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The True Cost of Romney, Part 1
Free Republic ^ | April 25, 2012 | Black Elk

Posted on 04/26/2012 7:24:26 PM PDT by Windflier

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To: Windflier

Here is the difference in my mind.
Romney has a liberal record because he governed a liberal state and that’s what you gotta do in libville to get elected again.

Obama is a shyster community organizer to his very core.
I understand there is like 1° of separation between these clowns

Given the two I’ll take my chances on that 1° and I’ll knuckle down on it by putting every conservative in the Gov to remind him of his slim record.


41 posted on 04/26/2012 9:23:10 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Mountain Mary
Mark Levin is now talking with a worried sounding voice about how Romney will have to move farther right and act and talk more conservatively.

"Act and talk"? Levin has had his principles scared right out of his mind. I don't care what Romney says --- it's his RECORD, Levin!

How on earth does a man as smart as Mark Levin pretzelize his thinking process so badly that he can ignore a candidate's governing record, while hanging on every stupid word of campaign propaganda he utters?

Gads!

42 posted on 04/26/2012 9:26:45 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: mylife
I’m betting that he is shit skeered of mutiny. Obama desires it.

Obama's a fool or worse, if he actually desires a revolt. He can't win that fight, once it's started. No one can.

Patriotic America is the biggest, most well armed army on the planet. It would be sheer suicide to provoke us into a true rebellion.

43 posted on 04/26/2012 9:33:38 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Well said, but yet still very foolish.

I will vote for the idiot that wins the Republican Party primary process. Voting for anyone else is the same as voting for Obama, and neither my conscience nor my principles will allow me to do that. Neither will my love of my country nor my love of freedom. Bottomline, this nation may not be able to survive another 4 years if Obama is allowed to destroy us from within for 4 more years. He has already done more harm to this country then I could have imagined would be possible. Call me an alarmist etc. etc. etc., but I think there is damn good reason to assess that the alarm is justified. Either way I am not willing to chance being wrong about my alarm.

One thing you are right about I guess, is there is no we. Damn shame that you would support Obama in his re-election bid. Damn shame too that the best the Repblican Party can offer is Mitt Romney, but my vote will go for Mitt Romney, not Barack Hussein Obama. But the biggest shame is that you are allowing, the media, and the elitists of the Republican Party to split conservatives. By splitting, I mean diverting us from the common goal of removing the usurper Obama. That should be the only goal of conservatives/patriots, who want to restore the Constitution and return this country to God worshipping humans once again.

Mitt is no prize, but the refusal to vote for McLame got us Obama. Don't make the same mistake twice, because Obama truly is the fox on the hen house.

44 posted on 04/26/2012 9:33:57 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Windflier

Ummm, the same way you do perhaps? You complain about Romney’s record, while ignoring Obama’s truly disasterous record. Mark Levin is under no delusion about Mitt, but he recognizes the true danger of Obama. That’s why he will go along with Mitt.


45 posted on 04/26/2012 9:40:11 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Windflier

Ummm, the same way you do perhaps? You complain about Romney’s record, while ignoring Obama’s truly disasterous record. Mark Levin is under no delusion about Mitt, but he recognizes the true danger of Obama. That’s why he will go along with Mitt.


46 posted on 04/26/2012 9:47:25 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Windflier

Except of course if Obama is reelected you can fully expect to see a Chavez style take over of the rest of whatever we have. There will be no 2016 election.

Sinking the ship is not the way to get your point across


47 posted on 04/26/2012 9:48:34 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: mylife
Here is the difference in my mind. Romney has a liberal record because he governed a liberal state and that’s what you gotta do in libville to get elected again.

Stop making excuses for that degenerate liberal. Go and honestly read up on what he did while he was Governor of Massachusetts.

He was more than happy to work hand in hand with the liberals to forward their pinko Commie agenda. Read his comments during those days, and examine the famous photo of him signing RomneyCare into law. He's sitting there, grinning ear to ear, surrounded by the most evil Communists in US government of that time. They were his friends, and he delivered exactly what they wanted.

