not sure if he'd want to equate himself with Rockefeller but he's definitely a RINO
Posted on 06/14/2011 8:14:54 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
"Despite my affiliation with the Republican Party, I don't think of myself as highly partisan." -- Mitt Romney in his book No Apology
And there it was again.
Front and center in last night's CNN New Hampshire debate with Republican presidential candidates, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney twice -- not once but twice -- illustrated his problem as a presidential candidate and potential Republican president in the post-Reagan era.
Midway into the debate Romney answered a question on how to deal with the issue of raising the debt limit by saying that as president he would concentrate on "reining in the excesses of government." And when asked about picking a vice president Romney came back to the point; he would "restrain the growth of government."
It's not as if no one is noticing The Problem with Mitt Romney.
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Which raises the obvious question with the obvious answer.
Why in the world would Mitt Romney ever campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in a style and substance re-emphasized last night in New Hampshire -- in such a fashion as to send signals that he is bidding fair to be the 21st century successor to Nelson Rockefeller, the "Dark Lord" of Republican presidential politics? The man who became the conservative equivalent of "He Who Shall Not Be Named" or "You Know Who"?
The obvious answer is: because that's exactly who Mitt Romney really is.
Rockefeller Republicanism is Mitt Romney's political core, his every political instinct, and it expresses itself and will continue to express itself as Romney moves through this campaign. Asking him to stop is like demanding the Pope not sound so, well, Catholic.
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I was wearing a big Barry Goldwater campaign button and carrying a handmade AuH20 Campaign sign.
He smiled and shook my hand. He didn't shoot me or anything.
I f*rt in his general direction.
RINOmney can shove his liberalism up his Obama.
When the one reads the pages of “The Making of the President 1968” by Theodore White, the famous political journalist chronicles the rise and fall of Mitt’s father Governor George Romney.
Romney came out of the 1966 midterms as the front runner for 1968. The polling showed he would beat incumbent Lyndon Johnson.
Romney was supported for president by a man who had tarnished his chances for the job with a divorce and remarriage to a younger woman in the early 60’s.
That man was none other than Nelson Rockefeller who had, according to White, gone so far as to loan Romney his foreign policy advisor, Dr. Henry Kissinger.
In late 1967 George Romney sank his presidential chances by stating in a television interview that he had been “brainwashed” by US officials when he visited Vietnam.
LOL - VERY well phrased...
If I were forced to make a prediction, I would predict that Romney gets the nomination and Obama wins the election by winning in ohio by approx. 3%.
So now we have his son, the Amazing Plastic Man, looking for all the world like John Edwards and Mister Blackwell had a baby and dressed him in pinstripes and mousse.
Sad thing is that if he becomes the candidate, I will hold my nose and vote for him but on too many levels he is as bad as Ubama.
He’s an amazingly flaccid candidate.
A politican who simply blows with the wind is someone with no set principles.
The impression Mitt Romney gives is of a glib, fashionably blow-dried guy in an expensive suit who’ll do and/or say pretty much anything to get elected.
In other words, a professional pol, who will say one thing to get elected and then do whatever popularity demands.
Not exactly my cup of tea...
Great example of the media contorting an honest statement, hyperbole of course, but honest, against a republican.. Romney was trying to find facts about Viet Nam and the Johnson government lied to him. What he saw on the ground did not jibe with what he was told. Does any of this ring a bell? Still George Romney is treated like he was a shock therapy patient.
He’s sort of “our” Al Gore. (almost puked typing that) He’s the son of a fairly prominant politician of yesteryear who feels it is “his time”. Like he paid his dues in the political machine and now it’s his turn by nothing more virtuous than his family connections and unsaid political tradition. Disgusting, but there it is.
I don’t trust him. I think that were he to win, he would be a modern day Hoover.
My Manhattanite ex wife got a real hoot over the way Nelson went out...”Who would’ve thought he’d die in the saddle?” she used to say.
Well, he's probably smarter than Algore.
His only message is “This President is a failure”.
Yeah, Yeah, Okay, we get it.
What is your vision again?
Weiner?
That was standard treatment for candidates back then. Recall Thomas Eagleton and Edmund Muskie, and even more recently Patsy Schroeder.
Any public sign of mental weakness was a campaign killer.
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