Posted on 06/13/2006 9:31:51 PM PDT by BryanFischer
Welcome to FR, Bryan. Your post is about 6 months premature.
So Romney's a RINO, what else is new.
I don't know what the Idaho GOP believes but if they follow the party line, they do agree with him.
you registered today just to post a vanity.
Not what I would call a long time conservative activist.
Could be a lurker, cut him some slack.
so far this clown has posted 1 post, this vanity
I checked his website. It is well done at first glance, then you click the links about his "organization in the news" and you realize it is all hot air.
He could be working for mccain, allen or who knows, just to knock down romney.
I have little use for negative people.
Yes that is true, but i think its a given there are plenty of campaign operatives on these sites posting to make it seem like they are genuine activists but in reality just pushing an agenda.
The supposedly conservative Iowa GOP is featuring Romney at their convention this weekend, too.
RINOs on parade...
Good first post.
I've asked some of my friends who are delegates to the Idaho convention this weekend to ask some of the same questions you have asked.
The RINO state party chairman is reportedly going to make an attempt to radically water down the state party platform. Conservatives beware.
The other big issue that will be addressed in Idaho Falls is whether or not to close the primaries.
Open primaries are a liberal's dream come true...it's time to put a stop to their scam so that the conservative base of the GOP can choose their own leaders in future elections...and not have them chosen for them by liberals.
While this is obviously a vanity, does it really belong in Chat?
We have conservatives going to conventions in these particular states this weekend and FReeper activism is most certainly called for.
After the shellacking Idaho RINOs just took in the primaries, you'd think someone would have learned a few lessons.
Romney is a socialist engineer ala the Clintoons and the Kennedy clan.
My vote goes to conservatives who are Republicans as well. A conservative who claims to be a democrat is just asking to be marginalized by the dems. Ultimately, such an individual caves to party pressure in an attempt to be relevant.
Believe me, I know the man. He's not working for John McCain and he is a very strong Conservative activist. Welcome, aboard, Bryan, other than the somewhat paranoid members, Free Republic is a great place to read and post news.
Try first and likely only and last post. Beware of newbies posting vanities.
I don't care who he is. Going negative on a decent man like romney is wrong. You want to say what a great guy your man is and come support him (tancredo) or whoever, but you are losing me and a whole lot of others when you go negative.
Romney's personal decency is irrevelant. What Pastor Fischer posted refers to Romney's documentable public record. The clearest sign of weakness -- i.e., in the case, the inability to debate the facts or substance of Romney's record -- is to attack the messenger.
Staytrue, there was a day, however many years back, when you too -- like all the rest of us -- were a "first time poster."
Why not address the substance of the issues raised? The Idaho Values Alliance isn't gonna be on the ballot, and they're not the issue.
Romney's documentable, consistent, and insistent defense of a woman's "right to choose" to pay an abortionist to terminate her prenatal child's life is the issue. So much so that he was endorsed by the Republican Majority for Choice and defended by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL.
Plus his documentable support for homosexual activists' political agenda, with the exception of the marriage issue on which he has taken at least three different positions in the last three years. Endorsed (twice) by the homosexual "Log Cabin Republicans."
Folks in Idaho don't respond well to Massachusetts politicians with a record of insistently defending a woman's "right to choose," who think the Boy Scouts should allow homosexual Scoutmasters, and who favor gun control.
That's true -- as is Idaho Values Alliance's recitation of Romney's record -- regardless of whether this is IVA's first or 100th post.
Defend Romney's record if you can, and drop the personal attacks on people who dare address his record. Just makes you look like you can't defend the record.
StayTrue, I've been a member since October 2000. This is my 258th reply, in addition to 139 posts. Now that we've dispensed with that red herring, I invite you (and any other Romney advocate) to address the substance of Idaho Values Alliance's post, starting with the abortion issue.
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ROMNEY 1994 U.S. SENATE DEBATE: "I believe that abortion should be SAFE AND LEGAL in this country. I have since the time when my Mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years that we should SUSTAIN AND SUPPORT it, and I sustain and support that law and the RIGHT of a woman to make that CHOICE."
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/03/02/romneys_revolving_world/
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ROMNEY 2002 GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: "On Abortion Rights. As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current PRO-CHOICE status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change. The choice to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. Women should be FREE TO CHOOSE based on their own beliefs, not the government's."
http://web.archive.org/web/20021218005104/www.romneyhealey.com/issues/
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ROMNEY RESPONSE TO 2002 NARAL/PLANNED PARENTHOOD CANDIDATE SURVEY: "I respect and will protect a woman's RIGHT TO CHOOSE. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be FREE TO CHOOSE based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's. The truth is no candidate in the Governor's race in either party would deny women ABORTION RIGHTS."
http://www.pplm.org/Facts/rf_fact/pr_2005_07_14.htm
Ok fine, romney is pro choice as was G H Bush until he converted and picked Thomas for Scotus.
So what.
when I look at the idaho alliance website, I see a good website with more flash than substance.
It looks like a one man show.
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