Bill O'Reilly Presses Mitt Romney on RomneyCare; Asks How He Would Defeat Obama

Backstabbing, carpetbagging, vote-buying, Mitt Romney:
” Now that my Romneycare (funded 50% by US taxpayers) is national, ready to hurt
three hundred million, a little self examination is in order for you Republicans.
You may want to ask yourself “if I had spent my time promoting
RomneyCare and Mitt Romney, could not I have garnered more support
of both Mr. Obama and the magnificent Gov. Mitt Romney?“

“Romney praises Obama again
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama
at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday ..
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said....
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president
for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough ....The former businessman even offered faint praise for
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps,
"I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."

If we nominate this guy will someone please Tell me. What is the point of being a Republican?

Romney = Obamacare.

Republicans can not run Romney as a candidate and campaign against Obamacare too.

It would be an inconsistent platform that would legitimize Obamacare.

Disagree with you that Romney can’t run but, he needs to admit this mistake for what it was, now. I took a telcall while this was on the TV and didn’t hear him but he has to say we tried, it’s dopey, let’s repeal.

Interesting defense of RomneyCare. Sounds like Onada and his stimulous—don’t he and his commie buddies keep telling us it did exactly what it was supposed to do too?

As in Election 2008, Romney ONLY role is as a spoiler.
Romney THREW the election 2008 to Obama
which is NOT a reason to support the backstabber (except to RomneyBOTS).

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, poor loser “I am Myth” Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin (and her defenseless children) to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician… I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"

"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"

Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."

"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."

Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

What was the deal with the straw poll?? Romney is the last person I’d vote for, unless you put McCain in the mix. My hubby likes him and thinks he could dig us out of this financial hole the government has put us in. I say, anyone with half a brain and a good cabinet could, but, what do I know.

Yea, he’s just to flashy, perfect teeth, perfect hair. I’m not good with Romney at all.

So if you run Romney, you can take your pick:

He defends Romney care, and runs with an inconsistent platform that legitimizes Obamacare, or
Run a candidate that admits the biggest accomplishment of his one term administration was a major blunder.

When the Republican party decides to run Romney for President, that is the day I register as an Independent.

"(Under the lash of carpetbagger Gov. Mitt Romney) as U.S. real output grew
13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

MITT ROMNEY EXPOSED BUYING VOTES
NEW ORLEANS -- I spoke to a young female delegate who said she planned to vote for
Romney in the poll. I asked her how she had ended up at the conference.
She said "Evangeli cals for Mitt" had contacted her and offered to pay for her to have a
limited-access ticket -- so long as she agreed to vote for Romney in the straw poll.
Asked how "Evangelicals for Mitt" got her name, she said she didn't know. But she said
that she was on the email list for Romney, and speculated that the Romney team
had given out their email list. “

Saw it. Romney even mentioned that, supposedly the Feds were paying half of MA’s “Romneycare” tab. His claim that it was a “state program vs. Federal” is, thereby, totally spurious.

He’s not the devil incarnate, but I wouldn’t vote for him. He’s not nearly conservative enough to energize the base, let alone the Tea Partiers. I find him too smarmy, personally.

Romney is delusional....there is no defending what he signed off on with Romneycare. How can he go around criticizing Obamacare when he did practically the same thing.

Sure seems as if the media is promoting Romney. It’s similar to the support they provided McCain prior to getting the nomination.

I find him too smarmy.
I saw the BOR interview and that's the exact word that came to my mind too.

Yes: and that alone should make any knowledgeable voter suspicious.

If we nominate this guy will someone please Tell me. What is the point of being a Republican?

None, and that is what the treasonous party leaders are counting on to hand the election to the democrats.

Romney’s biggest success isn’t that dopey bill - it’s that he was elected Governor of FReakin’ Massachusetts. That is an accomplishment to me, I don’t really care if anyone else thinks it is, or not.

I’ve come to realize that no one I would ever really, truly, enthusiastically, fawningly support has a ghost of a chance of becoming President. So given that truth, I just want the best we can get. Romney is in the mix. It’s just the truth.

Even George Washington couldn’t get elected in these times, given his tobacco farming and Indian terrorist problems. It’s so friggin’ unrealistic out there now.