Posted on 01/09/2007 6:41:03 PM PST by Reagan Man
With the 2008 presidential campaign looming just on the horizon, speculation about political fortunes abounds. On the Democrat side, Lady Hillary is waiting in the wings, and the media's profilers have found their fair-haired boy in Barack Obama. On the Republican side, the picture is murkier. Often the Vice-president would be the logical choice to carry the incumbent party's torch, but Dick Cheney won't be running and, even if he did, he wouldn't win. Of course, Arizona Senator John McCain is still around, but he arouses suspicion among conservatives. Seeming worn, tired, erratic and untrustworthy, many think the old soldier should just fade away.
Enter Mitt Romney. Inching ever closer to a presidential run, the former CEO and outgoing Governor of Massachusetts is emerging as the Barack Obama of the GOP. And the analogy is apt. He has the resonant voice, the good looks, the statesman-like bearing and, going Obama two better, great hair and unobtrusive ears.
But Romney shares another commonality with Obama: He's a liberal in his party masquerading as something more palatable. Yes, sugar and spice and dealing the deck twice, that's what little politicians are made of.
As to this point, another politico he can be compared to is Al Gore. Like Gore, Romney has flip-flopped on abortion, only in the other direction. While he now claims to be pro-life, he supported legalization of the "morning-after" abortion pill, RU-486. Moreover, as recently as his 2002 run for governor his platform stated,
"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."
Of course, Romney says that his views have "evolved." But I strongly suspect his adaptation relates more to the evolution of political ambitions than that of conscience. Call me cynical, but unless you've been cloistered in an ancient monastery for the duration, I'm very suspicious of deep personal growth occurring between ages 55 and 59.
According to Romney, unlike himself, the "paradigm" of marriage is not "evolving," and his high profile stand against anti-marriage has garnered him much publicity of late. But here, too, Romney has been about as consistent as March weather, with a track record that belies his newfound traditionalism.
In a letter to the Log Cabin Republicans, Romney hailed Bill Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy as a "step in the right direction" and "the first of a number of steps" toward homosexuals serving "openly" in the military.
Then, Brian Camenker points out the following in The Mitt Romney Deception:
- "Romney's campaign distributed pro-gay rights campaign literature during Boston's ‘Gay Pride' events," issuing pink fliers stating, "Mitt and Kerry [running mate Kerry Healey] wish you a great Pride weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference."
- Romney advocated governmental recognition of homosexual adoption rights, domestic partnerships and homosexual civil unions.
- Romney opposed the Boy Scouts' policy prohibiting homosexuals from serving as scoutmasters and prevented the organization from participating publicly in the 2002 Olympics.
- The Boston Globe wrote in 2005, "Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans, has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced, instead tapping registered Democrats or independents - including two gay lawyers who have supported expanded same-sex rights."
- Romney promoted homosexual propaganda in Massachusetts schools through the "Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth," funding this bureaucracy of social engineering instead of eliminating it.
Thus, it's no wonder that while campaigning against Ted Kennedy in 1994, Romney said that anti-marriage "is not appropriate at this time." My guess is that the time will be right when the electorate is left.
Equally damning, though, is that in a very ominous way he can be compared to yet another infamous poseur, Hillary Clinton. On April 12, 2006, Romney signed a bill into law that creates a universal health system intrusive enough to be the envy of socialists everywhere. The plan mandates that every Ma. resident must obtain health insurance by July 1, 2007, or face a fine that could exceed 1,200 dollars a year. Of course, this scheme includes the creation of a new bureaucracy, one that will, using Big Brother's infinite wisdom, determine how much you can afford to pay. Wow, thanks for the help, Mitt. Or, is it "Vinny the Chin"? I mean, this sounds like an offer you just can't refuse.
To justify his socialist brainchild, Romney uses the argument that it is no different from requiring people to carry car insurance. Ah, speciousness, thy name is Romney. Mr. Governor, you can choose not to own a car.
Everyone must have a body.
But remember this when Romney touts his credentials as a fiscal conservative. While he may boast of his steadfast refusal to raise taxes, it rings hollow when he turns around and mandates citizen expenditures and levies fines. But liberals are adept at revenue-raising sleight-of-hand; when another tax increase would raise voter ire, they simply deem it a toll, fine, fee or, I love this one, a "surcharge." I prefer honest theft myself.
President Bush is often excoriated for betraying his conservative base, a perception that contributes to poll numbers lower than Ted Kennedy's jowls. What is forgotten, however, is that while campaigning for the presidency in 2000, Bush accused the Republican Congress of trying ". . . to balance the budget on the backs of the poor," a line that could have been culled from Democrat talking points. Folks, the president never cast himself as anything but exactly what he is. We just weren't listening.
Are we listening now?
Ah, those Massachusetts liberals: Studds, Frank, Kennedy and Willard Mitt Romney. It just seems to roll off the tongue.
Bernie Sanders for veep, anyone?
Again, the Vagina Monologues is not a good reason to divorce if you believe in marriage as a sanctified union. My dad is conservative and my mom was very liberal. They managed to love one another until the end. If us simple peons can do it, why are the rich and powerful unable?
HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL! Hi ya, Luis. Some "thangs" never change....
It's a word? I think I was trying to say "disparaged" but maybe I'm wrong about that.........LOL.
I have worked with newborns, and preemies.
Its 40 weeks for a normal human gestation.
Take that to the bank
Which defense? That Bush was no different than Romney, or that the bill was as good as could be gotten from the MA legislature?
Not with the real world.
Sure. I'm 20 and unmarried. Never divorced. Oh yeah- I'm not running for office, especially one as important as the Presidency.
Neither.
Thank you very much for that honest view. I shall file that away as reference.
OK. I still don't quite understand the context of your outburst really. I think aborting fetuses who could survive outside the womb is akin to murder, and that obtains prior to 40 weeks. Color me confused.
Oh, sorry; did I strike a nerve?
BUMP for Mitt's accomplishments!
ROFLMAO.............THE BASE!
Rudy and his first wife's marriage was annulled, due to consanguinity and there was no issue.
His second wife, an harridan, shrew, and termagant, who was making his life an abject misery, long before he ever began to see his now third wife, is the one who threw Rudy out out Gracie Mansion and had NO leg to stand on, for being able to continue to live in the residence of the mayor of N.Y.C.!
Donna ( the second wife ) treated him very shabbily, while he was going through cancer treatments; she wouldn't allow him the full use of Gracie Mansion and had him consigned to a teensy study. She tried her best to keep all of his friends away from him. So what IF his then Judy stopped by, to see if he needed anything? After all, he was going through a divorce.
And no, he didn't tell Donna, through a press conference!
Good grief, what about when five years before, Donna refused to campaign with him, for his second run at the mayoralty, changed her name back to her maiden name, and then hung around with his political enemies and starred in THE VAGINA MONOLGUES, which was written by one of Hillary's great, good friends, when he was going up against Hillary for the vacant Senate seat.
Every candidate that I have ever worked for, with the exception of Gerald Ford and Patrick Ballantine has won.
Next question?
I am divorced; now don't you feel silly?
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