Posted on 12/20/2007 3:43:24 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008
For the past year, Republican presidential candidates have kept a distance from their politically hobbled leader, criticizing President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, his immigration overhaul, his spending habits, his democracy promotion agenda and, at times, his leadership in Iraq. They wrapped themselves instead in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, often going through debates without mentioning the name of their incumbent president.
Now comes former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney voicing something not heard before in the campaign -- a full-throated defense of the president. Ever since last weekend, when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee published a scathing critique of what he called Bush's "arrogant bunker mentality" when it comes to foreign policy, Romney has jumped all over his chief rival in the Iowa caucuses by backing up the president.
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I believe Thompson and Guliani are defenders of President Bush. So is McCain, some times.
Bush has a base?
I guess he’s going for all 12 bots left on the ‘daily dose’ thread.
He sure does.
You don’t deserve a President the caliber of George Bush.
Does that mean we can expect Romney to continue Bush's agenda of artificially depressing the wages of the American worker by importing cheap labor?
“You don’t deserve a President the caliber of George Bush.”
You’re right. We all deserve better. Maybe next time!
And amnesty for illegals
You’re gonna have a lot of whining to do to former Bush supporters on this thread!
I have the feeling it’s going to be a real lonely thread for you.
I predict 5 posts before you descend to calling us bashers who “never supported him to begin with,” which while being a flat out untruth, will give you the level of self-satisfaction you’re looking for.
“Spin it however you want to, you know what I mean.”
Of course I do. You worship the man and therefore he is beyond criticism in your myopic eyes.
Right...former Bush supporters. LOL. If you supported GWB to start with, you still support him, because he’s done what he has said he would do.
I know a lot of people don’t like that. Too bad.
Wrong. He just hasn't done anything for me to criticize him over. I might have done it differently, but I don't have his perspective.
That's not worship, that's respect. I remember when people generally had it for a President (pre-Nixon days).
Does Romney mean the base that Bush has routinely pissed on for the past several years?
“Right...former Bush supporters. LOL.”
Right on schedule - so predictable. Did I call it or what?
“If you supported GWB to start with, you still support him, because he’s done what he has said he would do.”
He promised no nation-building.
He promised to move the US embassy to Israel, to Jerusalem.
During his stump speech and RNC acceptance, he promised to reform education Instead he grew the Dept of Education and gave us No Child Left Behind.
He promised to reform Medicare on the 2000 stump and in his RNC acceptance. Did you really think he meant a multi billion dollar prescription drug giveaway plan for seniors?
He promised to lower taxes. Well guess what, they will go back up on their own. It was never made permanent.
On the 2000 stump he promised to reform Social Security. I didn’t realize that this meant making illegal mexican aliens eligible to collect from our so-called trust fund.
I could keep going and going, but it doesn’t matter. You drank the kool aid.
“That’s not worship, that’s respect. I remember when people generally had it for a President (pre-Nixon days).”
Respect is earned, my FRiend. It can also be un-earned.
He responded to 9/11 on matters of foreign policy. Even a kindergartner should know that.
For the rest of it....blah, blah, blah.
Kids can read and write, Saddam is gone and Al Queda bloody, seniors don’t have to choose medicine or food, and we have not been attacked in six years.
What he hasn’t accomplished, he at least tried. You remember his attempt to do something with Social Security?
I cannot in my lifetime remember a President that has done so much for this nation. That’s not koolaid, that’s reality.
You should try some.
You don't fault a man for sticking by his guns.
"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."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
"I wasn't a Ronald Reagan conservative."
(Mitt Romney In Interview with Marc Ambinder,
"Romney Explains Himself," National Journal, 2/9/07)
"I've lived in a place that has had one party state that was primarily Republican.
I thought well won't that be nice? The answer is no." (Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)>br> Romney - The Democrat's RINO
"Hillary Clinton is very much right, it does take a village, and we are a village
and we need to work together in a non-skeptical, non-finger-pointing way..."
("For City Problems, Future Solutions," The Boston Globe, 3/1/98)
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First, some of us aren't all that thrilled with GWB, so that may not be your best lead-in. Second, conservative folks who were in Masshole during his little sojourn there are somewhat confused about what exactly he stood for or did as Governor.
when you find the conservative outside of Duncan Hunter will you please post his or her name on the freerepublic
It only took two posts. THese bots need to get a new script.
Romney has not stab President Bush in the back during time of war and this is a sign of a great man. Anyway, we are on the verge of winning the war in Iraq (we won it in my opinion), and it will be a fatal mistake for the Republican nominee to go after the President. He can disagree with him in some areas but to attack him is absolute foolishness.
Is 1+1=2? What type of question is that?
Good call...
“For the rest of it....blah, blah, blah.”
WHile I was typing a short list of the many broken promises, my thoughts were -
Why am I wasting my time with this guy? He asked for it, but didn’t want to hear the answer - it will be disregarded.
You’re like a little girl who plugs her ears with her fingers and goes, “nyah nyah nyah, I can’t hear you!” when she hears somethign she doesn’t like.
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