WELL DONE, MITT! As Governor Of Mass, Romney Banned The Assault Weapon Used In The Colorado Massacre

Business Insider ^ | Jul. 23, 2012, 10:26 AM | Henry Blodget

[SoConPubbie]

In 2004, as Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney banned the sale of assault weapons like the one used to spray 50-60 bullets a minute in the Colorado massacre.

On FOX News, Romney explained his position as follows:

"I believe the people should have the right to bear arms, but I don’t believe that we have to have assault weapons as part of our personal arsenal."

That seems like a perfectly reasonable position, no?

(Seriously: Do we really need to be able to buy and own these things? Is that really in the best interests of our society? Really?)

Unfortunately, in the intervening years, Romney has flip-flopped and now supports the sale of assault weapons like the one used in the Colorado massacre.

But the families of those who were shot and killed in the theater can presumably take some comfort from the fact that Romney was against these guns before he was for them.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-bans-assault-weapons-2012-7#ixzz223KrTavh

[driftdiver]

So Obama supports the 2nd amendment?

[SoConPubbie]

Way to go while your remembering the past dont forget Ross Perot

Bad comparison, George H. Bush is ten times better than Mitt Romney is. GHB was just a moderate. Mitt Romney is a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal:

http://oi43.tinypic.com/2namx6p.jpg

[SoConPubbie]

Way to go while your remembering the past dont forget Ross Perot

Bad comparison, George H. Bush is ten times better than Mitt Romney is. GHB was just a moderate. Mitt Romney is a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal:

[chris37]

Ok, great.

I’ll vote for Obama then.

Problem solved.

[Jim Robinson]

Obviously, we’re going have to fight both parties.

[Jim Robinson]

Don’t be an idiot.

[SoConPubbie]

On another subject. Have you ever heard Rush say that Mitt told him personally he does not intend to go down as failing this country. Historically even with only one term he wants to gut the government at every level except military and where deemed constitutional.

Yes and Mitt Romney's record supports this statement how?

And you believe the words of the man who stated in January 2012 at CPAC:

1. "I was a severely conservative Governer of MA"
2. "I was always Pro-Life"

[Tau Food]

I dont give a crap what Romney would do,

I do.

If you're looking for a solid alternative to Romney, you might want to check out Tom Hoefling.

[Pontiac]

I am not sure what exactly that means but I will assume that it is an unpleasant epithet.

I will ask you again as others have to provide an achievable alternative to supporting Romney that does not sacrifice this country to four more years of the so called leadership of BHO.

With four more years of BHO we have embedded socialized health care, a lingering recession or worse, non-existent border control and defacto one man rule government.

As with every election post Reagan we have the choice of the lesser of two evils. I will reluctantly choose Romney because he is the lesser evil and there is no viable third choice.

[smokingfrog]

assault weapons were never banned

[SoConPubbie]

So Obama supports the 2nd amendment?

You're problem as a Mitt Romney supporter, is that they are both basically stating the same thing on the 2nd Amendment.

They both believe that so-called "Assault Weapons" have no place in the hands of citizens.

They both basically have stated that guns are just for hunting and self-defense with no mention of the real purpose of the 2nd Amendment, to strike fear in the hearts and minds of those in Government in order to remind them that the people are in charge and can take back their government, by force, if necessary.

[ctdonath2]

Yes, we know what he is.
Alas, he’s the best we’ve got.

[SoConPubbie]

assault weapons were never banned

From the 2008 Opposition Research report prepared by the McCain Campaign.

GUN CONTROL

- In 1994 Senate race, Romney backed Brady bill and assault weapons ban, saying “I don’t line up with the NRA” and “that’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA.”

- Romney called Clinton crime bill “a big step forward.”

- As governor, Romney quadrupled gun licensing fees and vowed not to “chip away” at tough gun laws

- In 2004, Romney signed permanent state-level ban on assault weapons that was mirrored after federal assault weapons ban.

- In January 2006, Romney said he owned a gun – then two days later admitted he did not and the gun belonged to his son.

- Romney bragged about being member of the NRA but later revealed he didn’t join until August 2006, just before launching his presidential campaign.

- Romney recently said he’s “been a hunter pretty much all my life” but later admitted he hunted only twice in his life, later clarifying remarks by claiming he has hunted “small varmints … more than two times.”

- In 2006 press conference, Romney claimed he had been hunting “many times” after returning from quail hunt in Georgia.

[driftdiver]

“You’re problem as a Mitt Romney supporter,”

A faulty assumption on your part.

Obama has proven himself willing to turn this issue over to the UN and subordinate America to them. He has done everything he can to bypass Congress.

[mrsmel]

And Romney is hardly an anti-white racist. Hussein and his whole administration are permeated with it. There’s that even if if there were nothing else. He can’t play the race card to shut up the opposition, which has worked like a charm with the weak and spineless GOP. It’s Hussein’s silver bullet, all he (or one of his minions) has to do is yell “racist!” and they fold like a cheap suit. Romney won’t have that card, and it’s the only one that works so well.

[SoConPubbie]

A faulty assumption on your part.

