Posted on 03/21/2012 8:42:55 AM PDT by Fred
Think Progress flags an amazing exchange on CNN, in which Eric Fehrnstrom, a top adviser to Mitt Romney, seems to confirm that the conservative positions Romney has been forced to take during the primary won’t be a big deal because he can simply erase them once he becomes the GOP nominee:
HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.
There you have it. Dems, predictably, are pouncing on the remark, arguing that it validates their message that Romney has no core and will say or do anything to get elected.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Since when is socialized health care, pushing the homosexual agenda and being hostile to the 2nd Amendment considered the middle?
asked you a question , that’s it.
Yep. ‘moderate’voters might just as well pick Obama again.
I’m not staying home on election day (well, I will, but that’s because I will vote absentee). I’ll be voting GOP for almost every other office on the ballot. I’ll just lodge my protest against Romney. But for Senate here in VA, I’ll vote George Allen for Senate, I’ll probably vote for whoever the GOP Congressional nominee is, etc.
Furthermore, I wasn’t saying Romney is worse than Obama. Indeed, I think he is better. However, “better” is a relative term: He’s better than Obama because he will drive us off the cliff closer to the speed limit. Either way, they’re both reckless drivers heading towards a cliff. For that reason, I cannot vote for either in good conscious, and I will not go against my conscious.
I did. The quote is verbatim.
And? That Romney is allowing this creep to say what he did is evidence that he's already tacking left for the general election. Hence, he's "declaring victory" in the nomination process.
The Government Party, had to bribe the Undocumented from the very beginning, it’s the way they’ve had to operate with him.
They can’t bribe anymore without they themselves going down with everyone else, who’s savings have been plundered by 15+ trillion pensions and paychecks.
The Government Party, wants to halt price inflation ON THE BACKS of the productive and those with savings (.0001% interest rates), while they themselves stay out of the sewer, FEELING nothing.
It’s about time they take a dip too into the muddy channel water, to FEEL what it’s like. Otherwise, Government persecution will continue.
For the last 20 years...
Newt Gingrich comes out carrying an etch-a-sketch at the start of his LA speech!!!
https://twitter.com/#!/EliciaDover/status/182535383383420929/photo/1
Need any more evidence that Romney and the GOPe want to lose this one?
It’s a loser strategy for someone who is already alienating his partys own base.
Dern, the link won’t work if you don’t get her tweets! I will try to copy it and paste it.
The problem is that one is totally correct
The way I see it is we are finished by either of them. I just think the imposter will mess it up worse than the 'principled' one. At lease with the 'principled' disaster we can anticipate somewhat as to the method and prepare, with the imposter we never know what will be happening.
At the least the Democratic Party is now toast and the Republican Party is burnt toast.
A few points seem to be worth making:
First, Eric Fehrnstrom is not Mitt Romney.
Second, the WaPo writer is looking for a way to damage Romney (compare the headline to the actual quote).
Third, of course Romney will emphasize his more conservative positions in the primary season and his more moderate positions during the general election. What is wrong with that? Almost everyone has opinions and positions that range across a substantial portion of the Conservative-to-Moderate-to-Liberal spectrum. I know that I am rather moderate (some might say liberal) in my attitude toward regulation of financial institutions, but I am very conservative generally with respect to the size and cost of government. If I were running for office, I certainly might emphasize the latter in a primary race and the former in a general election. Again, what’s wrong with that? Who wants a nominee that will not try to win, as long as he remains honest in trying to win?
It's not that we would rather have Obama, but running or electing a moderate perpetuates the mindset that both parties are close to the same. To the casual voter, and to many who follow politics, Republicans are conservative. So moderate and liberal republicans ingrain the notion that there is no real difference between liberals and conservatives - the liberals just give the voters more free stuff than the conservatives.
Only thru a stark contrast can we show that conservatism is different. Holding our noses and pulling the lever for Romney or other moderates at best only slows the death of this once great country. Telling me to wait for next time is what they did last time with McCain - how did that work out?
Yes, four more years of Obama will hurt. But 4 years of Romney will also hurt, just not as much. But it will continue the decline on just a slightly shallower slope. I know people who are convinced that conservatism doesn't work because they think moderate Republications represent conservative ideology.
“Absolutely, Reagan did exactly this......
There is no way to win an election in this country on a divisive, fringe platform, to either side. No way, no how.
It is a political reality. Even Obama was sold as a moderate, Washington outsider who promised to make changes that would favor both sides. After Obama was elected, he went so far to the Left, so fast, that not even the Left fully believes it.”
