is morally wrong."

It poisoned this most auspicious and most inclusive Obama administration from the very beginning. History — the future — will rise from that moment. It already has. Directly following, back in February, New Hampshire state Rep. Dan Itse proposed that the federal government had no right to do this, that it was immoral to do so and the states have constitutional defenses against this. Almost overnight, 30 states followed his cue. Tax revolts and the current town hall disturbances followed.

Blame it on Glenn Beck, blame it on Sarah Palin, blame it on Rick Perry, but that Romney has endorsed these efforts, as he did this weekend, changes the political scenario. Because if Glenn Beck is a demagogue, then now Mitt Romney is a demagogue. If Sarah Palin is a threat to the republic, then so is Mitt Romney. If Texas Gov. Rick Perry, possibly the most competent and successful sitting governor, is a traitor and a secessionist, then so is Mitt Romney. Questions will rise now it the hearts and minds of networks chiefs: Whom do we stake our political future on now, Mitt Romney or Tina Fey? Who will market our heroic charade for this just one day today? Mitt Romney or David Letterman? And how will we be remembered when the moment is recalled?

As The Hill reports, Romney called the tea party protesters “patriots” who have often been derided by Democrats, and said they could block the president’s agenda.

“Thanks to millions of Americans who have stepped up in town halls and tea parties across the country, he’s not going to get his way,” Romney said.

The Romney speech is an auspicious beginning. The Christian Science Monitor called the conference “a more genteel anti-Obama tea party.” Prior to this there was a division between what might be called Western Republicans like Rick Perry, who supported, endorsed and participated in the April 15 tea parties, and what might be called the traditional, culturally conservative Eastern Republicans who opposed.

The question since February 2009 was how mainstream conservatives like Romney would respond to this movement. The question since August 2008, was how mainstream conservatives would respond to the rising spirit in the heartland personified by then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap.

Things end where they begin, the Buddhists tell us. The great leader and conservative thinker, Irving Kristol, who passed away just this past week, asked this question in abstraction back in the late 1950s when liberal lions like Norman Mailer and conservative writers like Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter were still friends: Which should we trust in our hearts to lead us into the future, New York and Washington or the American heartland?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, because he's the 21st Century's Lincoln, Ike and Reagan, all rolled into one. LOL

Did Bernie get paid by the word, or is he on retainer, do you think?

[BGHater]

‘This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap.’

WT*!!

[darkangel82]

Too many WTFs in here.

[4rcane]

the media is promoting romney, like they did with mccain as the gop alternative

[Rome2000]

[Colonel_Flagg]

Whom do we stake our political future on now, Mitt Romney or Tina Fey?

Neither. I love questions that answer themselves.

[Diogenesis]

Romney - beloved by the DNC. Now why would that be?

James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

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David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

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David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
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, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "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."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,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."
These 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:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
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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[Rodebrecht]

Eisenhower was no conservative. He was a moderate recruited by the liberal Rockefeller wing of the GOP to run for president, before he jumped in bed with the Democrats, so they could keep Robert Taft from wining the nomination.

[bigbob]

Mitt who?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

When did Mitt get conservative? I must have missed the last wind change!

[Arizona Carolyn]

What! Did he re-invent himself one more time?

[Reagan Man]

I see all the usual suspects are accounted for.

What a crock!

[skinkinthegrass]

hmmm....strangely familiar, from last year's campaign....and the Liberals Stalinist Communists cheer wildly then, too.

[JohnLongIsland]

We are so screwed if any of the candidates for president from the last election run again. The last thing this party needs is a bunch of retreads.

[RAO1125]

They’re right, Romney’s speech unites conservatives... against him.

[Nathan Zachary]

Exactly!

"Putting such a spirit-crushing, back-breaking debt burden on our children is unworthy of our national character," Romney said. "That is why I believe that this spending and borrowing is not just economically irresponsible, it is morally wrong."

Those are powerful good words, but coming out of Romney's mouth? Obama media will slaughter Romney for the hypocrite he is for saying them.
All they have to do is point to Romney care.

No question Media is trying to choose Romney to be the next failed Rino. They'll court him with kind words until the Gop is convinced he's a sure winner, then slaughter him right after the primary is over, ignoring him except to slap him down occasionally while showing Obama lowering the sea levels, healing the sick, feeding the poor.

[American Constitutionalist]

That describes him perfectly.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Can they be any more obvious trying to help this Socialist fraud ?

[trubolotta]

Exactly right - picking the GOP candidate voted “most likely to lose”.

[familyop]

It’s a game of political chicken. Vote for the globalist, anti-family candidate, or the other globalist, anti-family candidate will be reelected.

[Soul Seeker]

I wish it was just the media. But, no, the establishment in or supportive of the Republican party has also been pushing him. The ones that view themselves as “conservative” and king makers only more refined and wise than those they “Lead”. :p

[jla]

"The question since February 2009 was how mainstream conservatives like Romney would respond to this movement. The question since August 2008, was how mainstream conservatives would respond to the rising spirit in the heartland personified by then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap."