ANd yet here you are making the case for Mitt Romney and ignoring his actual record; go figure.

[driftdiver]

The Tom Hoefling who has said he would use the US Military to enforce his personal interpretation of the law? that Tom??

[Pontiac]

You're not going to reclamin anything with Mitt Romney.

My plan for the future is in rebuilding the Republican Party in to a more conservative, liberty loving party from the ground up by supporting more conservative candidates at the state and local level.

Some of these candidates will go on to become national candidates.

We also have to attack on other fronts such as education. It will not be quick and it will not be easy. As I said before we did not get here over night and I doubt I will see victory in my life time but I am in this for the long haul.

[Tau Food]

I despise Romney as much as you do but I will support him for the sake of the long road ahead. I despised McCain and I worked for him because I see that this is but a small battle in a long war of ideas and ideals. We can not win the war if we are constantly at war with our selves.

You despised McCain, but like me and many conservatives, supported him. Karl Rove and company thereby learned (or thought he learned) that the GOP could always count on conservative support no matter who is nominated. Romney is our reward for supporting McCain.

If we support Romney in 2012, what will be our reward in 2016? Would you accept Maxine Waters if Rove can talk her into running as a Republican?

If you want an acceptable nominee in 2016, you need to reject this unacceptable nominee in 2012. Just say no.

[driftdiver]

“ANd yet here you are making the case for Mitt Romney and ignoring his actual record; go figure. “

No, I was asking about Obama, the other alternative for the office of President.

Personally I wish Cain was the GOP candidate.

[Tennessee Nana]

Bashing me because I wont vote for the immoral liberal trash, Willard, wont make me cowtow to you and the rest of the RomneyBot trolls...

You wanted him, you got him, now deal with it...

Im a Conservative...

Liberals dont agree with my tender system...

[SoConPubbie]

My plan for the future is in rebuilding the Republican Party in to a more conservative, liberty loving party from the ground up by supporting more conservative candidates at the state and local level.

I agree with your plan, however, you won't accomplish a thing towards your goals and plan with Romney at the head of the GOP.

The exact opposite will occur and I present the MA GOP as the prime example. Romney literally destroyed the MA GOP with his Progressive Liberal shanigans as Governor of MA.

[Jim Robinson]

Mass murder (infanticide) is not a lesser evil.

[montag813]

And I am sure that Mitt Romney boosters want everything and everyone banned that actually brings up the lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal record of Mitt Romney in any context whether left or right.

Oh shut up. Read my history, bub. Mittens was always my last choice. But now he is the ONLY choice with 99 days to go. Who is YOUR choice, the liberal assclown Gary Johnson? WTF is the point of posting Blodget's bilge, which he publishes solely to divide us and help Obama?

[SoConPubbie]

Alas, he’s the best we’ve got.

No, he's the best you've got.

I don't vote for lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberals.

[Jean S]

You need to update your profile page. It’s still stuck on McCain. Time to update to Romney.

[SoConPubbie]

Oh shut up. Read my history, bub. Mittens was always my last choice. But now he is the ONLY choice with 99 days to go. Who is YOUR choice, the liberal assclown Gary Johnson? WTF is the point of posting Blodget's bilge, which he publishes solely to divide us and help Obama?

I already posted my solution up-thread.

I'll either write in Governor Palin, or vote for Virgil Goode or Tom Hoefling.

I don't vote for lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberals whether they have a 'D' or 'R' next to their names.

It appears your standards are slipping.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[SoConPubbie]

You need to update your profile page. It’s still stuck on McCain. Time to update to Romney.

You're right, I need to, don't have the time.

[Graybeard58]

We have to bite the bullet and vote for this wishy washy moderate Republican

"Moderate Republican"? He's the most liberal candidate ever put forward by the Republican party, far, far from "moderate". While you may "bite the bullet" and vote for the far left liberal Romney, I don't care for the taste of that particular bullet. Not my caliber.

[t1b8zs]

Who is YOUR choice

Thats what I have been asking through this entire thread and all i see is what an ah romney is.
I have always been told if you dont have a soulution to a particular problem then STFU unless all you want to do is bitch

[SoConPubbie]

As with every election post Reagan we have the choice of the lesser of two evils. I will reluctantly choose Romney because he is the lesser evil and there is no viable third choice.

Please point to the relevant scriptures that support such a contention from a Christian perspective, especially when the choice is between a Crypto-Communist and a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal like Mitt Romney.

All I can find is the following from the Apostle Paul which, again from a Christian perspective, would seem to completely refute that approach:

Romans 3:4-5

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) 6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? 8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

[Tennessee Nana]

We have to bite the bullet and vote for this wishy washy moderate Republican
___________________________________________

WE dont have to do anything...

YOU can if you want to thats YOUR choice...

Im not going to lower my Biblical standards and vote for the immoral abortion pushing same sex marriage America hating piece of trash that is Willard Romney...

Choose YOU this day or Nov who YOU will vote for but for me and my Christian Conservative house, we will not be embracing evil...

