Posted on 01/05/2007 6:24:25 AM PST by teddyballgame
It looks like the Republicans have found their theme for the next two years of Democratic control of Congress. A slew of press releases from the GOP yesterday focused on the spectre of tax-raising by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and their controlling caucuses. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney became the first top-level Republican primary candidate to sign the Tax Pledge, joining most of the Republican caucuses in Congress:
Seeking to broaden his appeal as a presidential candidate beyond those Republicans attracted by his reputation as a social conservative, Governor Romney is making a play for economic conservatives by focusing on taxes.
Moments before Mr. Romney, whose term as governor ended this week, entered the offices of his presidential exploratory committee for the first time as a private citizen, he warned that the new Democratic Congress would succumb to raising taxes.
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Haley Barbour is the only one of those three who has even a remote chance for the nomination. Tancredo is a Loon and Purdue not well known enough.
"Gov. Romney is a very nice man. I think he is a gentleman." Those qualities alone should assure your vote should he be running against the Witch whose beliefs you DO know.
I wonder if the left will take advantage of Mitt's infamous slip-of-the-tongue, whe he called the tunnel a "tar baby."
It seems he's so far escaped the fate of his father George W. Romney who effectively torpedoed his own run for the oval office by saying he was brainwashed into supporting the Vietnam War.
How do you think his wacky religious beliefs will play out to middle America?
As Jacob Weisberg of Slate.com put it in a recent blog. “I wouldn't vote for someone who truly believed in the founding whoppers of Mormonism. The LDS church holds that Joseph Smith, directed by the angel Moroni, unearthed a book of golden plates buried in a hillside in Western New York in 1827. The plates were inscribed in "reformed" Egyptian hieroglyphics—a nonexistent version of the ancient language that had yet to be decoded,” he wrote. “Smith was able to dictate his "translation" of the Book of Mormon first by looking through diamond-encrusted decoder glasses and then by burying his face in a hat with a brown rock at the bottom of it. He was an obvious con man. Romney has every right to believe in con men, but I want to know if he does, and if so, I don't want him running the country.”
PS you can't call me a religious bigot. I base my opinion of his religious beliefs upon experience. I am an unbelieving member of the LDS church. THEY call me a lying apostate....you be the judge.
Personally, I don't think any of that will amount to much when push comes to shove, especially when you have to consider the alternatives, or lack thereof.
The biggest complaint I see about Mitt is that some people, especially on this forum, don't think he is genuine. MY biggest complaint was his performance involving the Scouts as director of the Olympics. I don't know how much influence he really had there, maybe PD knows more, but to me the Scouts are "untouchable"...my 3rd rail.
Okay, call me uninformed, but what about the scouts and the Olympics? I live in Utah, and have never heard anything positive or negative either way.
"The 2002 Olympics -- run by Mitt Romney -- was the only Olympics that restricted the Boy Scouts from participating. According to news reports, this was apparently because of pressure from homosexual activists. (But also, according to reports, homosexual groups participated fairly prominently.) Romney would not respond to reporters' questions about that action."
I repeat, I don't know how much influence he really had and I don't know that he ever made a personal statement regarding the situation but to me personally, it's a serious charge that needs to be addressed.
My wife and I visit Park City once a year...I absolutely love it. Favorite sport is snowmobiling and there's plenty of it.
Okay, yeah I love it too.....so what about the scouts, what happened?
post 28 is all I know...which is very litte.
Sorry, I read your scout information after you utah information. Thanks....interesting.
"How's about GOVT SPENDING?? If you indulge in that, its only a matter of time before taxes have to be raised."
Spending under Romney's tenure has increased at half the rate of federal increases. He actually decreased spending by 1.6 billion in his first year. Whatever else one says about Romney, he knows how to keep spending down and has done so in every venture he has ever pursued.
Tacking right, Romney runs into trouble
From the link:
It just gets worse and worse for Mitt Romney: It's now emerged that Romney actually voted for a liberal Democrat in 1992. Today's Washington Post piece on the criticism Romney's been taking from conservatives also contains the news that Romney, who was an independent in the early 1990s, voted for Tsongas in the 1992 Dem primary. That means that Romney was not only not conservative early in his career but wasn't even a moderate Republican. The man he voted for was a liberal Democrat who of course vocally supported all the things Romney now claims he's against — gay rights and abortion rights, to name just two.
And from this link...
....check out the remark about Romeny's preference for moderates.
"How do you think his wacky religious beliefs will play out to middle America?
As Jacob Weisberg of Slate.com put it in a recent blog. “I wouldn't vote for someone who truly believed in the founding whoppers of Mormonism. The LDS church holds that Joseph Smith, directed by the angel Moroni, unearthed a book of golden plates buried in a hillside in Western New York in 1827. The plates were inscribed in "reformed" Egyptian hieroglyphics—a nonexistent version of the ancient language that had yet to be decoded,” he wrote. “Smith was able to dictate his "translation" of the Book of Mormon first by looking through diamond-encrusted decoder glasses and then by burying his face in a hat with a brown rock at the bottom of it. He was an obvious con man. Romney has every right to believe in con men, but I want to know if he does, and if so, I don't want him running the country.”
PS you can't call me a religious bigot. I base my opinion of his religious beliefs upon experience. I am an unbelieving member of the LDS church. THEY call me a lying apostate....you be the judge."
Jacob Weisberg hardly represents middle america. He's a flaming, lefty, secularist, wacko who wants all religion obliterated. Did you actuall read the article? The part where he actually made the inane argument that while he found traditional Christianity ridiculous as well, it was more acceptable because it'd been around longer? Or the part where he considered "Christians" acceptable because they didn't actually believe the truths of the Bible, but rather viewed it as metaphor? Could have fooled me. We see quite clearly what type of religion men like Weisberg favor. And what adopting their absurd arguments as our own inevitably leads to: a society filled with secularists and Christians who believe the Bible has some "nice ideas".
What the hell is Mormangate?
I agree. I never said Jacob Weisberg was middle America. But many middle Americans will read his words.
I think the leftist MSM will absolutely use Mormonism, and anything else they may find out about Romney, to the utmost of their ability to defeat him, should he make it past the primary.
OK, as Independent in 1992 you could chose Bush or Buchanan (with that one pretty much gauranteed to be Bush) or vote against Bill Clinton in the Democrat primary.
Had I been one year older, this would have been a no brainer to me. Although by the time Ohio rolled around, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown was the protest vote against Slick Willie 42.
Someone, anyone, please pay me
Not you, John McCain.
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