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.
The point is so many FReepers were jumping up and down and tea party folks also for Brown to win in such a large margin!
Sarah Palin is going to stump for McCain in AZ so who are the fickled folks here?
my head is spinning trying to figure out this FR maze!
Obama won election last in 2008. By your statement I should be supporting him because he won.
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Gee I wish folks would quit trying to put words in my mouth!
There is no maze. Free Republic supports conservatives. All others can suck eggs. Romney is not a conservative.
A Brown win may be useful for stopping the Obama agenda, but we will be fighting him on other issues in the future. Should others show themselves to be RINOs through the elective process we will out them and come down hard on them no matter who they are.
No more RINOs.
“Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!” ~ Jim Robinson
Popular demand DOES NOT NEGATE THE CONSTITUTION! It did not in the segregated South in the 50s and 60s, and it doesn't today, in Massachusetts.
I personally agree No More Rinos for the “Conservatives”
So how does that fit into a republic which the constitution is made up of freemen ever sense the beginning?
That is why there is a two party system
The founding fathers of this great Nation discuss and discuss until they were blue in the face but they allow all to have a voice and as time went on there was a meeting of the minds!
When you want to speak for you our constitution allows for that, but where in the constitution does it allow a few to try to hogtie it shutting out the others in voicing their opinions.
This constitution will only work when man allows the ebb and tide to take place. When citizens monitor what is being taught in schools is it principle oriented, is local government filtering out subversives.
In other words is citizenry doing it duty by paying attention!
In all due respect this site should consider the name Conservative Republic, or even the Principle Republic.
The word Free is misleading!
Since you have such disdain for conservatism, it is probably time for you to take a hike like so many other RomneyBots.
Since you have such disdain for conservatism, it is probably time for you to take a hike like so many other RomneyBots.
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There you go again putting words in my mouth....
I am a conservative you seem to have tendency towards being a tyrant!
These are my principles
The 5000 year leap : Principles of Freedom inspired by our Founding Fathers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwJMMsF110
In case you want to read them!
28 Principles of the Constitution
http://www.constitutionpartypa.com/28_principles.htm
I have little use for tyrannts or marxist!
When one gets to wound up on either side they deny freedom!
The Political Spectrum is something one should learn the Founding Fathers knew it!
http://adlar.com/nccs/lesson_4.html
They were your words.
Nobody is restricting your freedom of speech...or freedom of association either. This is a private forum belonging to Jim Robinson. You are allowed to be here only by his good graces. If you choose to advocate for values that are contrary to conservative values then you will not be tolerated on this forum. Pimping for Romney is counter to conservative values.
Well, that's because RINOs only create jobs in Mexico, China, India, and other third whirled cesspools.
If you choose to advocate for values that are contrary to conservative values then you will not be tolerated on this forum
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Are you saying you object to this?
28 Principles of the Constitution
http://www.constitutionpartypa.com/28_principles.htm
I have little use for tyrannts or marxist!
When one gets to wound up on either side they deny freedom!
The Political Spectrum is something one should learn the Founding Fathers knew it!
http://adlar.com/nccs/lesson_4.html
What are you an AM off duty?
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Pimping for Romney is counter to conservative values.
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It is you with the foul mouth and implying things that were never said!
You assume too much that was never said in my post...
I am having a discussion and observing inconsistency
I object to anyone pushing the socialist turd Romney. Anyone who says they are a conservative and yet props up Romney is a prostitute for liberalism.
Who is pushing Socialism?
There has never been in any of the post I have ever posted on FR!
It seems your friends accept your foul mouth expression
I find it being boorish, an uncouth person!
Rush says when one can’t discuss on a subject they find the need to resort to using bad mouthing or name calling!
You are. You continually pimp Romney on this forum and then when FReepers object you attempt to besmirch their reputations, as you have done with me in this thread and in the past when you called me a "son of perdition".
I draw your attention to this quote: "Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson
Are you in favor of Romney? If so, you are pushing socialism.
Popular demand DOES NOT NEGATE THE CONSTITUTION! It did not in the segregated South in the 50s and 60s, and it doesn’t today, in Massachusetts.
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I like the fact you also recognized that many of the founding fathers did not segregation but the populist was not mature enough and it was written in an addendum that within 20 years for the states to prepare themselves in order for the transition.
Which sadly to say it took a war and many years to achieved!
Gun rights they were losed because of propaganda by the progressive who are responsible for this what I mean they have been for years subverting the constitution and for the last 40 years or so the NEA philosophy water down or ignores our constitution subverted then minds of the future generations that they could not make an educated decision on this subject.
The important thing now is to restore and teach the Principles of liberty and why!
you are a boorish man who seems to not want another point of view on various topics such as inconsistency and misconception.
You are not a seeker of truth are you!
Well I am not “The Ends Justify the Means” type which is what you continue to try to push on me as you pursue and try to act like super dog!
I have stated in many post after this election of 08 it is too early to know what I am going to do in the mean time I will give my opinion when I see prejudice, discrepancies, congruent action etc.
WHO is typing this stuff using RESTY’s computer??
HEY!
Might would be ARRESTED!
(I’ve been known to be seen in public with them EXPOSED!!)
LOL thanks I needed a laugh!:)
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