Posted on 12/26/2006 9:03:55 PM PST by Jeff Fuller
Michale Reagan has a column up where he has some great things to say about Romney. Essentially, he says that Romney and Giuliani are the type of leaders/candidates that could beat Sen. Hillary Clinton:
The common wisdom holds that it is all but inevitable that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, and that she’ll be a formidable if not unbeatable candidate.I don’t disagree with that assumption, despite the sudden emergence of Barack Hussein Obama as the media’s newest darling. I see him as nothing more than a passing fancy for the mainstream media. If it becomes evident that he poses a real threat to Sen. Hillary Clinton he’ll suddenly find himself under a withering fire of criticism and he won’t have the vaguest notion where it’s all coming from. Wiser heads, however, will understand that the Clinton attack machine is back in action and before it’s finished Obama will be history.
So let’s accept the fact that whoever the GOP nominee is, he’ll be facing Hillary Clinton. If the Republicans want to win, they will have to decide which Mrs. Clinton they plan to run against; just plain Hillary Clinton, or United States Senator Hillary Clinton, D-NY.
If they choose to run against Hillary Clinton, they’ll lose. If they choose to run against Senator Clinton, they’ll win hands down.
If we run against Hillary Clinton as the former first lady, if we run against her as the wife of Bill Clinton, if we run against the cherished darling of the media who spent eight years all but canonizing her as America’s patron saint, she’ll win.
Running against that Hillary is the wrong argument. If, however, you run against Senator Hillary Clinton and her record, or her abysmal lack of one as a senator, you can win.
If you focus on her dismal record of accomplishment and not on her carefully created image as St. Hillary and her hyped-up public personality you’ll beat her hands down.
You can beat the senator; you cannot beat the cardboard saint.
Consider her record as a senator. She admits she voted for the war and now she says it was a mistake, not exactly the kind of consistency we expect from a president.
Senatorial candidate Hillary Clinton promised to bring 200,000 new jobs to New York. She failed, claiming that she didn’t have the benefit of a Democratic Congress to help her achieve that goal, but adding that even though there had not been the kind of environment she hoped for, there had been some progress.
The fact is that there hasn’t been any progress. New York is not improving – it’s getting worse. New York has lost 112,000 jobs since sending Senator Clinton to Washington.
In contrast, consider the records of two Republicans, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Both governed with Democratic majorities in both state legislatures.
Back on April 12, 2006, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed into law an act to provide health insurance to virtually all citizens of Massachusetts and did it without raising taxes.
Working with Democrats in the state legislature and others, he developed a plan that starting next July will make mandatory health insurance for all state residents, providing a plan is available to the individual that is deemed affordable according to state standards.
Romneycare won in 2006, Hillarycare lost in 1993.
Romney has done much more and been credited with creating an environment that has attracted new jobs to his state, especially in the field of technology. Massachustts added jobs, New York lost them.
Another executive facing Democratic-controlled city and state legislative bodies was New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. His leadership in the nation’s toughest city created jobs, brought down crime, and shepherded the city through the darkest days after 9/11.
Those are genuine records of accomplishments, and when you run candidates with such records you can win against candidates with dismal records such as Senator Hillary Clinton’s.
The point is when you argue on the merits you can win. When you argue on personalities, you lose.
It’s no wonder Senator Hillary Clinton, who has the media in her pocketbook, wants you to attack her as Hillary Clinton and not as Senator Clinton who has accomplished nothing meaningful as a senator.
Matched against a Republican with a solid record for getting things done, she’s a sure loser.
I can't wait for Romney to officially announce so that he can start defining his message (rather than having the MSM and opponents define it for him; such as has happened during the last few weeks).
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What's the deal with the recent population decline in MA (besides the obvious = taxation)? Does Romney have anything to say about that?
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Ah, Massachusetts, where all the machetes are registered!
Just the example we need!
Y'all wake me up when you find a Republican candidate!
Romney is I think a really great candidate. Not perfect, but way better than most of the others that the MSM has anointed.
Of all the candidates that seem to actually be in the running so far, he is clearly the only one with a chance of getting my precious vote.
Yep. Not perfect as you say but who else is out there. I can see him winning the nomination if no one else emerges.
I'm Pro Anti, I'm in favor of being against whatever you got.
I don't know what they have to say,
it makes no difference anyway -
whatever it is, I'm against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I'm against it!
Your proposition may be good,
but let's have one thing understood -
whatever it is, I'm against it!
And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
I'm against it!
I'm opposed to it.
On general principles I'm opposed to it.
For months before my son was born,
I used to yell from night to morn -
"Whatever it is, I'm against it!"
And I've kept yelling since I first commenced it,
"I'm against it!"
I'm not enthaustiac about some of his political stances - but realistically, the ones that he holds that Conservatives oppose have little if any chance of becoming law - no matter who is in power.
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Everyone comments on that photo.
I'll make a point of picking up the book this week at the library.
(as I've said before) Hillary's problem is, she's not a very nice person. For better or worse in todays politics being nice, likeable, someone who looks like one of us (whoever us is) is very important, and in a long campaign the real Hillary (the one who in in touch with her inner bi*ch) will come out.
Here is what I wrote about Hillary's voice last year on FR:
She will never, ever get MEN to vote for her. I am not talking about Rush Limbaugh's "New Castrati". I am talking about Normal Men.
Her crusty pantsuitness's voice is like chalk on a board. It is the sound etched deep into the primordal areas of Man's Brain.
It is the sound of a woman who is very, VERY angry at him.
Her voice is shrill...and resonates a perfect, exquisitely awful dissonance at certain frequencies.
Primordal Man first heard that sound when he dragged his filthy, muddy ass into that clean, dry cave and was lit into by Primordal Woman because he didn't clean the swamp ooze off of his feet, or the Wooly Mammoth guts off of his malodorous fur skin.
That is the voice of Hillary Clinton. She tries to hide it. Oh, she tries sooooo hard. But no matter how hard she tries, there are times she opens that mouth and every man with that Primordal Man inside him, hears Her voice.
Just too darn expensive to live in MA for many folks (expensive cost of living and housing). Many places in the northeast have been losing people for years.
Not sure how that reflects on Romney in his short tenure, but detractors will try to blame him for it, I'm sure. He has ADDED JOBS in MA (as the article states). I'd move too if I lived in MA (where only 12% of folks are Republicans!).
The law is proven a success in 8 months??
Wait 2 years and take a look at the results. They won't be pretty.
Can *anyone* look more than 8-12 months down the road? Is long term defined as anything over 6 months?
Classic stuff there Valin! LOL!!
Rudy in competent, no question about that, has leadship skills, can get a great speech, cut taxes, and can get down and dirty with the best of them. But he has real problems on the social issues side of things 2nd amensment, abortion...etc, IF he is planning on running he has to address these or he's DOA.
Yep! That's why my favorite nickname for her is "Shrillary"
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