Mitt's gonna be so embarrassed after the primaries.
Mrs. Palin is not only the personification of the heartland, she is the personification of America as envisioned by Jefferson, Madison, Jay and Monroe.

[Squantos]

Sending donations to Sarah for 2012 everytime these rinos kick dirt on her.

At this rate I should be broke by the weekend

Jeff do ya have that IAM link to share again ?

[DannyTN]

‘This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap.’

ROFLMAO!!!! I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity of that comment, or be incensed at the insult to the real conservatives.

[DannyTN]

I think the Media senses a democrat loss next election. So they are promoting the most democrat like republican.

[2ndDivisionVet]

See my tagline...

[CanaGuy]

Sheesh. Don't tell me the "Mormon Cultist" is cranking up another bid for the next election cycle. Some people never learn and refuse to see the real reasons they fail.

From an interview with Sir John Mortimer, author of the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.

Q: "Rumpole has been around since 1975. How has he changed over the years?"

A: "I don't think he's changed at all. He's like Sherlock Holmes -- he doesn't seem to age. He stays the same. But then I'm not a great believer that people change. People who write Hollywood scripts always think that characters have to learn things and change and develop. I think nobody learns anything. I think they make the same mistakes throughout their lives till they drop dead."

[Squantos]

Sweet ! She gets my full support based on her past record. She gets such till she shows me she no longer seeks such or proves to me she no longer warrants such.

Trust is limited these days. Sarah has mine for now based her past performance. Not promises of the future. I know she will try. That is all I ask of anyone.

Great tagline !

Stay Safe !

[yongin]

Did Romney pay the author to write this puff piece?

If Romney is the conservative favorite, then why didn’t he win the Value Voter Summit straw poll?

[presently no screen name]

That’s it - we know who will be getting the anointed tap on the shoulder. Fits right in w/his commie views.

[Texas Jack]

/sarcasm on

I'm so confused. I thought that the "state run media" and the DNC had already picked the Huckster from Arkansas as the next presidential candidate for the Republican party.

If only I'd been born a demoRat, then I'd be smart enough to see through all of this complexity.

/sarcasm off

[Jeff Head]

Sure Squantos, Here you go.

INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

[freepersunite]

Romney laughed at Ron Paul when he warned during the debates what would happen. He is horrible

[freepersunite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=denwLR6Qmfo

[Squantos]

Thanks Jeff !!!

[trisham]

The big push is on to make Romney our next nominee.

[Clintonfatigued]

As many have said in “Get Smart,” I find that hard to believe.

[Norman Bates]

Ike was a great president. Period.

[Rodebrecht]

I'll have to respectfully disagree.

[Norman Bates]

You’ve got to be kidding.

[Rodebrecht]

Using federal troops to enforce a mandate handed down by some activist court isn’t cool. Or constitutional. But, other than that, Eisenhower was definitely one of the better presidents of the second half of the 20th century.

[greyfoxx39]

Bernie Quigley said
May 28, 2009 at 12:05 pm
"I don’t think Mormons should complete with other “ethnicities” for a seat on the Supreme Court. No Chinese? No Buddhists? Etc., etc. I am not Mormon but have been coming to the opinion that Mormons will have a greater destiny in America’s future. We are about to enter a major transition in our country from the North/South perspective to an East/West perspective. This will grow as trade travels across the Pacific. Mormons will rise with the west. Our country will begin again to its full destiny.

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Quigley again:

"Bernie Quigley turns his pen toward 2012. And oh. By the way, he thinks Huntsman would make a terrific VP pick for Palin (can you imagine the symbolism in that one?).

Romney could in the end find his place is history as pathfinder, gatekeeper and political elder for Mormons. As Obama opened the door for blacks and other minorities so Romney allows entry to this enormously gifted and politically mature group which has been scorned and outcast from American politics entirely because of insidious and un-American religious prejudice.

Romney: The Mormon Obama

Playing the "persecution" card. Bet ME that Quigley is "not a mormon".

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[Godzilla]

The Romney speech is an auspicious beginning. The Christian Science Monitor called the conference “a more genteel anti-Obama tea party.”

Media suck-up for RINO-lite

[svcw]

WTF? Where is the Twilight Zone?

[Elsie]

Whom do we stake our political future on now, Mitt Romney or Tina Fey... ...or David Letterman?

These are the CHOICES we get?

Just like the USSR in the good ol' days!

[Elsie]

Which should we trust in our hearts to lead us into the future...

Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

[Elsie]

On The Good Wife's cellphone!

[Psalm 144]

GREAT cartoon, skinkinthegrass!

Really though, to all of the doubters, give Romney a chance.

If you don’t like him right now, just wait a minute . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZC92IXHyw&feature=related

[jeltz25]

This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap.

This might possibly be the single dumbest statement I have ever read in any publication on any topic anywhere.

The fact that The Hill would publish such an article has me wondering about them. It is so blatantly misinformed and mistaken that it’s comical.

[Antoninus]

These Romney-ites are crack-smoking idiots.

Mitt Romney is a bust. If he is our nominee in 2012 (God forbid!), it guarantees Obama a 2nd term.