Posted on 12/10/2006 11:02:08 AM PST by Jeff Fuller
"Despite recent statements across the country by Governor Mitt Romney claiming he’s pro-life, pro-family and a committed conservative, a broad investigation of his actual statements, actions, and public positions over the years indicates that he has spent his entire career speaking and governing as a liberal – and that his new found conversion to conservatism very likely coincides with his candidacy for the presidency."
Please refer to comment #1 to see what a shoddy piece of work this is. If they are trying to convince people of something, they should at least get SOME of the facts right and not rely on the Boston Globe, Bay Windows, and The Boston Phoenix as their "authoritative sources".
(Excerpt) Read more at alainsnewsletter.com ...
Thank you. It would be too much to expect Teddy to have a close call, I guess, although one could always hope...
Romney was rated B by the NRA, never said he was pro choice and was always against gay marriage. But for some reason the new york times and the boston globe want us to think otherwise. Now why would that be?
You can save your breath, because the wacko 100%ers are not listening. The facts dont mean anything in the face of what they want. They dont have a viable candidate, they never have had a viable candidate. These are the Buchananites trying to sneak back into the party after being booted for their nonsense. They will remain nothing but a nuisance right up to the election where they will endorse some nut like Tancredo as their representative.
""since he came close to taking Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in 1994."
Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat, 1,266,011, 58.1%.
W. Mitt Romney, Republican, 894,005, 41.0%
Hoo-wee, that was a squeaker, all right. ;)"
Kennedy's next opponent lost by 60 points. His previous one (88') lost by 32. Kennedy has beaten his opponents by, on average, over 40 points. So yes, losing by 17 to Teddy Kennedy in Massachussetts (13% Republican Massachussetts) after Kennedy brought in every single big name Democrat in the country when October polls showed him losing, is a political miracle not to be replicated in my lifetime.
I also have a link to this on my personal page. By the way, does anybody really know what has happened to Alain lately? He hasn't written for quite awhile.
Not to be replicated in your lifetime? Look at the bright side; maybe you'll outlive Ted and get to see another Senator from Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney tacks left, right, wherever he thinks will win him an election and advance his career.
He signed the permanent Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban and supported the federal AWB.
never said he was pro choice
BS BS BS, Mitt Romney publicly and repeatedly trumpeted his supported for legal abortion .... until he gave up on Massachusetts and started running for president. Look at what he told NARAL in his most recent election, seeking their endorsement:
By "discrimination of gays", I assume you mean the multitude of gay rights issues that Mitt Romney supports, the special rights agenda which are the building blocks leading to gay marriage?
You sound just like a liberal, trumpeting your boss's commitment to gays in the Boy Scouts, gay adoptions, gay "non-discrimination", benefits for gay partners, etc etc etc.
George Bush opposed repeal of the Brady Bill . Is there a difference between Bush and Romney?
So did Bush who you've supported, haven't you? Why does Bush get a pass, but for Romney this is an unforgiveable apostasy?
I am absolutely astounded at the vigorous and underhanded effort to destroy anyone who might pose an actual threat to the "front runners." My goodness, who could be behind all of this? /s
So you're saying I should like Romney because he has all of Bush's flaws and none of his strengths?
Bush at least engineered it so the AWB died despite his promise to sign it "if it reached" his desk -- just as I predicted would happen, so he gets some mitigation there. Romney not only endorsed the concept of the federal ban but passed and signed his own permanent AWB in Massachusetts.
Of course being anti-gun is only one of Romney's many failings, the chief one being a finger-in-the-wind slimy phony two-faced John Edwards wannabe.
Just what spews forth from your keyboard.
I guess the full-blown homo-phobes may conclude for his anti-discrimination stances that Romney is not their candidate
Liberal, liberal, liberal .... the name-calling (people who don't support "gay rights" are "homo-phobes" (sic)), trying to play "gay rights" as an issue of discrimination, please, you sicken me.
He also went to bat for the Catholic charities adoption services when they were under pressure for not allowing their kids to be placed with homosexual couples.
Oh please, no he didn't and you know it. Quit the lying, it's disgusting. He said he'd help, could have helped, but then did a 180 and did nothing. Flip, flop, let's play both sides.... Oh, right, he tried to win himself brownie points by supporting legislation that would never have a chance of passing, if it was ever even written up as a bill.
Also, please name the legislation he proposed or signed that extended special rights homosexuals . . .
he said he would support domestic partnership benefits, at one point saying they would become a "hallmark of my leadership as governor." ... Romney has broader goals in mind, and will use this opportunity to establish further rights for gay couples, Fehrnstrom said. "At the end of the day, same-sex couples will end up with more rights and benefits than they previously enjoyed," he said. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,525039435,00.html
I'm sure you have more info on the gay rights legislation Romney has championed -- if you weren't so duplicitous and seeking to hide his pro-gay record you'd post it yourself.
Bush had no problems signing a restriction on the First Amendment when it "reached his desk", so too he likely would have done the same with the Second Amendment.
The MA State Senate is 35 Dems to 5 Republicans. The House is 135 to 21. Do you think that an AWB with a veto proof majority is likely to "reach the desk" of a Governor in that State?
Bush was Governor of fricking Texas. Why he couldn't bring himself to oppose the Brady Bill? Maybe he was Edwards-chameleon like looking to moderate his position for the the 2000 Presidential election?
So does that mean you're in favor of passing Federal laws to prohibit abortion in all 50 states? Or would you instead see Roe vs. Wade overthrown and revert it to the states?
I favor the latter over the former -- I humbly consider myself a states-righter. So when I hear someone apply or take either label with regard to choice, it tells me little.
Lincoln did not "save his breath" when our country was caught in a similar division over slavery. The Abolitionists had little use for his toleration of slavery in the slave states in order to save the Union. Today's Abolitionists against the wrong of abortion have many more ways to accomplish their goals within the political framework, essentially it starts with Supreme Court judges who are willing to let the states individually decide the issue for themselves. The rest should be left to citizens to reach out to their fellow citizens in a positive and loving manner to save unwanted children and encourage positive attitudes so that more mothers want their children.
In MA against Ted K that's about as close as anyone's gotten!
...Slick Willard...?
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