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Mitt Romney's symbolic appeals to conservative Republicans. Tribal Warfare {FR mentioned]
The New Republic ^
| February 21, 2007
| Rick Perlstein
Posted on 02/21/2007 7:39:36 PM PST by Torie
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To: Mount Athos; Torie; maui_hawaii
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I haven't seen this many comments deleted since the Harriet Miers and Dubai port controversy days" maui_hawaii thinks that there are special rules for him. All the posts that were yanked were his. Constant personal attacks in his tag line.
To: LtdGovt
I think Romney is a conservative Republican who was pretending to be a liberal when he ran for office in Massachusetts. Wouldn't that be nice to have a stealth conservative. It's usually the other way around.
To: editor-surveyor; Mount Athos; Torie
No no.
This has been going on long before this thread.
It hit is boiling point tonight.
No matter how many times it was mentioned by myself or others to tone things down, never happened.
Admittedly I got pissed.
Most of the posts pulled were not attacks.
Only one, possibly two at the very end of the exchange.
The Mod for whatever reason pulled the others for their own reasons.
As for now, I am headed to bed.
To: editor-surveyor; Mount Athos; Torie
Not to mention that this thread is history in the making.
I have not had so much as one post edited in 6 years as a freeper.
To: Torie; All
Geez, at least Perlstein could have given credit for the
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To: areafiftyone
Allright, an AP hit piece!
The MSM has more acute RINOdar than we. Real RINO's don't get rinky-dink MSM hit pieces such as this. This proves that the MSM believes Romney is a conservative, and therefore must be roughed up.
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02/12/2007 11:34:46 AM PST by
Plutarch
To: LtdGovt
"I think Romney is a conservative.....pretending to be a liberal....in Mass.
Well, Bush is a moderate to liberal politician who pretended to be a conservative to get elected Governor twice here in Texas.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:40:47 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
To: EternalVigilance
"It was less than five years ago, (see how even you are having to fudge the truth for him?)"I don't have much time this evening as I have lots to do tomorrow. So 'til the morrow, this brief reply:
THE VIDEO IS DATED 2002. THIS IS 2007. Wow, some fudging I did for him.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:48:38 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(Rudy is a democrat in Republican drag.)
To: editor-surveyor
Well, then when Romney took the PUBLIC PRO CHOICE POSITION but privately had five children with his wife, I'd say his actions spoke louder then his words.
His faithful marriage to his wife of many years, and the so far intact marriages of those five children (which indicate he raised them to believe in the institution of marriage) also speak louder than his words. He has lived a most conservative life.
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posted on
02/21/2007 10:55:36 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(Rudy is a democrat in Republican drag.)
To: TAdams8591
October '02 to February '07 is less than four and a half years where I went to school.
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posted on
02/21/2007 11:07:19 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(The Talented Mr. Romney: It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody)
To: EternalVigilance
I watched it after your first link. This is now the third. I think you make a big deal out of not so much.
Taken as a whole, it seems he was promising not to change Mass. laws on abortion, in any direction, and that he has always supported a woman's right to choose, and that his personal beliefs or what he feels he or his family would choose personally may be different but should be kept personal. This is hardly the extreme pro-abort position you make it sound like. Basically, he was being attacked for his suspected personal misgivings on abortion rights, and responding that he had always supported them in the past and would not change the law as Governor. If I understand correctly, he kept that promise.
Today he seems to say we should emphasize life, and that he thinks it begins at conception, but we should let states decide the details--which means of course reversing Roe (and maybe resuscitating federalism a little). He also points out that this would leave Mass. in the same position as now, with pro-abortion laws continuing in force in a pro-abortion state. Not a fire-breathing pro-life position, but not that far from the man in the video either.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:01:33 AM PST
by
Joachim
To: Torie
If the Bush family backs Giuliani, something will be seriously wrong with the universe.
And may be reason to reevaluate either Giuliani or the Bushes.
To: Torie
(If)CA moves its primary up and everything we think we know about the nominating process becomes moot.
To: Torie
There isn't a bigger schmuck (term of art) then Richard Cohen of the Wash Post, but see his latest column on Romney- it shoots and scores.
To: Domandred; Torie
Consider the sarcastic reflection of this denizen of the right-wing website Free RepublicI'm not 100% sure, but I think I was the sarcastic freeper in question. Unless someone else has taken to saying RINOdar.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:49:23 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
To: George W. Bush
One of the reasons we lost in '06 was because we had become the party of big government. Voters couldn't see enough difference between big-government liberals and big-government conservatives.Voters did see a difference.
They turned out big government conservatives.
One big government party is enough.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:54:42 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
To: NeoCaveman
Not exactly. The survivors are more conservative than the previous GOP caucus. Clearly, we lost some good conservatives in the tidal wave. But the RINOs were hit much harder. There aren't many RINOs left in the House now.
To: Sabramerican
He sure did. The subject candidate in my view is a shameless salesman.
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posted on
02/22/2007 8:16:42 AM PST
by
Torie
(The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
To: NeoCaveman
Unless someone else has taken to saying RINOdar. How long have you used it? I figured I coined the term RINOdar, first used in this post, in January. I am hopeful that it will take its place in the FR Lexicon.
To: editor-surveyor
Probably that he's found an effective, and proper way to deal with the Drive-by-Media !! (Adopt their technique)Pulling a Romney is an effective technique? If that's the case, why is he at 3% in the polls?
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