Where were his conservative 'friends', pray tell? There weren't any, because the man's an abject lying poser, that's why. He's even worse than a Democrat, because he fools good Republicans into supporting him. At least the Democrat spits in your face and tells you he's your enemy. Romney smiles at you while holding the knife behind his back - just waiting for you to trust him so he can stick it to you.

If the man had a shred of decency, or even if he was merely a Republican, he would have stood on his very best principles and governed Massachusetts in a responsible manner - no matter what the outcome of the next election would be.

Even after violating every known conservative principle, and giving the Massachusetts left everything they wanted and more, the slimeball left office with a 35% approval rating, and didn't even try to run for re-election because he had NO chance of winning.

So, what did selling out to the left get him? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Yet, he hasn't changed his stripes. He didn't learn a damn thing from that experience, and now he's asking the conservative right for their support in a national election. What utter, unmitigated gall!

48 posted on 04/26/2012 9:48:34 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Romney can't win without the conservative vote which he has not earned and doesn't deserve.

I predict failure.

The GOP needs to go the way of the whigs.

I would like to see a strong conservative 3rd party candidate rise up and destroy the GLOP (GRAND LIBERAL OLD PARTY)

49 posted on 04/26/2012 9:48:49 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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To: mylife
I understand there is like 1° of separation between these clowns

Given the two I’ll take my chances on that 1° and I’ll knuckle down on it by putting every conservative in the Gov to remind him of his slim record.

I'll go over the dynamics at work here again. A Republican Congress isn't going to stand up to, or thwart the agenda of a Republican president, no matter what his agenda is. They're going to go along to get along with 'their' guy.

A Republican dominated Congress will lock arms and OPPOSE a president who is clearly on the other side.

Think it through. Which of these presidents is going to stand a better chance of seeing their agenda enacted?

50 posted on 04/26/2012 9:53:02 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

Yeah, “core principles”!! You know, the ones you rather hand over to obambam to flush right down the toilet in his 2nd WH Occupation than a moderate Republican?! Puleeeeaase!!!

Btw, what “core principles” has got you so riled up that you would participate in the murder of your own country to spite it? I’m just curios.


51 posted on 04/26/2012 10:15:22 PM PDT by parisa
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To: Robert DeLong
I will vote for the idiot that wins the Republican Party primary process. Voting for anyone else is the same as voting for Obama

It's sad that you'll have to see the election and subsequent acts of a man to realize that his words and label mean nothing, and that it's his record that shows who he really is.

That record is nearly identical to Barack Obama's, and the fact that he'll have a compliant, Republican dominated Congress to roll over for him, will ensure that his predecessor's agenda rolls on without interruption.

In the end, a vote for Romney or Obama makes no difference, except to the future of the Republican party.

52 posted on 04/26/2012 10:17:16 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Robert DeLong
You complain about Romney’s record, while ignoring Obama’s truly disasterous record.

Who's ignoring Obama's disastrous record? Certainly not I. It's a foregone conclusion that Obama is the worst president this nation has ever seen. That's hardly worth discussing at this point.

No, what we're discussing, is the relative wisdom of electing a fraudulent Republican to the presidency who will likely carry on Obama's left-wing agenda, JUST like he did the last time he was elected to a position of power.

If our country has no other choice, and we're going to have a Socialist president no matter what, then I'd much prefer any further damage to the republic be done by the other side's Socialist, not ours.

There's also a very good chance that the Republicans will dominate Congress in the coming session. Given that there's little difference between the two Socialist contenders for the presidency, which one do you think the next Congress is more likely to oppose? The one wearing enemy colors, or the one who is ostensibly their own team captain?

Naturally, the answer is, they'll oppose the guy in the blue jersey. What's important here isn't who sits in the White House for the next four years, but what effects they'll create while doing so. The guy in the blue jersey will be hog tied and handcuffed, but no so with the guy in the red jersey.

If we're going to have a hard left liberal for our president, then I want him hog tied and handcuffed by a Republican dominated Congress, so that he can do the least amount of damage possible.

