O RLY, Myth Romney???
Posted on 11/04/2009 10:32:39 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) on Wednesday promoted a round of Republican victories in last night's elections in a letter to supporters.
The 2012 presidential hopeful plugged the triumphs of Republican gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell (Va.) and Chris Christie (N.J.), emphasizing that his political action committee's endorsement and campaign work for the two candidates.
"It's exhilarating to wake up to headlines of conservative victories in the battleground elections in Virginia and New Jersey," Romney wrote. "The American people have sent a very strong message to the liberals in Washington, DC that big government is not the answer, and that conservatism is still alive and well."
Romney then requested supporters donate to his PAC.
"We should be proud of what we have accomplished together; but this is no time to rest on our laurels," he wrote. "We must begin building upon these victories today to ensure that we have the resources we need to take back the Congress in 2010."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
O RLY, Myth Romney???
Romney is a fraud.
He might be a fraud but he did know when to keep his nose out of a losing election. He might have been pretty smart to stay miles away from that stinker in NY-23.
Romney nomination in ‘12 = 0bama blowout win.
How’s that Romney-Care workin out for you Mitty?
So, he doesn’t endorse any one in NY-23, you guys criticize. He does give money to the Conservative candidate, but he’s just covering his bases. His PAC contributes to the Conservatives in NJ and VA and he campaigns for those candidates personally but that isn’t good enough either. Par for the course with you people. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. Yeah, there’s fraud here alright.
The big loser was Gingrich. He supported a liberal that ultimately supported the democrat. He is toast.
He’s a poser.
Romney is a staunch conservative when he thinks that conservatism is in his personal interest. When he wants to get elected in liberal Massachusetts, he’s pro-abortion and sets up a government health care system.
You’re right that he was with the conservatives in Virginia and New Jersey, but that was easy, because what he did there was also in his self-interest. Everything he did in NY-23 can be explained the same way.
When he takes a stand on principle that hurts or even endangers him politically, get back to me.
Did he really? lol. Ok he is a fraud. I knew that but again giving benefit of the doubt...how gulible I am...
There is nothing he can ever do that will satisfy his detractors here. Ever. Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Michael Savage all think he’s Conservative enough but no, here at FR, he’s a phony.
Well, it certainly wasn’t Bush’s fault!
Romney is that smarmy goodie two-shoes in High School who runs for Student Body President on the “I’m On Your Side” platform.
(BARF!)
RomneyCare ~ 0bummerCare.
No thanks, Mitt. We’ll stick with non-Socialists.
Romney is a smug dud. I cannot put my finger on it, but he seems like a Johnny-come-lately as far as his conservative credentials. His chorus of disingenuous “me too” during the primary really torqued me, as he wanted to paint himself as a conservative stalwart.
Plus, it was sad to see McCain pick up failed Romney campaign rejects, only to have them subvert McCain and turn sour grapes on Palin during the election. Despicable and unforgivable.
He did nothing of the sort. Craven coward Mitt Romney failed to take a stand when it mattered.
Win or Lose, the principled thing to do would have been to support the conservative who was running.
Decent human beings do the right thing whether its popular or not, and whether there is an immediate "win" or not.
Romney, lacking principles and decency, said and did nothing. He should be deeply ashamed of himself, but I'm sure he isn't. He has no shame.
That is because he only adopted that stance at almost age 60 so that he could run for President, he is a life long liberal that actually left the Republican party in the 80s to protest President Reagan's conservatism, he didn't become a Republican again until he wanted to run for office in 1993, that was also the year that he quit doing fund raising for and making donations to only democrat candidates.
Mitt Romney: “I’m not a partisan politician,” he said in an interview with The Post that fall. “My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”
Scozzafava/Romney 2012
It has been a very long time since I have heard some of those people say anything of note about Mitt Romney, about a year and a half at least.
I have listened to Rush Limbaugh just this week for instance talking up Sarah Palin for two days running though.
Scozzafava/Romney 2012
Although true that Romney is a superior extraordinary phony,
Romney could have 1) helped Gov.Palin instead of attacking her during Election2008
Romney could have 2) helped Gov.Palin instead of attacking her this year
Romney could have 3) helped other conservative Republicans in MA
Romney could have 4) helped other conservative Republicans like Hoffman before the week of the election.
Romney could have exposed the BIGdig coverup,
and might have not used his executive authority to destroy the Mass. Constitution,
and he might have not used his executive authority to impose RomneyCARE.
But then ... all those socialist impositions without a vote
are Bishop Romney, aren't they?
This from the Haddonfield Sun, 5/28/09:
Former Massachusetts governor and a candidate for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination Mitt Romney officially endorsed Chris Christie for the Republican nomination in the 2009 Governor’s race. The pair spoke on the steps of Haddonfield Borough Hall May 28. (This was during the primaries.)
And this...
"New York Firm Pays $50,000 for a Romney; Christie Sale of Old Masters Nets $676,660" New York Times, May 21, 2009. Link.
And this...
"Romney Endorses Bob McDonnell for Virginia Governor, Bill Bolling for Lieutenant Governor", Bill Bolling for Lt. Governor website, May 28, 2009. Source.
And this...
"Gingrich, Jindal and Romney Boost McDonnell", RedState.com, Sept. 28, 2009. Source
As for your charges about Romney's behavior towards Sarah Palin, none of the alleged attacks you claim came from him actually came from him and you know it. According to you, if someone who once walked past Mitt Romney's house 15 years ago, suggests that Governor Palin may or may not have a nice singing voice, you would count that as a viscious, personal attack from Mitt Romney himself. So, given your baseless and demonstrably false accusations, you are not exactly a credible source.
Snort!
He was good enough compared to McCain. But he is still a liberal phony.
