Posted on 03/17/2011 5:40:47 PM PDT by BfloGuy
I’m getting very disgusted with a whole bunch of so called republicans. They are absolutely useless, may as well be democrats.
Absolutely.
VERY disappointing.
The progs know how easy it is to roll conservatives. They do it on every issue and every candidate, every election.
When conservatives resist being played, the next tactic is always to single out one or more conservatives and broadcast anything they ever said or did that isn’t pure conservatism. They use the word hypocrite, the conservatives join in and another donkey is elected, another link of the chain of slavery is forged and the progs just keep on, keeping on.
If a conservative cannot be rolled or painted as a hypocrite, then they are attacked as crazy, extremist and made a laughing stock. This is also successful, because it removes the independents from supporting that candidate and their issues.
I cannot remember one single conservative that hasn’t been the object of this strategy. It has worked so well, for so long that you just come to expect it.
It was a little more than that...
From here on out I refer to him as DeMinted.
Palin / Bachmann 2012
Just as I said, you fools are being taken for a ride. Your post is a link from 2007, that would be 4 years ago. DeMint no longer supports Romney.
Gee, I wonder why, especially with that last post...
No, you're just burying your head in the sand. DeMint has been in Romney's pocket for a long time, and has done a good job of hiding it since early 2009, until he slipped up this morning.
Now the cat is out of the bag.
Sigh. Get all the facts first:
“DeMint won’t back Romney without repudiation of Mass. health law”
By Michael O’Brien - 03/17/11 02:13 PM ET
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) “would never consider” endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president again in 2012 unless Romney repudiates the health reforms he sought as governor, a source close to DeMint said Thursday.
A source close to the conservative icon emphasized that, despite comments to The Hill indicating that Romney shouldn’t shoulder all the political blame for the Massachusetts healthcare plan, DeMint wouldn’t endorse Romney again unless he admits the plan was mistaken.
“It’s obvious Jim was just trying to be nice to the guy he backed over McCain, as many conservatives did in 2008,” the source said. “But he would never consider backing Romney again unless he admits that his Massachusetts healthcare plan was a colossal mistake.”
DeMint told The Hill that he hadn’t decided who he would endorse in the 2012 Republican presidential primary and said that Romney wasn’t entirely to blame for the elements of the Massachusetts healthcare plan that conservatives now deplore.
DeMint said:
One of the reasons I endorsed Romney is his attempts to make private health insurance available at affordable prices. He set the goal that all folks in Massachusetts would have affordable health insurance. By the time it got through the Democratic state legislature, it had all these mandates on it, requirements about what kind of policies would be bought — the same thing that happened up here — instead of getting people insured, it was a government takeover. So I applaud the goal — my goal is to have every American with a private health insurance plan that they can keep throughout their lives. And so, I still admire him for taking on the task, but I think it’s important to recognize that that’s not where we want our healthcare to go. States can compete with different plans, but we shouldn’t have anything like what they did in Massachusetts at the federal level.
Romney’s faced considerable scrutiny from some conservatives and other Republican presidential candidates for his plan, which bears many resemblances to the healthcare plan President Obama signed into law a year ago. It contains an individual mandate to purchase insurance.
Other Republicans on Capitol Hill who backed Romney in 2008 have afforded him a great deal of leeway over the plan, arguing that it is hardly a death blow to Romney’s presidential aspirations.
Amen to your post and we have a load of fools on FR these last few years. These people will never have a candidate 100% perfect, not even Reagan was perfect. My God it is these fools that will hand us Obama for another four years.
>”Not entirely different than the other RINO senator from SC.”<
Well, as a South Carolinian who has observed them, I have to agree that they are both featherless bipeds. But beyond that I see them as quite different (as many past stories have indicated). It’s true that Demint endorsed Romney in 2008 — when the Republican field wasn’t exactly stellar — trying to put some of the blame for the defects of the Massachusetts bill on the Democrats, even though Romney did ultimately sign it.
Demint has made his attitude towards that bill clear, though: “I think it’s important to recognize that that’s not where we want our healthcare to go. States can compete with different plans, but we shouldn’t have anything like what they did in Massachusetts at the federal level.” http://tinyurl.com/4je2otg
“Romney signed the final bill.”
Romney also gave it an ‘A’ Grade well after it was signed into law.
I can support that 100%.
Although I wish that Bachmann was Speaker of the House right now. We really need to get rid of Crier of the House *Boner* in a bad way.
I see you beat me to that quotation by one minute. :-)
It bears repeating, though — and emphasizing.
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