Posted on 11/02/2011 7:12:23 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Romney jurist picks not tilted to GOP
Independents, Democrats get call
In all, Romney nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters, and 14 registered Democrats to be judges or clerk magistrates.
And I'd bet that of those republicans, at least some of them were liberal republicans like David Souter.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney_jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/
Please don’t give me another John McCain moment!!!!!
I’ve thought since 2008 that no one can be a governor of a liberal state like Massachusetts and a GOP candidate for President in the same lifetime.
Things like this are why.
Romney Sucks.
The fix is in for Obama. Can’t believe the GOP got “McCained” again.
(Actually, I can easily believe it. It’s just that the stakes are so high and the evil of Obama is now a known commodity to all but the thoroughly brain-dead)
Hey, wasn’t Romney the “wacky” candidate in 2008? This is how MSM picks our candidates (VANITY)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2801326/posts
"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
"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
Rule of thumb: RINOs will always support liberal Democrats before they will support conservative Republicans. They are so strongly opposed to conservatism that even with issues they favor, they will only give tepid support if there is strong support by conservatives, and may even undermine the issue to weaken it and make it ineffective to deny conservatives a decisive win.
RINOs will support each other in Republican party leadership positions, in an effort to exclude conservatives, and they cultivate many Beltway hired-gun consultants (like Karl Rove) to work very hard against conservatives if at all possible.
In effect, they imagine themselves as a third, “centrist” (liberal) party, but a secret one within the Republican party. Thus they owe zero loyalty to the Republican rank and file.
I understand the vitriol unleashed on Romney here—but one has to consider whether his appointments had to be approved by an overwhelmingly Massachusetts legislature/Senate.
Were his appointments subject to legislative approval?
How many of Romney’s picks voted to legalize homosexual “marriage”?
He is a democrat!
>> Hey, wasn’t Romney the “wacky” candidate in 2008? This is how MSM picks our candidates >>
Yes, the pundits did say he was too conservative (on fiscal, economic and business regulatory issues) to be elected in 08. This included the folks like Dick Morris and Frank Luntz and Charles Krauthammer and so on back in the 07-08 primary season.
Ironic ain’t it.
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