Posted on 02/12/2012 11:20:42 PM PST by Lancey Howard
Yes.
I think most Utahan Mormons have been Mormons for generations, they are born into the cult.
Dennis Prager actually came out on his show today to say he thinks Romney does not have core convictions and it will cause him to struggle to retain support.
Pleasantly surprised, because Dennis has somewhat supported Romney in the past without outright endorsing him. He is having second thoughts now.
Hopefully he will recognize Newt’s core convictions and endorse him soon.
Thanks for the heads up on Dennis having reservations about Romney.
I don’t expect the same from Hewitt or Medved.
First of all I do not have a horse in this race. My horse has already dropped out. Second of all, I am not comparing any one to other. My point is people are known to have changed. Reagan & McNamara are just examples that popped up in my head. Actually yours truly has also transformed from a democrat activist into a conservative republican.
Among the three leading contenders..Rick, Newt & Mitt, Romney is the most questionable conservative. His previous stance on abortion & healthcare issues are my reasons. I will give him points for 800 or so veto’s as governor in 4 years. Bush-43 had 11 veto’s in 8 years. I will not be convinced of his conversion unless he actually executes conservative causes if elected. Newt worries me on his man made global warming stance. But he would be the most effective “change” maker among the three. Santorum is just fine so long as you get over his votes on national debt limits and his opposition to Toomey etc.
Again, the point is, people can change. Some are real and others are just chameleons.
Medved & Hewitt have spent time in the political machine in Washington and are well networked there. Dennis does not have the same drawbacks and is a little more objective, though he is good friends with Medved and Hewitt based on their shared Radio Show owner.
I have to assume Medved and Hewitt have Friends who have badmouthed Newt for one thing or another and are not giving him a fair shake, even though Newt’s plan is an amazingly laid out conservative agenda.
Newt’s economic plans include:
Rebuilding our manufacturing base” by eliminating the capital gains tax for all investment
Allowing 100 percent expensing of all new capital equipment
Requiring mandatory business-led training those who receive unemployment benefits
Eliminating the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency
Creating an Environmental Solutions Agency full of common-sense professionals instead of zero-growth anti-business radicals
Creating a 21st-century Food and Drug Administration to unleash medical research
Slashing the corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent
Actually collecting some taxes from General Electric
Abolishing the immoral death tax
Cutting everyone’s taxes with the flat tax plan Steve Forbes brought back from Hong Kong
Balancing the federal budget by bringing the level of spending down to meet the level of revenue
Stopping the taxing of the American people to pay off Barack Obama’s credit card
Using American energy to reduce fuel prices
Increasing government revenue through economic growth
Saving $500 billion a year by replacing the 130-year-old incompetent and inefficient civil service system with a modern system
Abolishing the totally failed Department of Energy
Subcontracting fraud-riddled Medicaid and Medicare administration to professional data administrators from credit card companies
Taking the 10th Amendment seriously
Strengthening Social Security
Auditing the Federal Reserve
Re-balancing the federal judiciary
Bouncing Fed chief Ben Bernanke out of Washington.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=49457
I hope that you read post 56, and will take it to heart, comparing Romney reversing himself on every thing to run in a different race in 2006, to a natural born conservative opening his eyes during 1940s America, is just absurd.
It makes a difference in what era of American history something happens.
Romney did not change, simply looking at his age, almost 60 when he suddenly reversed himself on EVERYTHING, his passion for his liberalism as recorded on film during his previous life, the fact that even with experts training him, he still cannot even express conservatism, there is no reason for anyone to pretend to believe that in a single stroke, just as he was announcing a Presidential run, that he made the biggest political transformation in history.
WOW! Very nice vanity! Thank you so much for taking the time to post it.
Ann Coulter....I had high hopes for her even after she went in the tank for Christie, and then Romney. She went into tank for Romney not long after she declared that he couldn’t win.
However, the day that I stopped listening to her is the day that she wrote her “Yay for Romneycare” article, and the day that she told Hannity that she told Mitt that she wanted his ear, and that he’d better be the conservative that she thought he was.
That was desperation, IMO.
Awesome graphic!
Very, very true.
...and that he’d better be the conservative that she thought he was.
Yep. Ann is keeping her fingers crossed...What does that tell you?
I will no longer vote for a candidate who makes me scrunch my eyes shut and cross my fingers as I whisper, "Please be conservative, please be conservative...".
uhmmmm.... who is your current chump?...erh, choice....?
I will vote for whoever is in a position to block Flip McRomney when it comes time to vote. Right now Rick seems best positioned. Otherwise, I would write in Fred Thompson or Sarah Palin.
Her Idaho accent doesn’t sound as sophisticated as we have come to expect from our elites, please pass the grey poupon!
I didn’t see anybody else keeping the audience on its feet and applauding the whole time. But hey her voice is a little nasal, so let’s go with the socialists and RINO’s instead. Give me a break.
Eliminating the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency
Allowing 100 percent expensing of all new capital equipment
Slashing the corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent
Abolishing the totally failed Department of Energy
All relate to:
Using American energy to reduce fuel prices
Which ties in with:
Increasing government revenue through economic growth
There is a limit to how far fuel prices can come down at present, related to exploration, drilling, and extraction costs, some of which is related to government taxation and policy (especially environmental policy), and some of which is related to the technology used to find and extract oil and gas.
Those costs will put a floor in under fuel prices until there is some relief.
But the Feds could reduce fuel taxes at the pump and help out a little...(I know, not part of the 'green' agenda).
I am with Sarah Palin and looking for a deadlocked convention. I was for Bachmann & Cain, but they dropped out.
Fine by me.
Mutt is going to get swamped if it’s brokered.
He won’t be able to withstand the momentum of the electorate who actually has very specific views on issues that are current and supremely relevant.
I think that Ann is clicking her ruby red slippers together saying...”he’s a conservative, he’s a conservative...there’s no place like conservative.”
She’s going to be disappointed, disillusioned, and discredited, if she’s not already.
I would say she's pretty much been discredited.
"Jumped the shark," is the phrase I keep seeing.
“Jumped the shark,” is the phrase I keep seeing.”
Yes...there’s that. I’ve seen it, experienced it, and hate to throw a former conservative over the side.
But, there ya’ go...over the side with you, Ann.
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