53 posted on 04/26/2012 10:30:37 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Nifster
if Obama is reelected you can fully expect to see a Chavez style take over of the rest of whatever we have. There will be no 2016 election.

You don't think I already know that he's going to attempt such madness and treason? Of course, he will.

What a lot of my fellow Freepers are failing to realize, is that the time for 'business as usual' has passed. We've been sold out to the ruling class establishment, who are controlling both sides of the game. They've manipulated this primary in such a way, that we don't have a real choice. We're going to get one of their dupes for president, no matter how we vote.

When faced with such a choice, what do you do? Throw away your core principles and play along with the enslavers?

No. You tell them to kiss your butt, and raise the Gadsden flag. You FIGHT BACK in every way you can think of. You resist. You withdraw your support, and do everything in your power to put a monkey wrench in their works. Use your imagination. Pick whatever level of civil disobedience you can confront, and give it everything you've got. Almost nothing's off the table, where your very freedom and liberty are concerned.

That is the 'third door', and it's the one we must take, if we really want to save our beloved republic.

54 posted on 04/26/2012 10:41:25 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Manic_Episode
Romney can't win without the conservative vote which he has not earned and doesn't deserve. I predict failure.

You're probably right on the money.

I remember bitching about how Romney never even tried to break bread with the Tea Party two years ago. I predicted then, that if he tried to run for president again (which even then, it looked like he would), that he'd have to hurry up and build a bridge to the Tea Party, because without us, he would have no chance of winning.

Well, the cowardly poser never had the nerve to even try it. He stayed far away from the Tea Party, and continued to cut deals with the establishment. Now here we are, and he expects us to vote for him because we've got nowhere else to go.

Screw that. I'll take my guidance from the Founding Fathers, thank you. I'd rather send that liberal traitor back to New England and ratchet the fight against tyranny up a few more notches.

I refuse to sit down and roll over for that quisling and his masters.

55 posted on 04/26/2012 10:50:22 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: parisa
"Moderate Republican"? What moderate Republican? There's no such animal running in this race.

If you're referring to Mitt Romney, you might want to check his record before even calling him a Republican, let alone, a moderate.

Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.

* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.

* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.

* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.

"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.

In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."

[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]


Romney's "accomplishments".

1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA

2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA

3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly

4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA

5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.

6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming

7. Supported the Brady Bill

8. Implemented a state level “Assault” Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.

9. Supported TARP

10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)

11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)

12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.

13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers.

Btw, what “core principles” has got you so riled up that you would participate in the murder of your own country to spite it? I’m just curios.

I suggest you start at the original post and read the entire thread if you're still unclear on that question. The murder of my country is exactly what I'm hoping to prevent. As to core principles, mine are reflected in our Founding Documents. Too bad Mitt's (and Obama's) aren't.

56 posted on 04/26/2012 11:00:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Nifster

The “ship sank” some time ago. The water just isn’t freezing...yet.


57 posted on 04/27/2012 12:57:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Windflier; All

While I may not be able to pull the lever for Romnbey, I will no longer cut him down and undermine his chances. That would be like colluding with the real enemy and to me is not much different than treason. We fought the fight and lost, no sense in going “Jane Fonda” by giving succor to the Dims and other commies.


58 posted on 04/27/2012 3:52:28 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Windflier

While there are some good comments in the thread, this one “Republicans will probably become the majority in both the House and Senate this year. They will lock
arms against an avowed enemy (Obama), but they will play nice with someone who they view as the
leader of their own party.” is not believable. Obama and Romney will have coattails and Obama’s people including white guilt voters will swing a few races his way. It is a pretty dangerous gamble to think there will be an opposition Congress against Obama.


59 posted on 04/27/2012 4:02:58 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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To: sand88
With the new RAT voters, courtesy of Mitt's love of Amnesty, the RATs will walk into the White House in 2016 and complete the destruction of our Liberties.

Or Obama rides a recovery and his successor continues his targetted killing of citizens and various other policies.

60 posted on 04/27/2012 4:05:36 AM PDT by palmer (Jim, please bill me 50 cents for this completely useless post)
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