We will continue to serve the LORD Jesus Christ and please Him...Joshua 24:15

God is not pleased with Willard Mitt Romney...

and it would not please God for me to compromise His line of standards and spit in His face...

[SoConPubbie]

So if I may provide my interpretation, Paul is saying that we should never do evil so that Good may come.

Voting for a man who implemented Gay Marriage unconstitutionally I might add and who implemented Socialized medicine with a $50 Abortion and nominated 27 out of 36 extreme progressive liberals qualifies as “Doing Evil so that Good may come” in my opinion.

[Tennessee Nana]

It took the Progressives a century to bring us to this point,
______________________________________________

100 years you say ???

Is that all ???

and yet you would roll over and give up to the Liberal Progressive Willard...

What about God who has not changed His mind in THOUSANDS of years ???

Are you so easily swayed by puny man ???

[Kansas58]

You are wrong, and your rash judgments are evidence that others should avoid your faulty advice.

I wanted Sarah, and she did not run.
I then wanted Herman Cain, and he dropped out.
I then supported Newt but Newt fizzled out.
I then voted for Santorum.

But, there is no rational reason to take ANY action which might keep Obama in the White House.

[elkfersupper]

Alas, he’s the best we’ve got.

I'm calling BS on that and I am tired of hearing it for the past 40 years.

Gary Johnson. I'm voting for him. I know him, I trust him. I like what he did when he was my Governor. I live in a small, solidly-blue state with very few electoral votes, so that's the way I'm voting.

Better to do that than what I did the last time around, which was not vote in the Presidential race at all.

[Tennessee Nana]

I despise Romney as much as you do
________________________________________

No you dont and not enough...

[NoLibZone]

Reagan easily on of the nations greatest presidents didn’t leave conservatism , you left Reagan.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153552/posts

In 1994, Reagan directly lobbied Members of Congress to pass the federal Assault Weapons Ban.

The ban passed the U.S. House of Representatives 216-214, a margin of just two votes. One of those votes was cast by former Rep.

Dick Swett (D-NH), who credited Reagan’s direct involvement for his “aye” vote. Swett told the Boston Globe, “he made up his mind after being lobbied by the idol of GOP conservatives, President Ronald Reagan.”

[DoughtyOne]

"...but I don’t believe that we have to have assault weapons as part of our personal arsenal."

There's that word again. 99% of gun owners have a personal collection of guns. They DO NOT have a personal arsenal. While the word can be used in this context, the use is generally reserved for military or government stores with large quantities of weapons and munitions.

The media uses the word to insight a negative reaction.

Mitt is allowing the media to set up the terms of the debate, instead of correcting them.

[Pontiac]

If you want an acceptable nominee in 2016, you need to reject this unacceptable nominee in 2012. Just say no.

Romney is the GOP candidate for 2012. We can’t change that.

I am not willing to surrender my country to BHO for four more years.

I don’t believe my country would survive in any recognizable form. With the damage Obama has already done I am not sure our country will survive. I can’t risk not supporting Romney.

Obama is the Great Destroyer.

Can you leave our country in the hands of this man for four more years?

[Tennessee Nana]

And Romney is hardly an anti-white racist.
_________________________________________

Hes an anti-black racist...

How is that different ???

[Talisker]

(Seriously: Do we really need to be able to buy and own these things? Is that really in the best interests of our society? Really?)

Yes Henry, you statist pig, WE do.

YOU don't.

[DoughtyOne]

With all due respect, a Mitt win makes gun control much more likely to take place. He agrees with “REASONED”, gun control. So do many Republicans. So do all Democrats.

A “reasoned” gun control bill would pass easily under a Republican Congress.

Most Democrats and enough Republicans to make the difference would vote for it. Romney would sign it.

I don’t want Obama either, but we don’t win either way this fall, and any Leftist legislation favored by Romney, will slide through with enough bipartisan support to sink us all.

We’re screwed.

[mrsmel]

I find that hard to believe. If there were even one tiny instance of racism in Romney’s history, this administration and its media arm would have already spread it far and wide. They play the race card constantly and on the basis of nothing, I don’t think they’d let any real racist event on Romney’s part get by them.

[ansel12]

So that is one vote for the pro-abortion platform.

[jwalsh07]

Hear, hear. Blodgett should be in jail.

[DoughtyOne]

Nana, am I understanding you clearly? Do you think Romney is a racist against Blacks? For the record, I sure don’t see it that way. Am I missing something?

[Balding_Eagle]

Your first paragraph and your second paragraph are at odds with each other.

If he truly intends ‘not to fail this country’ there is no need to ‘push’ him.

I think that you don’t believe your second paragraph any more than I do.

In fact, now that I re-read it, the second part of your first paragraph is at odds with the first part. He can’t be ‘pushed’ and I think you and most everyone else using that line understand that too.

[Diogenesis]

Mr. RomneyCARE is NOT the nominee.

QUESTION. How many days before the GOP primary
did George Romney pull out?

Answer 12 days.

[Little Bill]

Nana, I can state with some certainty that Mitt is not Anti black nor is he a racist, I don't like Mitt but those charges are baseless

I think that you New Zeelanders might want to review your treatment of your minorities.