Posted on 09/26/2009 11:20:30 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Mitt Romney, the early favorite of many for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, is making nice with his rivals from the last race.
The former Massachusetts governor, who was the source of much consternation among his opponents during the GOP presidential primaries last year, has made strides to repair those relationships in recent days.
The latest example came Saturday in Romney’s speech to the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference in Michigan, in which Romney will praise former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s (R) effort to clean up New York and suggest Detroit could use a similar program.
“Detroit needs to be given a Giuliani-style shake up,” Romney said, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks. “I hope the new mayor does just that. And Michigan needs to send a clear and resounding message to the world’s employers that Michigan is a good place for business.”
Romney’s gratuitous praise of Giuliani comes just days before 2008 GOP presidential nominee John McCain (R-Ariz.) is set to co-host a fundraiser for Romney’s Free and Strong America political action committee.
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None of them represent me!
Romney may yet be useful, but in the service of a leader like Sarah.
Slick Willard serves no one but himself.
Just what we need. Run Romney and we’ll get 4 more years of Obama
What is to barf about. Now is not the time for one Republican to be trashing another. BTW, do you think Rudy did not do a good job cleaning up NYC and that Detroit might not benefit from that example?
The media knows that. Why do you think they want him nominated ?
Slick Willard is not a Republican.
He is the kind of Rep who can win in MA. What would you expect a GOP statewide office holder from MA to be?
Haven’t I had this convo with you before ? Go do some research.
I would’ve taken the guy who dressed in drag over the guy without the birth certificate any day of the week.
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The last thing the Republican party — or the nation — needs is another damn RINOcrat.
Not just no — but HELL NO, Mitt!
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A non-Socialist. Either offer a Conservative alternative to the Democrats or don't degrade the party and run at all. Of course, thanks to Slick Willard and his Socialist comrades, there's no GOP left in MA, exactly what they wanted.
I think Romney can beat Obama in four years. I think almost anyone can.
Rudy is liberal scum.
So is Romney.
Case closed!
short and sweet and DEAD on...
Only if the left gets totally disillusioned with him and someone rallies the right.
Don’t forget what short memories too many voters have.
Go AWAY, Mitt.
Does Romney not realize that the one thing that united all the 2008 GOP Primary Candidates was their universal loathing of him LOL?
And this was a race that had Ron Paul in it!
I have always, always said that Mitt doesn’t get America. Mostly because of his Mormonism, his privileged upbringing, and his elite( ist ) education and financial business career.
Non of which brings one closer to popular sentiment.
Mitt is doing what I would expect a life long, not too bright, nor inquiring, uber obedient child of Mormon Royalty and suffocating upper income conformity would do. That is brown nose older power figures of the Establishment.
So, oh good, more of the same wimpy, warm old bath water of GOP/RNC conformism.
He’s delusional if he thinks his wealth can buy my vote, much less most conservatives.
That used car salesman liar and hypocrite FLIP SLICK WILLARD RINO ROMNEY can don his funny pajamas and take a long walk off a short pier.
Now is absolutely the time to trash TRASH like Romney!
i don’t think making nice with a McCain and gulliani will not help him at all. :(
I regret voting for McCain :( but I mostly voted for sarah palin I remembered when they lost I was actually looking for th first female vp. Hopefully she will be the first female president in 2012 :D
lol!! :D
>>>What is to barf about. Now is not the time for one Republican to be trashing another. BTW, do you think Rudy did not do a good job cleaning up NYC and that Detroit might not benefit from that example?
For this crew any time is a good time to trash republicans. That’s pretty much all they do. Every day, week in and week out. Some republican to the left of David Duke has ham and eggs for breakfast, they start a thread with a barf alert and the lunch crowd cries and moans and barfs about the “traitor”.
Moveon doesn’t work this hard to divide the opposition. Or maybe they do, although I think it’s more the Ron Paul/Bircher fantasies running free. Not that there is much difference anyway. Pretty difficult to tell them apart.
And Rudy did a magnificent job bringing NYC back from the brink. Something FR applauded for years until Rudy ran for president and FR went schizoid on the subject. Sadly I don’t see Detroit being so lucky.
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.
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?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Lol! We have a post of the day winner and the sun isn’t even up yet.
I shall defer to post 10, with which I wholeheartedly agree: "Slick Willard is not a Republican."
If you want to defend Romney, why don't you try defending his Romneycare initiative, which was basically Obamacare without the public option. Or maybe his support for bailouts and economic stimulus.