"Mitt Romney attending Senate fundraiser for Brown", Boston Herald, Oct. 30, 2009. Source.
And I know you knew about this article because you posted on the thread this story was posted in. Link to thread.
See posts 10 and 23.
Your “Conservative” idol does...
So, Diogenesis just got caught in a lie about Mitt Romney not supporting any Conservative candidates and all you can manage is to try and change the subject? Pathetic.
Why don't you connect the "dots" for us?
"Americans more interested in Rice memoir than Bush's, Palin's coming books"
SSDD
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?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Stop avoiding the issue. You stated Mitt Romney didn’t campaign or support any Conservatives in any races until the last couple of weeks of the campaign. You were wrong. Admit it.
Change what subject?
I am responding to what you posted, not what Diogenesis posted.
Trying to muddy the waters, inject confusion and makes leaps of unfounded logic...
Now that is what is pathetic.
And expected...
And SOP...
When did Limbaugh and Levin say Romney is a conservative? Especially with Romneycare in Mass.
Foxtrot Uniform Willard...
There was a time when I would have given him the benefit of doubt that a change of heart, a sudden grasp of conservative principle, was genuine -- no more. He could go out and say word for word all the things I want to hear, but NOW, I would trust him about as much as Clinton or Obama or Joe Isuzu.
I was inclined to favor him in the early primaries, but the more I learned about all of what he is, instead of the abundant gratuitous music-to-conservatives'-ears empty platitudes that dominate his speeches, the more I realized that he tells people what they want to hear, but his actions CONSISTENTLY fail to match his words. His actions PROVE that conservative principle sails far over his head; he doesn't get it at all. Rush knows this; I recall how during primary debates', Rush played soundbites of Romney and warned, "Folks, this is not conservatism."
And dear, you HUGELY MISREPRESENT Rush and Levin's take on Romney (I don't know about the others because I don't listen to them). NOTHING, nada, zip, zero, zilch, of anything I've ever heard or read by Levin or Limbaugh indicate anything but decidedly lukewarm reception of Romney by Limbaugh and Levin. The only time I have EVER heard Limbaugh praise Romney with any genuine warmth was for his Religion in America speech -- and at that time, Rush said repeatedly that he was NOT endorsing Romney, and in that segment where he praised Romney, he TOTALLY AVOIDED praising Romney's politics; he only praised Romney's eloquence in discussing the relevance of religion in America.
STOP misrepresenting Rush and Levin, please.
In other words, buying political favor and power is okay by you. Romney’s money is as good as anyone else’s, it’s true — but Romney’s POLITICS stink. Romney is BAD NEWS for the GOP and for the Republic. Romney is a big-government moderate who pretends that he’s not. Eddie Haskell ain’t got nothin’ on Mitt Romney.
“How’s that Romney-Care workin out for you Mitty?”
At least he did not take away your constitutional rights, like that Fred “CFR” Thompson, from the Senate Centrist Coalition (where all true conservatives naturally go to advance “bipartispan legislation”).
“Romney nomination in ‘12 = 0bama blowout win.”
Depends. Do you really believe that things will be BETTER by 2012?
Here’s the real problem w/Romney.
Romney says 0bama spends too much.
0bama says Romneycare.
Romney says 0bamacare is/will be a disaster.
0bama says Romneycare.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
By the time I came here to answer your post to me, I found half a dozen others had already answered. Forgive me for piling on, but I want to put in my two cents.
You write, “There is nothing he can ever do that will satisfy his detractors here.” You say that as if it’s a bad thing.
In Massachusetts, he didn’t run as a conservative and he didn’t govern as a conservative. You imply that, as long as he now makes appropriately conservative noises, his past conduct should be completely overlooked.
If you’re willing to accept such expedient conversions at face value, then you’ll be a sucker for every opportunist who comes down the pike.
Trust is something that, once lost, is not easily regained. It may be a hardship to Romney if he’s genuinely changed his mind, but life is tough sometimes.
I agree with you, but you didn’t really answer my question.
I guess my answer is that the economic situation would matter less in a Romney/0bama race than if 0bama had another GOP opponent b/c Romney would not be able to present himself as something radically different than 0bama.
Ok, I understand your position, thank you.
Right. Romney (and Snowe, McCain, Specter, Chafee and Schwarzeneggar) was just a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership, funded by George Soros.
I don't know where to begin with that one.
I could point out that is one strike against the many Romney has.
I could point out the various times Thompson explained his position on that one issue alone.
I could point out how he now thinks the idea was a mistake so now there is not even that in Mitt's pathetic little favor.
But I won't.
The stupid desperation of Romeybot Newbie requires no explanation, especially when it is one who tries to take on Thompson or any other true conservative here on FR.
Such should be left alone if for not other reason then it has massive entertainment value for us.
So please continue...
Never mind the reply I made, though it is there for others.
You're going to be fun if Mitt is stupid enough to run again...
My point exactly. I provide proof that much of what has been stated about Romney is a lie and you still come back with “it doesn’t matter, we have our opinion and we’re sticking to it.”
Romney lost in my mind too!
Here's a quote from Mark Levin in his article "Rally for Romney" in NRO, 1/31/08: "The only one left standing who can honestly be said to share most of our conservative principles is Mitt Romney."
It is you who are misrepresenting Mr. Levin. He, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage and Ann Coulter all told their audiences to go out and vote for Mitt Romney. I can provide those quotes as well.
"I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that's Romney," the talk radio host added."
And from the same article:
"I think the one candidate of the three still out there on our side that matter (and, actually, it's just two, because Huckabee doesn't, in terms of a chance to win) is saying who more closely embodies all three legs of this conservative stool, you'd have to say that it's Mitt Romney. There's actually no choice in the matter. It certainly isn't Senator McCain."
So, I can back up my claims with quotes and specific referrences. How about you?
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