Mitt Romney’s Realistic Approach To The 9/11 Mosque: Focus On The Economy

/mittromneycentral.com ^ | August 25th, 2010 1:56 am | Jared A.

[pillut48]

Newsweek reports that Mitt Romney is taking a different and unique approach than other potential 2012 candidates are. Unlike other politicians, including Obama himself, who feel compelled to offer their opinion on every issue that stirs controversy, Mitt Romney remains focused on the core issue that worries, as well as, unites Americans: the economy.

But now, while Palin and Co. are using the Ground Zero mosque controversy to burnish their far-right bona fides, Romney is seizing on the kerfuffle as an opportunity to do something else entirely: prove that he’s the only potential Republican nominee with the fortitude to ignore the 24/7 news cycle’s endless array of bright, shiny objects and focus instead on improving what he calls “the foundations of our economic vitality.”

Romney realizes that 2010 isn’t 2008, and he’s betting that 2012 won’t be, either. With the U.S. economy in shambles—and the rest of the Republican pack either too unpolished (Palin), too damaged (Gingrich), or too obscure (Pawlenty) to unseat Obama—the once-and-future candidate sees an opening for himself as the only grown-up, business-savvy, economic-turnaround expert in the race. Back in April, Romney told me what he regretted most about his last presidential run. “I wish I had been more effective in being able to communicate the central rationale of my campaign, which is strengthening the economy, getting better jobs, raising incomes,” he said. “Instead, as a candidate I spent a good deal of time answering questions about social issues.” Note how Romney mixed the past and present tenses. The implication was that he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.

[pillut48]

So, it looks like the MSM has decided Mitt's going to be the candidate in 2012, eh? "The 9/11 Victory Mosque/**** the 9/11 Families" controversy is just a "24/7 news cycle’s endless array of bright, shiny objects"???

Are the people over there at Newsweek and "Mitt Central" taking hard drugs, or what??

[johnthebaptistmoore]

RomneyCare, just by itself, will end Romney’s chances for political victory.

[Psalm 144]

“Mitt Romney’s Realistic Approach To The 9/11 Mosque: Capitulate”

[arthurus]

Romney getting his hands on the economy is the second to last thing I want to see in 2012.

[FreeStateYank]

The just won’t give up. Won’t work.

[ransomnote]

I’ve seen hints of that in various places. It usually reads like ‘progressives’ reluctantly giving into admiration for the man’s brilliance and focus. That, apparently, is what the MSM is telling us we thirst for most because, as Obama worshippers, those are the two traits they, oddly enough, paint Obama with. They think we like the same bright shiny objects as they do if they just wave him in our face enough.

[Rashputin]

Mitt and many others like him have spent decades focusing on anything except what the leftists are up to at the moment. They're always “above the fray” and focusing on “more important” things. That's the kind of blatant stupidity that let leftist judges be appointed, Christmas be damn near outlawed, and ignored systematic violations of the Second Amendment for decade after decade until someone finally took the matter to court.

Yeah, Mitt is focused on more important things all right, he's focused on not having the MSM on his butt so he can go along to get along just like so many others in spite of the country going over the cliff.

Regards

[arthurus]

I fear Romney will get the nomination and thus we will have a Kenyan reprise. I think that I would prefer a Soetoro win in 2012 to a Romney win. Unless things really go to hell for Republicans in the next two years we would have a Republican Congress with hobbled Imam Hussein. That would be better, I think than a Keynesian Romney. Too many Republicans would go along with Romney "improvements" to Obamacare and Romney would have a voting bloc of N.E. Republicans and Social Democrats. I cannot see a Republican other than Romney right now who can win the primaries unless the Clintons decide to run Mrs.Bill. If she is in it for real then Democrats will not swarm the Republican primaries and ally with the RNC to give us Romney.

[TigersEye]

No Barf Alert?

[montag813]

Mitty is SO gay

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Romney realizes that 2010 isn’t 2008, and he’s betting that 2012 won’t be, either. - Wow what an intellect - him big smarts man!

[pnh102]

So in other words, Romney doesn't even have the balls to say what he believes on this issue?

That makes him even worse than 0bama.

[pnh102]

I think that I would prefer a Soetoro win in 2012 to a Romney win.

I agree. There is literally 0 difference between 0bama and Romney policy-wise. If the country is going to continue being screwed, we might as well have a Democrat doing it.

[nikos1121]

All I can say is for once I’d love to see someone in the WH who can speak clearly about our economy and do the right thing to get us back on track again.

When it is very clear that the govt policies after the depression, prolonged the depression and raised unemployment, you have an idiot in the WH now who is doing the same thing and won’t stop.

[nikos1121]

Palin gets more polished every week....the rest get tarnished.

[Diogenesis]

"(The GroundZero Mosque) cleared its final hurdle ….
developers plan to build the $100 million center which will include a mosque.
Since its incipient stages in July 2009, when a Muslim-run real-estate development
company purchased the damaged, vacant building and land where the new center
will be built, the project has sparked controversy and debate.
.... the tattered building that was bought by the Muslim real estate company had
been owned by a subsidiary of Bain Capital, a company Romney founded in 1984.
So it’s OK if his company can profit off the sale of the land ."

[Diogenesis]

"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."

[Diogenesis]

True, but that would NOT be Romney, the proven bad governor.

"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.]

[Diogenesis]

Romney - The anti President Reagan.

Romney - Ineligible ... like Obama.

"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

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"I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

[ThePatriotsFlag]

By "purposely" NOT weighing on an AMERICAN SECURITY ISSUE (Shari'a Expansion in the USA) ... Romney, with his silence has stuck himself to the issue. The Tar Baby Mosque.