Posted on 07/14/2012 9:24:58 PM PDT by shoedog
I have to wonder if all the Romney haters on this site were the same people who ran home to mom when they lost at games as kids. I did not vote for Romney in the primaries. If you asked anyone that knows me, they would say I am right of Reagan. What I don't understand is all of you that love this country,which I truly believe you do, that are willing to not vote for Romney and potentially allow this country to fail by re-electing Obama!, how does that make sense?
I have, and I would say that Romney managed to slip a few good conservatives past the Democrat congress in Mass.
I’m still with you hon ;)
0 = sotomayer & kagan. Romney Picks Pro-Life Conservatives as Top Judicial Advisors [Judge Bork]
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"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
I am deeply saddened.
“If you are a pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty, small government conservative you would see that he is most definitely as bad as Obama. What part of Romney’s godless liberal progessivism, abortionism, homosexualism, statism, gun grabbing, big government socialism is less evil than Obama’s?”
Post of the year! I’ve been trying to make this EXACT point to so many others, but to no avail! Perfectly stated! Thank you!
Did you just say Willard was your candidate all along?
You call yourself a conservative?
On the Republican side of the ticket there is no longer an option to to the RINO Mittens.
However, since this is a conservative site, why are you here?
Your better option may be to go chase those undecided independents. Now both of you have what the Left wing media says you desire, a left wing option in both parties.
Unfortunately, the 2012 POTUS election is about strategery. It is to choose incremental gain rather than an 'all or nothing' loss. I hate that Romney won the primary and fought against it. But compared to the communist usurper and occupier_in chief, even Romney is preferable. Big time.
Supreme Court Justices and the repeal of 0bamacare (without the fear of a veto pen) are just two of the HUGH differences.
Hey Artcore, don’t you find it hard to breathe with your head up your @$$ all the time?
Your post is a vanity. Post your ego some place else.
A Mass. conservative (see also Bill Weld, Scott Brown)—about as far right as we’ll get. Unenrolled but will not vote for The One or for the likes of Deval Patrick or John Tierney. In MA anyone who isn’t Commie is considered a far right Rethuglican Nazi (...by the left). Compared to the pols we usually get,
Romney, Brown et al are the only alternative. Remember, I’m
from Massachusetts. I’m grasping at straws. Also I felt he has the best chance of beating Obama. I didn’t want to watch coverage of Election Night and seeing Santorum or Gingrich
lose in a landslide.
Mitt at least has a chance and he’s no Obama. A businessman, not a communist—er, community—activist.
That's right. I, for example, know I'll survive no matter who wins.
Another difference is that some of us will not vote for a liberal.
Another ABO who wants to have their cake and eat it too.
You people are really good at telling us what our vote 'means'. You say my third party vote isn't what it is -- you tell me it's a vote for 0bama rather than a vote for conservatism -- but you also say your vote is what it isn't. You say it's a vote against Obama, but that's not what your ballot says.
Be honest. It's a vote for Mitt Romney. Anything else is salving your conscience. Because you know you hate what you're doing.
After over a hundred posts, yours says it best without uttering a word.
“Romneybot!”
“Obamabot!”
This is going to hell in a hand basket.
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Yes it is, but on the bright side your moniker is cool.
If you have somehow come to believe that voting for Mitt Romney will be the "most important" political act of your lifetime, then maybe the time has come for you to either elevate your political objectives or just plain give up on politics.
If you believe that your support of RomneyCARE,
death panels, Romney fascism against the Mass. Constitution,
and the attacks on Gov. Palin, make YOU a ‘conservative’
then perhaps you fell in the Harbor with Bill Weld, too.
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