THE REAL DEAL on Willard "I am Myth" Romney’s pseudoRepublicanism:
"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
RINO mating season?
How’s that state healthcare working again, Mitt?
Why was it OK for Team Romney to attack Gov. Palin
and her defenseless children during Election2008?
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.
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I am not a Romney fan but I think you can link McCain’s loss directly to the day he suspended his campaign to go back to DO (remember the financial crisis) only to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and vote FOR the bailout money.
David Duke isn’t a Republican, either. In fact, Dukey has a lot more in common with Slick Willard. They both were former NON-Republicans who used the GOP to further their goals of political power, and they didn’t care if they destroyed the party in the process.
Just love the way the left wing press picks our candidates. Time to spread the rumor that “moderate” Maxine Waters is a favorite candidate amongst the grassroots to challenge obuma for the rat nomination in 2012.
“In college campuses across the country, Maxine Waters stickers are appearing on dorm walls. Ms. Waters is a moderate democrat who has energetically challenged police brutality and excessive profits earned due to working. Known as the Black Scarlett of Suave in her inner circle of associates, Ms. Waters is a favorite of the noblesse glitterati on hot and steamy Latin beaches 90 miles south of Miami.
“Her campaign slogan ‘Do you know who I am?’ is catching on with the de rigueur elites in the canyons of Hollywood, as well as earning polite nods of approval among the wizards of Wall Street courting bail out cash...”
>>>If you want to defend Romney, why don’t you try defending his Romneycare initiative,
This asinine thread wasn’t about Romneycare. It was about one republican speaking respectfully about another. This is something politicians do, even towards people not of their own party. And for THAT we have a thread like the apes in 2001 would have spun, grunting and throwing their feces around the monolith. In other words, just one more like so many before, essentially about nothing at all.
And in this case praise of Rudy’s successful record as mayor of NYC, something Detroit could only dream of. Something so obviously true that good faith cannot be assumed for anybody who adds a Barf Alert to object to it.
>>>David Duke isn’t a Republican, either. In fact, Dukey has a lot more in common with Slick Willard. They both were former NON-Republicans who used the GOP to further their goals of political power
That’s your trump card ? So did Ronald Reagan. And you repeat the line Duke isn’t a republican. He ran for the Louisiana legislature as a republican and in the 1992 republican presidential primary. But I agree he isn’t one, the same as Ron Paul isn’t a republican regardless of what he may call himself for convenience. Both certainly work to harm those who are Republicans and in so doing, strengthen the Obamas of the world.
The dems have the Laurachies, and I guess we likewise have this sort of stuff poisoning the system. Pretty much the same difference.
And what Republican would that be again ?
"That’s your trump card ?"
You dug up David Duke, Hoss, what can I say ?
"So did Ronald Reagan."
Ronald Reagan was a Nazi like Duke ? Or just a basic big government Socialist like Slick Willard ?
"He ran for the Louisiana legislature as a republican and in the 1992 republican presidential primary."
You can run for whatever party you wish in LA at the time, there was no party primary, whichever were the top two vote getters, and it didn't mean you were a member of that party in good standing. If he was a member of the party in good standing, Bush Numero Uno wouldn't have had to publicly rebuke his candidacy after the Gubernatorial jungle primary.
"But I agree he isn’t one, the same as Ron Paul isn’t a republican regardless of what he may call himself for convenience."
You're really an odd one. You go off on a tangent, and now after all that nonsense, you're conceding my point was correct.
"Both certainly work to harm those who are Republicans and in so doing, strengthen the Obamas of the world."
Just like Slick Willard and Huckster have done with their crapola (and Captain Strawberries, too). Of course Dr. Demento is nuts, but nobody ever considered him first tier. We need to keep out the trash from the '08 cycle that handed this country over to a Zero on a silver platter, and those asshats need to go far, far away. That's how they'd serve the party best. Disappearing.
And, one thing the GOP forgets, Pat Buchanan was the one who excommunicated David Duke from the Republican Party.
Now is exactly the time for conservatives to be working to eliminate the totally unacceptable posers before the primaries start.
Conservative activists and GOP activists are not the people waiting to pick up a newspaper in 2011 and learn who the competitors are to lead the conservative movement, we are the ones that are trying to shape the field and one very obvious way to do that is to identify and discard a few characters that are simply too far left to even be involved in the process at all.
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