Moderates are socialists of one stripe or another. Should we just resign ourselves to socialism. We think alike often senor freep, but we part ways on this :)
“Absolutely, Reagan did exactly this......
There is no way to win an election in this country on a divisive, fringe platform, to either side. No way, no how.
It is a political reality. Even Obama was sold as a moderate, Washington outsider who promised to make changes that would favor both sides. After Obama was elected, he went so far to the Left, so fast, that not even the Left fully believes it.”
Moderates are socialists of one stripe or another. Should we just resign ourselves to socialism. We think alike often senor freep, but we part ways on this :)
Holy double post Batman!
Romney is the Republican/White/Mormon Obama.
We know who and what Obama is about...he makes that clear. Romney is a moving frontman for the organization he calls a church with leadership who he not only is accountable to but will be calling the shots. Which as history has proven will change the game plans according to what they stand to gain by doing so. You will not see them nor know what their next move is til after the fact...and in part is determined to put the USA under International Control as the Gloablist position it.
Romney is no different than Obama....except he will hide behind the mask of what he's really up to ....you cannot fight what you cannot see. Therefore As much distain there is for Obama at least we can load congress and stop him as much as possible.
Anyone who believes all this so-called conservative pablum Romney has been spouting is seriously sick.
Romey is a moderate/liberal. PERIOD!!! Always has been, always will be. Never forget it. I don’t care what he says now. Hell, he’d say anything to get the nomination.
Hell, he did it in '76 when he named Pennsylvania Senator & Rockefeller RINO Dick Schweiker as VP candidate, and cost himself the nom.
Duh.
And if he wins the WH he’ll erase his “moderate” positions and go full-blown progressive on us.
A very good point to those who lecture on the woes that will beset the nation if we end up with Obama for another 4 years. Those are probably all true prophecies.
However, if our nation is truly at such a critical point; now is not the time to select a candidate that will not be significantly different? The point of the election is to save the country, not simply defeat Obama. I do not need to stress the many attacks on liberty contained in Obama care, nor the dangers of our skyrocketing federal debt. We have also seen the danger of liberal judges on the Supreme Court.
The question that plagues my conscience is this: Is Mitt Romney the man that can change these things and bring back a free prosperous America? Do his action, speaking far louder than campaign words of admitted dubious quality, really justify answering yes? And if you answer no; is the country doomed either way.
I find the answer to be no, as such, I do not know if I can vote for the man and still have a clean enough conscience to be able to look myself in the mirror on Wednesday morning.
Even if he fires his advisor for saying this, that doesn’t make it any less truthful. All indicators point towards Romney abandoning what he has said he will do.
And why the vetting of Obama is so critical this time around. Romney’s no America hating Marxist.
You know what is really disgusting is no one wants Romney as the nominee. I mean real republicans out in the heartland of America. People that post on this board see right through this liberal. Lord, his liberal record is an open book. Romney is living proof that money can buy a nomination. He has more money to cut down the opposition. No core values whatsover. Money is the name of the game. Sad, but true. Willard’s money will not help him when the liberals give Chairman Obama a billion of more to cut this RINO to shreds. Like Obama before him, Joe the Bartender is more qualified to be president. Romney is nothing but a rich liberal egomaniac and why he’s still in the republican party is anyone’s guess. He will lose the race to a failed president in a landslide. Here we go again. McCain redux.
Yes, the source is the WashPo. Not CNN. The advisor wants to pander to the Dems and Dem leaning Independents. WashPo wants to soften the Repub base. Agitprop.
FUMR!! GOP primary voters = suckers!!
Duh. Romney hasn’t taken any conservative positions that he will need to erase.
FUMR!! NO ROMNEY!!
My sister said Rick & Newt are handing out etch-a-sketches at their events.
Mitt is counting on people throwing away their principles to vote for him. I won’t do it, ever, and I cannot believe how many stupid people are falling for his lies.
Newt Gingrich Reacts To Romney Adviser Etch-a-Sketch Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhmzzfU8G4
“There is no major conservative party left in the USA.”
Look, I organized one of the first Tea Party events in my state before most people had even heard the name Tea Party. It was exhilarating, positive and promising to think that the no-nothings would finally get the message. They haven’t, thanks in great part to the lib media who lives on the backs of the uninformed.
As sad as it is, there are more of them than us. To think that MOST voters in this country are right of center is false. They aren’t. And to think that most indys could be, is another pipe dream. Not enough to swing it, not yet anyway.
No kidding his whole family is gonna vote for 0m0slem0, because he's such a swell guy.
Tell us how much you hate poor people unless you're firing them Mitt!
He's ANOTHER DNC FLOP horse! Like McLame, and Awful Dull.
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