I was not aware he violated his marriage vows...
HMMmm...
I thought EVERY MORMON knew that!!!
Decisions decisions!
Posted on 01/22/2010 6:06:18 PM PST by restornu
As The Wall Street Journal points out in an opinion this morning, this is a good day not only for Scott Brown, the new senator from Massachusetts, but for Mitt Romney as well. Glenn Beck doesn’t trust Brown, he says. But with Brown toting friends like the popular former governor of Massachusetts, William Weld, John McCain and Romney around on his bus, it might not be such a good day for Glenn Beck.
The WSJ’s Kim Strassel pointed out that Romney’s closest aides flooded to Mr. Brown, bringing with them the savvy of his national operation.
“From a perch atop his Free and Strong America PAC, Mr. Romney has been raising money, nurturing his team, keeping himself in the national spotlight. With the Massachusetts Senate race, he sensed an unexpected opportunity to step to the front of the GOP presidential ranks,” she writes.
I doubt that the Tea Party’s tent will fold with the election of Brown, but something else has happened: The river that runs between traditional Republicans and insurgent conservative populists now has a bridge in Scott Brown. In fact, it has another bridge in Virginia with the new governor, Bob McDonnell, who will give the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech Wednesday. The insurgents have built a new base for organization and now, with the election of Brown and McDonnell, it is being absorbed into the mainstream.
But when the very first thinking about regional identity started to surface here in New England as a militant defense against federal overreach, Romney was the governor of Massachusetts and he was already incorporating the same elements of thinking, not as revolutionary polemic, but as practical and effective management strategies here in Massachusetts.
Thus the phrase, “One size does not fit all,” which he began to use as governor, used throughout his presidential campaign and used again this last week in a Fox Business interview. It is his theme song. Texas Gov. Rick Perry now uses the phrase as well, and so does Sarah Palin.
Republican pundits report that Romney’s stock has been down because of RomneyCare, the healthcare program that Romney instituted in Massachusetts. Some of the features suggest ObamaCare, and as large numbers oppose ObamaCare’s vast federal spending, the thinking goes, they would therefore oppose RomneyCare. But that misses the point.
“The bill that was being pushed in Washington was not good for Massachusetts,” Brown said after his election. “It may have been good for other states, but we already had everything and a lot of what was being proposed.”
That is just the point in Romney’s thinking about healthcare: What is good for one state and region is not necessarily good for others. Romney is in fact in the avant garde with this thinking, which has become the base camp of the states’-sovereignty movement.
Romney was unique in the history of Massachusetts governors in that he came to us from the west. He had personal experience in the Western states, in Michigan and in Massachusetts, where he went to college.
My observation here when he was governor was that he had that rare quality which Zen Buddhists call “beginner’s mind.” He does not rebel from new ideas and new people but continually incorporates aspects of new thinking in his own ideas to make a better fit. And he is aware that the country has changed since 1776, when the west was forest and later when it was frontier, and even the 1930s, when the vast majority of Americans worked in one of two places, the floor of the factory or the field.
One-size-fits-all-federalism might have been the perfect system then. But today for a country as full and rich and varied and alive as ours, the old system is a disaster. Romney was the first to catch on.
Aye. Or here in California. Throw them ALL out!!
Somebody Google® Greg Ballard of Indianapolis.
Thank you, Resty, for ADMITTING that you do NOT know what JS allegedly learned.
What 'answers' did you recieve?
YOU!! complaining of GIBBERISH?
Next thing you know, I will be called UGLY by a TOAD!
...it SOUNDED right!
I was not aware he violated his marriage vows...
I was not aware that health care from the private sector and socialized health care were the same!
Thank you for sharing
I thought he said about '08??
Neither!
Test the LENGTH allocation of the TAG_LINE variable.
HMMmmm...
I was SURE that TRUE conservatives did NOT compromise...
Hint: Government force is not private sector. Other than that, Romney is an abortionist, socialist, two-bit, two-faced lying political whore of a statist scumbag. But he can’t be personally blamed. It’s genetic. Both sides.
There's an old saying:
Follow the money.
Taking a third or fourth grade course in English grammar would help her at least try to make a coherent argument
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Thank you for your unkind advice I just might do that now that I have found a scientific discovery at long last there is a possibility for me repair the affliction I had to live with all my life.
Hint: Government force is not private sector.
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I agree the Kennedy machine days are numbered!
Ballard was the only Republican to file for mayor, as few members of the city's once-dominant Republican Party were willing to run against Peterson.
Ballard was dramatically outspent by Peterson. He had only $300,000 in campaign funds and low name recognition when he began the race.[4] In comparison, Peterson already had $2.9 million in April (Ballard had $9,560 at the time).[5] As late as October 14, Ballard had run no TV ads.[5] An October 19 campaign finance report showed that Peterson had raised $1.5 million since April and still had that much to spend. Comparatively, Ballard only had $51,000 left, meaning that Peterson had 30 times the funds Ballard had during the last three weeks of the campaign.[6]
Nonetheless, on November 6, 2007, Ballard won the race to become mayor of Indianapolis.
(From WIKI...)
It is never unkind to encourage those who suffer from a deficiency to improve themselves. It is liberals who think that people should wallow in mediocrity. But then again, your support of the socialist Romney might indicate your subscribe to the liberal view.
Resty; you are not aware of SO many things!
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